Biographies – Maths Society

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss — The Father of Arithmetic Progression. He was a German child genius who went on to become one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, and thanks to him we can now easily find the sum of an arithmetic sequence. How did he do it?

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Matt Parker

Matt Parker is an Australian-born author, comedian and mathematician, known for talking and writing about the funny side of numbers, most famously in his bestseller Humble Pi. He also produced a beautiful introductory video for the Maths Society, where he gave us an interesting conundrum to figure out. Interested?

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a self-taught genius, born in India struggling to make a life for himself in the city then called Madras. However, his employers soon notice his mathematical talents, and he starts to contact professors of mathematics by writing letters to them. And one of them starts to notice him…

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William Rowan Hamilton

William Rowan Hamilton is one of the unsung heroes of modern physics and linear algebra, having introduced vectors, scalars and quaternions to the world. He also made major contributions to optics, classical mechanics and abstract algebra, as well as speaking a dozen languages by the time he was 13! Want to know more?

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Leonardo Fibonacci

Leonardo Fibonacci was an Italian, widely regarded as the ‘most talented western mathematician of the Middle Ages’, whose study of the population growth of rabbits led to the development of the Fibonacci Sequence.