Math History Spotlights

Math History Spotlights

Highlighting the lives of some of histories greatest mathematicians. These episodes are created through the use of the great resources from https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies and Google's Notebook LLM. See more on https://www.mathhistoryspotlights.com/

Episodes

January 12, 2026 11 mins

The life of George Boole - The Inventor of Digital Logic


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boole/

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The life of Claude Elwood Shannon - The Father of the Bit.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Shannon/

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January 10, 2026 13 mins

The life of John von Neumann - Architect of the Modern World.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Von_Neumann/

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January 9, 2026 13 mins

The life of René Descartes - Analytical Geometry and Secret Life

Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Descartes/

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January 8, 2026 15 mins

The life of John Edensor Littlewood - Depression & Chaos.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Littlewood/

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January 7, 2026 15 mins

The life of Blaise Pascal - the 39 Year Sprint.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pascal/

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January 6, 2026 14 mins

The life of Andrei Andreyevich Markov - Chains and Challenging the Tsar.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Markov/

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January 5, 2026 14 mins

The life of Pierre de Fermat - Secret Double Life and Plague Career


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fermat/

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The life of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov - Probability, Turbulence, and Planetary Stability.

Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kolmogorov/

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January 3, 2026 12 mins

The life of G. H. Hardy - Pure Math and Creative Decline.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hardy/

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January 2, 2026 12 mins

The life of Hermann Minkowski - Geometry defined SpaceTime.

Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Minkowski/

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January 1, 2026 13 mins

The life of David Hilbert - The Mathematician Who Redefined Truth


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hilbert/

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January 1, 2026 12 mins

The life of Adrien-Marie Legendre - the Man Who Defined the Meter.

Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Legendre/

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December 31, 2025 12 mins

The life of Charles Babbage - Invented the Computer and We Missed It.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Babbage/

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The life of Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace) - Invented Computer Programming


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lovelace/

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December 29, 2025 12 mins

The life of Leonhard Euler - The Master of Us All.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Euler/

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December 28, 2025 12 mins

The life of Joseph Liouville - Science, Politics, and Galois.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Liouville/

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December 28, 2025 15 mins

The life of Évariste Galois - The Duelist Who Defined Algebra's Limits


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Galois/

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December 28, 2025 11 mins

The life of John Forbes Nash Jr. - Game Theory Genius and Madness


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nash/

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December 25, 2025 16 mins

The life of Jules Henri Poincaré - the Universalist Who Invented Chaos.


Sources:

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Poincare/

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