| Date |
Title |
First Line of Text ... |
| 11/15/2009 |
Mathematics Doing Non-Mathematics |
The answer to each of the following five question... |
| 11/8/2009 |
Nicolo Fountana Tartaglia |
Very poor, I was known as the "stutterer&quo... |
| 11/1/2009 |
Identify These Six Mathematicians... |
As a hint, their scrambled names in ... |
| 10/25/2009 |
James Joseph Sylvester |
The fact that I was Jewish caused me to have muti... |
| 10/18/2009 |
Regiomontanus |
Most people know me by the name Johannes Muller, ... |
| 10/11/2009 |
Nikola Ivanovich Lobachevsky |
At the University of Kazan, I studied mathematics... |
| 10/4/2009 |
Identify These Six Mathematicians... |
As a hint, their scrambled names in ... |
| 9/27/2009 |
Paul Cohen |
As a young boy in New York City, I was known as a... |
| 9/20/2009 |
John Todd |
Raised in Belfast, I studied mathematics at Cambr... |
| 9/13/2009 |
John Wallis |
In 1632, I entered Emmanuel College in Cambridge ... |
| 8/30/2009 |
Special Mathematicians Revisted |
To begin the school year, I am reprinting a "c... |
| 5/31/2009 |
Julius Plucker |
Due to the demand for my talents, I filled many m... |
| 5/24/2009 |
John Playfair |
The son of a Scottish minister, I went to the Uni... |
| 5/17/2009 |
Blaise Pascal |
My childhood was difficult because when my mother... |
| 5/10/2009 |
Pappus |
I authored the 8-volume Synagoge, which provided ... |
| 5/3/2009 |
Gaspard Monge |
The son of poor parents, I was educated in a loca... |
| 4/26/2009 |
Hermann Minkowski |
In short form, my ideas on the "principle of... |
| 4/19/2009 |
Pietro Mengoli |
In addition to being a clergyman my entire life, ... |
| 4/12/2009 |
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis |
At the age of 20, I resigned my commission as a C... |
| 3/29/2009 |
Marius Sophus Lie |
One of the rare Norwegian mathematicians of renow... |
| 3/22/2009 |
Pierre Simon Laplace |
Though a son of poor farmers, neighbors noticed m... |
| 3/15/2009 |
Samuel Klingenstierna |
Orphaned son of a major in Charles XII's army, I ... |
| 3/8/2009 |
John Machin (repeat) |
I was a Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College... |
| 3/1/2009 |
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi |
The son of a Berlin banker, I was "home-scho... |
| 2/22/2009 |
Christiaan Huygens |
The son of a famous father, I encountered Rene De... |
| 2/15/2009 |
Hipparchus |
Working as an astronomer in Rhodes, I invented i... |
| 2/8/2009 |
Sir John Frederick William Herschel |
Though I constantly lived in the shadow of my fat... |
| 2/1/2009 |
Thomas Harriot |
After gaining a degree at Oxford, I was sent by S... |
| 1/25/2009 |
John Hadley |
The son of a High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, I am ... |
| 1/18/2009 |
Eric Ivar Fredholm |
After recieving a doctorate in mathematics at the... |
| 1/11/2009 |
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
The son of a tailor, I was orphaned at age 8 but ... |
| 1/4/2009 |
Ronald Aylmer Fisher |
Though educated as a mathematician and physicist ... |
| 12/14/2008 |
Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon |
Heir to a large fortune, I was supposed to study ... |
| 12/7/2008 |
Daniel Bernoulli |
I am the third most famous member of the talented... |
| 11/30/2008 |
Albrecht Durer |
I am primarily known in the art world for my 70+ ... |
| 11/23/2008 |
Diophantus |
The only known things about my life are found in th... |
| 11/16/2008 |
Arthur Cayley |
After working 14 years as an English lawyer, I be... |
| 11/9/2008 |
Luitzen Egbertus Brouwer |
As a successful Dutch mathematician, I also recei... |
| 11/2/2008 |
Jacob Bernoulli |
Born in Basel, Switzerland, I began formally stud... |
| 10/26/2008 |
Girolamo Cardano |
Hampered by illegitimate status during my life, I... |
| 10/19/2008 |
William Brouncker |
Though a succssful doctor and hospital administra... |
| 10/12/2008 |
Jean Charles de Borda |
I began my career as a lawyer, but gave that up t... |
| 10/5/2008 |
Johann Bernoulli |
Born in Basel, Switzerland, I began studying medi... |
| 9/28/2008 |
Leone Battista Alberti |
One of the most gifted men of the Renaissance, I ... |
| 9/21/2008 |
Eugenio Beltrami |
Born in Italy, I first began studying mathematics... |
| 9/14/2008 |
Thomas Bayes |
Born in London as the son of a Nonconformist mini... |
| 9/7/2008 |
János Bolyai |
Born in Hungary, I was the son of a well-known ma... |
| 8/31/2008 |
Nicolas Bourbaki |
I was never born, but was fabricated as a prank i... |
| 6/15/2008 |
Charles Babbage |
Though my birthdate and place are disputed, it is... |
| 6/8/2008 |
Socrates |
Born to Greek parents, my student Plato described... |
| 6/1/2008 |
Florence Nightingale |
I was born in Italy, the second daughter of a ver... |
| 5/11/2008 |
Aristotle |
The son of the personal physician to King Amyntas... |
| 5/4/2008 |
Jean le Rond d'Alembert |
Born a illegitimate child in Paris of a writer an... |
| 4/27/2008 |
Joseph Weizenbaum |
I was born in Berlin in 1923 and died in the Unit... |
| 4/20/2008 |
Edward Norton Lorenz |
Though having studied mathematics at Dartmouth Co... |
| 4/13/2008 |
Samuel Karlin |
I was born in Poland in 1924 and died in the Unit... |
| 4/6/2008 |
Lorenzo Mascheroni |
Though ordained as a priest at age 17, I ended up... |
| 3/30/2008 |
Olga Tauskky-Todd |
Though my Autrian-Hungarian parents wanted my two... |
| 3/23/2008 |
Henrik Abel |
I was the son of a Norwegian pastor, one of many ... |
| 3/16/2008 |
Hermann Grassmann |
In school, I did not excel in any academic area, ... |
| 3/9/2008 |
John Hemmersley |
In my schooling, I turned to mathematics and scienc... |
| 3/2/2008 |
Zeno of Elea |
Little is known about my life, except that I was ... |
| 2/24/2008 |
Karl Weierstrass |
In college, I was forced by my dad to prepare to ... |
| 2/17/2008 |
Francois Viete |
I am considered to be the mathematician having th... |
| 2/10/2008 |
Pafnuty Chebyshev |
There are a myriad of different spellings for my ... |
| 2/3/2008 |
Jakob Steiner |
A pupil of both Pestalozzi and Jacobi, I was give... |
| 1/27/2008 |
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann |
As a boy, I was extrememly shy and suffered from ... |
| 1/20/2008 |
Luca Pacioli |
Though a friar monk, I also tutored the sons of a... |
| 1/13/2008 |
Isaac Newton |
I was born on Christmas Day...was a sickly boy br... |
| 12/30/2007 |
Gullaume F. A. de L'Hopital |
As a young French Marquis, I met Jean Bernoulli, ... |
| 12/16/2007 |
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi |
As a young student, I excelled and completed by s... |
| 12/9/2007 |
Heron of Alexandria |
I was an inventor and engineer, creating the firs... |
| 12/2/2007 |
Albert T. Bharucha-Reid |
As a black mathematician, my work was comparable ... |
| 11/25/2007 |
Kurt Godel |
I am regarded as one of the greatest logicians ev... |
| 11/18/2007 |
Augustus De Morgan |
I helped George Peacock create what is now known ... |
| 11/11/2007 |
Augustin-Louis Cauchy |
As a young student at the Ecole Polytechnique, I ... |
| 11/4/2007 |
George Boole |
Though born into a lower-class family, I improved... |
| 10/28/2007 |
Blind Mathematicians |
A slight deviance from the normal format. What co... |
| 10/21/2007 |
Archimedes of Syracuse |
Though I am often described as the leading mathem... |
| 10/14/2007 |
al-Biruni |
Through my book India, I made the Arab world fami... |
| 10/7/2007 |
Ralph P. Boas, Jr. |
I was born in Walla Walla (WA) and died in Seattl... |
| 9/30/2007 |
Sophie Germain |
My parents strongly discouraged me from exploring... |
| 9/23/2007 |
Jeffrey Renwick Weeks |
In the 12th grade, I read Abbott's Flatland and f... |
| 9/16/2007 |
J. Ernest Wilkens |
Following my parents who were graduates of the Un... |
| 9/9/2007 |
Majorie Lee Browne |
I was one of the first Afro-American women to rec... |
| 9/2/2007 |
Omar Khayyam |
A Persian poet and known as the "tentmaker,&... |
| 8/26/2007 |
Bieberbach |
Of German descent, I studied under Felix Klein at... |
| 6/17/2007 |
Nicomachus of Gerasa |
I was a puzzle to others -- a Neo-Pythagorean liv... |
| 6/10/2007 |
Colin Maclaurin |
I am recognized as the most outstanding British mat... |
| 6/3/2007 |
Johann Heinrich Lambert |
Of Swiss-German descent, I wrote broadly on both ma... |
| 5/27/2007 |
Leopold Kronecker |
While studying in Berlin, I interacted with Weierst... |
| 5/20/2007 |
Hermann Hankel |
I was a student of Riemann andf a professor of math... |
| 5/13/2007 |
James Gregory |
A Scotsman, I gained some fame by capitalizing on t... |
| 5/6/2007 |
Eratosthenes of Cyrene |
Raised in Athens, I was recognized widely for my st... |
| 4/29/2007 |
Abraham De Moivre |
Born a French Huguenot, I became a private math tut... |
| 4/22/2007 |
Georg Cantor |
As a son of Christian parents with Jewish backgroun... |
| 4/15/2007 |
Boethius |
In addition to being a mathematician and a philosop... |
| 4/8/2007 |
al-Khowarizmi |
I was a mathematician and an astronomer in Al-Mam... |
| 4/1/2007 |
Adrien Marie Legendre |
Some now claim that I was "the most tireless p... |
| 3/25/2007 |
Jan Lukasiewicz |
Born in Lwow, Poland, in 1878, I studied and taught... |
| 3/18/2007 |
Thomas Archer Hirst |
This picture of myself was sold on e-bay for $10 ... |
| 3/11/2007 |
John Machin |
I was a Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, ... |
| 3/4/2007 |
Johannes Muller |
Most people know me by the name Regiomontanus, from... |
| 2/25/2007 |
Zeno |
The first thing anyone knows about me (thanks to Pl... |
| 2/18/2007 |
Maria Agnesi |
I was the first of 21 children of a mathematics pro... |
| 2/11/2007 |
Marin Mersenne |
Though both a mathematician and a physicist, I was ... |
| 2/4/2007 |
Not a Mathematician But a Number....... |
In an appendix to John Napier's work on logarithms ... |
| 1/28/2007 |
Eudoxus |
My development of a general theory of proportions r... |
| 1/21/2007 |
Abu Kamil |
An Arabic author of math texts, I am often called... |
| 1/14/2007 |
Alan Turing |
Starting as a young boy who loved math problems a... |
| 1/7/2007 |
Apollonius of Perga |
Known as "The Great Geometer," I was bo... |
| 12/31/2006 |
William Elwood Byerly |
This week's mystery is difficult.......making it a ... |
| 12/17/2006 |
Olga Ladyzhenskaya |
The daughter of a high school mathematics teacher... |
| 12/10/2006 |
Antoni Zygmund |
My early plans to become an astronomer were inter... |
| 12/3/2006 |
David Blackwell |
As a young student, I loved games and geometry, b... |
| 11/26/2006 |
Andre Weil |
I fell in love with mathematics at an early age..... |
| 11/19/2006 |
Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones |
I was born and educated through the undergraduate... |
| 11/12/2006 |
Shiing-Shen Chern |
In 1930, I began my graduate work at Tsing Hua Un... |
| 11/5/2006 |
Mary Somerville |
Though now described as a self-educated Scotswoman,... |
| 10/29/2006 |
Liu Hui |
I was a Chinese mathematician, living in the 200s i... |
| 10/22/2006 |
Elbert Frank Cox |
My father was teacher and principal at a segregat... |
| 10/15/2006 |
Loo-Keng Hua |
Raised in poverty, I was a frail child, afflicted... |
| 10/8/2006 |
Jacques-Louis Lions |
I am known as the founder of the French school fo... |
| 10/1/2006 |
Hippocrates |
As a mathematician, I dominated the mathematical wo... |
| 9/24/2006 |
Charlotte Angas Scott |
I was the first British woman to earn a doctorate... |
| 9/17/2006 |
Joel E. Schneider |
Born in Lebanon (PA), I became interested in math... |
| 9/10/2006 |
Alexandre Grothendieck |
My father was a Russian Jew and my mother was a G... |
| 9/3/2006 |
Hans Freudenthal |
Born and traised in Germany, I took a mathematics... |
| 8/27/2006 |
Vivienne Malone-Mayes |
As a female African-American, I graduated from a ... |
| 6/25/2006 |
Paul Erdős |
I was a child prodigy...discovered negative numbers... |
| 6/18/2006 |
Richard Brauer |
Born in Berlin in 1901, I showed an early interest ... |
| 6/11/2006 |
Christian Goldbach |
I was a Professor of Mathematics and Historian at... |
| 6/4/2006 |
Henry Briggs |
In my time, I was one of the few scientists who c... |
| 5/28/2006 |
Pythagoras |
Donald Duck may disagree, but I did exist, even t... |
| 5/21/2006 |
Norbert Wiener |
At age 7, I started school in the 3rd grade...becam... |
| 5/14/2006 |
Serge Lang |
I was a mathematician, prolific author of 61 book... |
| 5/7/2006 |
George Green |
Though born to a baker in Nottingham, England, my b... |
| 4/30/2006 |
Jean Victor Poncelet |
Fighting as an engineer in Napolean's Grand Army ag... |
| 4/23/2006 |
Emmy Noether |
Raised in Erlangen, Germany, I trained to become a ... |
| 4/16/2006 |
John Pell |
Born in Sussex, England, I was an orphan by age 6... |
| 4/9/2006 |
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan |
My work on permutation groups and the theory of e... |
| 4/2/2006 |
George Pólya |
My brother Jenö loved mathematics and always regret... |
| 3/26/2006 |
Simon Stevin |
A Flemish mathematician from Bruges (Netherlands)... |
| 3/19/2006 |
Isaac Barrow |
Though a famous theologian, I was a mathematics p... |
| 3/12/2006 |
William Shanks |
I was the headmaster for a boarding school at Ho... |
| 3/5/2006 |
Joseph Lagrange |
Born in Turin, Sardinia-Piedmont, people still ar... |
| 2/26/2006 |
John Napier |
I helped poularize the Danish idea of prosthaphae... |
| 2/19/2006 |
George Berkeley |
I was a Dean in the Church of England in Ireland.... |
| 2/12/2006 |
valentine |
This may be a hard one...but he is connected to thi... |
| 2/5/2006 |
Girard Desargues |
Though I played with mathematics, I was an archit... |
| 1/29/2006 |
Robert Recorde |
In additon to writing many texts on mathematics a... |
| 1/22/2006 |
Claudius Ptolemy |
My name suggests that I descended from a Greek fa... |
| 1/15/2006 |
Henri Poincare |
I am ambidextrous and near-sighted, two traits wh... |
| 1/8/2006 |
John Nash |
In college, I often skipped lectures and didn’t r... |
| 1/1/2006 |
Felix Klein |
I held a chair in mathematics at Erlangen when I wa... |
| 12/16/2005 |
kepler |
My father, a mercenary soldier, died when I was fiv... |
| 11/27/2005 |
Hilbert |
I went to the University of Königsberg and remain... |
| 11/20/2005 |
Euclid |
Although my name sounds strange to modern mathem... |
| 11/13/2005 |
Maurits Cornelius Escher |
One of my relatives works as an electrician at We... |
| 11/6/2005 |
Albert Einstein |
My early education included violin lessons and ... |
| 10/18/2005 |
Enrico Fermi |
Italian descent
Types of number estimation p... |
| 10/2/2005 |
SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN |
Indian descent
Author of the Last Notebook
... |
| 9/25/2005 |
SOFIA KOVALEVSKY |
Russian descent
Wallpapered her room with ca... |
| 9/18/2005 |
AUGUST MÖBIUS |
German descent
Explored topology, barycentri... |
| 9/11/2005 |
ELVARITSE GALOIS |
French descent
A radical expelled from a tea... |
| 9/4/2005 |
WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON |
An Irish Knight
At age ten, fluent in Latin,... |
| 8/28/2005 |
LEONARD EULER |
Swiss descent
Friend of the Bernoulli clan
... |
| 8/21/2005 |
PIERRE DE FERMAT |
French descent
100% theorem-poser and 0% the... |
| 8/14/2005 |
CARL FREDERICH GAUSS |
German descent
Last complete mathematician
... |
| 8/7/2005 |
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ |
German descent
Prolific letter writer (to en... |
| 7/31/2005 |
RENE’ DESCARTES |
French descent
Sickly—slept late each mornin... |
| 7/24/2005 |
LEONARDO OF PISA |
Italian descent
Called Bigollo, meaning Trav... |
