Choose a mathematician to study their life and contributions. Each track brings together individual posts with proofs, images and interactive figures.

  • Leonhard Euler: biography, mathematical language and nine discoveries.

  • René Descartes: biography, six discoveries and studies on the idea of function.

  • Carl Friedrich Gauss: biography and ten discoveries.

  • Isaac Newton: biography, seven contributions, proofs and interactive figures.

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: biography, calculus, binary arithmetic, the calculating machine and logic.

  • Pierre de Fermat: biography, number theory, geometry, probability and optics.

  • Blaise Pascal: biography, combinatorics, probability, conics, machines and physical experiments.

  • Joseph-Louis Lagrange: biography, calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, the Lagrange points, number theory and algebra.

  • Sophie Germain: biography, the letters to Gauss as Monsieur Le Blanc, the theorem on Fermat, the primes that bear her name and vibrating plates.

  • James (Jakob) Bernoulli: biography, probability, the law of large numbers, compound interest, Bernoulli numbers and curves.

  • Albert Einstein: biography, relativity, mass and energy, the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and gravitation.

  • Johann Bernoulli: biography, the brachistochrone, l’Hôpital’s rule, the catenary and logarithmic differentiation.

  • Euclid of Alexandria: the Elements, postulates, constructions, the greatest common divisor, infinitely many primes and parallels.

  • James Clerk Maxwell: biography, electromagnetism, light, molecular speeds and colours.

  • John Nash: biography, equilibrium, mixed strategies, bargaining, geometry and differential equations.

  • Niels Henrik Abel: biography, the fifth-degree equation, the binomial series, elliptic functions, the lemniscate and abelian groups.

  • Évariste Galois: biography, the group of an equation, the symmetries of the triangle, solving by radicals, finite fields and the impossible constructions.

  • John Napier: biography, the two progressions, the definition of logarithms, Briggs and base 10, Napier’s bones and the slide rule.

  • Alan Turing: biography, the Turing machine, the halting problem, computable numbers, the universal machine, the Enigma, Banburismus, the imitation game and morphogenesis.