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
The life of Claude Elwood Shannon - The Father of the Bit.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Shannon/
The life of John von Neumann - Architect of the Modern World.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Von_Neumann/
The life of René Descartes - Analytical Geometry and Secret Life
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Descartes/
The life of John Edensor Littlewood - Depression & Chaos.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Littlewood/
The life of Blaise Pascal - the 39 Year Sprint.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pascal/
The life of Andrei Andreyevich Markov - Chains and Challenging the Tsar.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Markov/
The life of Pierre de Fermat - Secret Double Life and Plague Career
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fermat/
The life of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov - Probability, Turbulence, and Planetary Stability.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kolmogorov/
The life of G. H. Hardy - Pure Math and Creative Decline.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hardy/
The life of Hermann Minkowski - Geometry defined SpaceTime.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Minkowski/
The life of David Hilbert - The Mathematician Who Redefined Truth
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hilbert/
The life of Adrien-Marie Legendre - the Man Who Defined the Meter.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Legendre/
The life of Charles Babbage - Invented the Computer and We Missed It.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Babbage/
The life of Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace) - Invented Computer Programming
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lovelace/
The life of Leonhard Euler - The Master of Us All.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Euler/
The life of Joseph Liouville - Science, Politics, and Galois.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Liouville/
The life of Évariste Galois - The Duelist Who Defined Algebra's Limits
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Galois/
The life of John Forbes Nash Jr. - Game Theory Genius and Madness
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nash/
The life of Jules Henri Poincaré - the Universalist Who Invented Chaos.
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Poincare/
The life of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss - The Prince of Mathematics
Sources:
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gauss/
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