Which mathematical genius are you?
Mathematics is the science and study of quality, structure, space, and change. Though some of us may not like the subject, we have to understand that it is crucial to everything we do in life. From shopping to eating to running and driving everything involves calculations.
Let us look at some of the great mathematicians.
Pythagoras was a famous Greek mathematician and philosopher. He is best known best for the proof of the important Pythagorean theorem, which is about right angle triangles.
Hypatia of Alexandria created history by being the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics. She was taught by her father Theon, a mathematician and philosopher.
Srinivasa Ramanujam had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.
Maryam Mirzakhani was born in Iran and she made exceptional contributions to the study of the dynamics and geometry of mathematical objects called Riemann surfaces. She was a professor at Stanford University and held a PhD from Harvard University. In 2014, she was the first woman, and first Iranian, to be awarded a Fields Medal (also known as the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics).
Shakuntala Devi was also known as “the human computer” for her ability to perform lengthy calculations in her head, swiftly.
Ian Stewart is an emeritus professor in the math department at Warwick University and an emeritus professor at Gresham College, London. He has done great work in promoting math to non-mathematicians. He also writes science fiction.
Now try this for-fun-only personality quiz to see which kind of mathematician you are.