The Horrible Ways Mathematicians Have Died
A list of mathematicians who died under unfortunate or unfitting circumstances (note that these entries have been sorted by age at death): Évariste Galois, 20... Read more
Month: September 2017
Sofia Kovalevskaya: the woman who covered the walls of her room in theorems
When she was eleven years old, Sofia (sometimes called Sonja) Kovalevskaya covered the walls of her room in note sheets about differential and integral calculus by the Russian mathematician Mikhail... Read more