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Mathematical Physics · 17 videos

Augustin Fresnel His lens is in every lighthouse and overhead projector on Earth January 9 · b. 1788

André-Marie Ampère The unit of electric current — the amp — bears his name forever January 20 · b. 1775

Theodor Kaluza He added one extra dimension and nearly unified all of physics January 31 · b. 1885

Max Planck He accidentally started the quantum revolution with one equation April 23 · b. 1858

James Clerk Maxwell He wrote four equations — and proved that light is electromagnetic September 15 · b. 1831

Henry Moseley He proved the periodic table's real order — using X-ray mathematics February 27 · b. 1887

Gustav Kirchhoff His two laws govern every electrical circuit ever built March 12 · b. 1824

Augustin-Jean Fresnel He solved the mystery of light with wave mathematics — and invented the lightho… May 10 · b. 1788

George Gabriel Stokes His equation governs every fluid on Earth — we still can't fully solve it May 14 · b. 1819

Pierre Curie He discovered the effect that makes your phone's touchscreen work May 15 · b. 1859

Paul Dirac He predicted antimatter by solving an equation — before anyone had ever seen it May 28 · b. 1902

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis He discovered the force that makes hurricanes spin — just by doing the mathemat… May 30 · b. 1792

Lord Kelvin He defined the coldest possible temperature — using thermodynamics mathematics June 26 · b. 1824

Lise Meitner She calculated nuclear fission — but the Nobel was given to her male colleague June 30 · b. 1878

Roger Penrose He tiled an infinite plane without ever repeating — then won the Nobel Prize August 8 · b. 1931

Erwin Schrödinger His cat is both alive and dead — quantum mathematics says both answers are simu… August 12 · b. 1887

Michael Faraday He invented the electric generator — and couldn't do the mathematics himself September 22 · b. 1791

Applied Mathematics · 10 videos

Benjamin Franklin He made magic squares to amuse himself — they still baffle mathematicians January 17 · b. 1706

James Watt He defined horsepower — a unit still used to sell cars today January 19 · b. 1736

Nikola Tesla His math lights up every home on Earth July 10 · b. 1856

Ernst Werner von Siemens His name became a unit of measurement — the highest honour in science February 18 · b. 1816

Yuri Gagarin He trusted mathematics enough to ride a rocket into orbit March 9 · b. 1934

Wilbur Wright He cracked the mathematics of flight — and flew 12 seconds into history April 16 · b. 1867

Guglielmo Marconi He sent the first radio signal across the Atlantic — using Maxwell's equations April 25 · b. 1874

Johns Hopkins He founded the university that invented the modern research hospital May 19 · b. 1795

John D. Rockefeller He built an oil empire using logistics mathematics — the first supply chain opt… July 8 · b. 1839

Neil Armstrong He landed on the Moon by trusting mathematics absolutely August 5 · b. 1930

Number Theory · 9 videos

Ernst Kummer When numbers weren't enough, he invented new ones January 29 · b. 1810

Adrien-Marie Legendre His least-squares method is inside every data model on Earth February 5 · b. 1752

G.H. Hardy He received a letter and discovered the greatest self-taught mathematician in h… February 7 · b. 1877

Marin Mersenne His primes are used to protect every password on the internet February 9 · b. 1588

Fibonacci He brought the numbers we use today to Europe — from a trip to North Africa February 13 · b. 1170

Christian Goldbach He made a simple addition claim in 1742 — nobody has proved it yet March 18 · b. 1690

Andrew Wiles He secretly proved maths' greatest 358-year-old mystery — alone in his attic April 11 · b. 1953

Srinivasa Ramanujan He taught himself all of mathematics from a single book July 22 · b. 1887

Pierre de Fermat He scribbled a problem in a book margin and it took 358 years to solve August 17 · b. 1601

Mathematical Logic · 8 videos

Alfred Tarski He proved you can't define truth using only itself — mathematics goes deeper th… January 14 · b. 1901

Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland is secretly a mathematics textbook January 27 · b. 1832

Dana Scott He made programming languages mathematically honest February 1 · b. 1932

Kurt Gödel He proved there are math problems that can never be solved March 17 · b. 1906

Bertrand Russell He wrote a 3-volume book just to prove 1+1=2 May 2 · b. 1872

Alonzo Church His math created the programming languages that run the internet June 12 · b. 1903

Giuseppe Peano He wrote the rules that proved 1+1=2 August 27 · b. 1858

George Boole He gave us the maths that every computer uses — 0s and 1s September 16 · b. 1815

Mathematical Music · 8 videos

Johannes Brahms Every chord is a mathematical ratio of vibrating air May 7 · b. 1833

Erik Satie He wrote a piece meant to be played 840 times. That's maths disguised as music June 15 · b. 1866

Igor Stravinsky His music is so mathematically complex that the premiere caused a riot June 17 · b. 1882

Gustav Mahler His symphonies are so mathematically structured they took entire evenings to pe… July 7 · b. 1860

Madonna Every electronic pop song is built from mathematical sine waves added together August 16 · b. 1958

Claude Debussy He divided the octave into equal mathematical parts — creating a new sound August 22 · b. 1862

Van Morrison Celtic soul is built on ancient mathematical ratios — the same fractions Pythag… August 31 · b. 1945

Antonín Dvořák His New World Symphony is built on mathematical scales from both African and Eu… September 8 · b. 1841

Mathematics · 6 videos

Isaac Barrow He was Newton's teacher — and gave up his professorship for his student January 10 · b. 1630

Hugo Steinhaus He turned cake-cutting into a deep mathematical theorem April 10 · b. 1887

Maria Gaetana Agnesi She wrote the mathematics textbook that taught an entire generation — at age 20 May 16 · b. 1718

Katharine Johnson John Glenn refused to fly until she personally verified the computer's calculat… June 16 · b. 1918

Terence Tao The highest IQ ever measured — and he won the Fields Medal before turning 32 July 17 · b. 1975

Katherine Johnson NASA astronauts refused to fly until she manually verified the computer's maths August 26 · b. 1918

Analysis · 5 videos

Augustin-Louis Cauchy He wrote 789 papers — the most prolific mathematician in history January 3 · b. 1789

Joseph Fourier Every song, photo, and MRI scan uses his math March 21 · b. 1768

Dmitry Egorov He proved when infinite sequences of functions converge — and it changed analys… February 10 · b. 1869

Karl Weierstrass He made calculus truly rigorous — and found a curve everywhere continuous but n… February 23 · b. 1815

Maclaurin (Colin) He showed every smooth function is secretly an infinite sum May 3 · b. 1698

Mathematical Astronomy · 5 videos

John Couch Adams He found a planet using only maths — without ever looking through a telescope January 21 · b. 1819

Urbain Le Verrier He discovered a planet with pencil and paper — before anyone looked through a t… March 11 · b. 1811

Caroline Herschel She discovered 8 comets and became the first paid female scientist March 16 · b. 1750

Tobias Mayer He solved the longitude problem that had baffled sailors for centuries March 19 · b. 1723

Christoph Scheiner He invented the device that copies drawings at any scale — geometry made mechan… July 2 · b. 1573

Mathematical Art · 5 videos

M.C. Escher His art is mathematically impossible — and perfectly correct June 18 · b. 1898

Albrecht Dürer His 500-year-old engraving contains a magic square that still amazes mathematic… May 21 · b. 1471

Lillian Schwartz She was the first to make art with a computer — back when computers filled rooms June 20 · b. 1927

Edgar Degas He painted motion mathematically — each ballet dancer is a study in differentia… July 19 · b. 1834

Gino Severini He painted motion by overlapping positions in time — calculus in oil paint August 24 · b. 1883

Special Day · 4 videos

New Year of Math The calendar itself is a 2000-year-old maths problem January 1

Groundhog Day Math Groundhog predictions are 39% accurate — maths does better February 2

Pi Day Why does 3.14 show up EVERYWHERE in math? March 14

Donald Duck Day Even cartoons can teach the golden ratio June 9

Statistics · 4 videos

Herbert Robbins His algorithm is why every AI learns — step by tiny step January 16 · b. 1915

Karl Pearson He invented the statistics that run every scientific experiment March 27 · b. 1857

Florence Nightingale She used pie charts to convince governments to save lives May 20 · b. 1820

Francis Galton He invented correlation and regression — the foundations of data science April 7 · b. 1822

Mathematical Chemistry · 3 videos

Dmitri Mendeleev He organised all matter using numbers — and predicted elements no one had seen … January 2 · b. 1834

Linus Pauling The only person to win unshared Nobel Prizes in two different fields February 28 · b. 1901

Joseph Priestley He discovered oxygen — and helped invent quantitative chemistry March 13 · b. 1733

Geometry · 3 videos

Nikolai Lobachevsky He broke Euclid's 2000-year monopoly on geometry January 6 · b. 1792

Maryam Mirzakhani Fields She won math's highest honour — and doodled equations on the floor August 6 · b. 1977

John Playfair He rewrote Euclid's most controversial axiom — and opened the door to new geome… March 7 · b. 1748

Astronomy & Mathematics · 3 videos

Edmund Halley He saw a comet and predicted it would return 76 years later — and he was right January 12 · b. 1656

Nicolaus Copernicus He used math to move Earth out of the center of the universe February 19 · b. 1473

Ole Rømer He measured the speed of light in 1676 — using Jupiter's moons as a clock March 5 · b. 1644

Mathematical Biology · 3 videos

Casimir Funk He named vitamins — and proved math governs what our bodies need March 4 · b. 1884

James Watson The mathematical structure of DNA encodes every living thing on Earth April 6 · b. 1928

Beatrix Potter The creator of Peter Rabbit was also a serious mycologist who counted spores July 28 · b. 1866

Mathematics & Physics · 3 videos

Christiaan Huygens He proved light is a wave and invented the precision clock — both using mathema… April 14 · b. 1629

Alexis Clairaut He calculated the exact shape of the Earth — using only mathematics May 13 · b. 1713

Marquise du Châtelet She translated Newton and corrected him — proving women belonged at the frontie… June 2 · b. 1706

Mathematical Geography · 3 videos

Edmund Hillary He climbed a mountain whose exact height was calculated by mathematicians in In… July 20 · b. 1919

Simón Bolívar He liberated an entire continent — and used mathematical logistics to do it July 24 · b. 1783

Alexander von Humboldt He mapped the world's temperature with contour lines — the same maths as topogr… September 14 · b. 1769

Group Theory · 2 videos

Camille Jordan He proved that a closed curve always has an inside and outside — obvious, but i… January 5 · b. 1838

Évariste Galois (letter day) He died at 20 — but his mathematics lives in every physics textbook April 5 · b. 1811

Probability · 2 videos

Emile Borel He proved an infinite monkey will type Shakespeare — eventually January 7 · b. 1871

Abraham de Moivre He invented the bell curve — which might describe your last test scores May 26 · b. 1667

Theoretical Physics · 2 videos

Stephen Hawking He couldn't write but he solved the universe January 8 · b. 1942

Albert Einstein The most famous equation in history is just multiplication March 14 · b. 1879

Analysis & Mechanics · 2 videos

Sofia Kovalevskaya She hid math books under her wallpaper as a child January 15 · b. 1850

Joseph-Louis Lagrange His multipliers are hidden inside every AI that learns January 24 · b. 1736

Topology · 2 videos

Grigori Perelman He solved a million-dollar problem — then refused the prize January 18 · b. 1966

Emmy Murphy She studies geometry that bends and stretches in ways you can't visualize March 22 · b. 1984

Abstract Algebra · 2 videos

Arthur Cayley He invented matrices — the maths inside every video game and AI January 28 · b. 1821

Emmy Noether Einstein called her the most significant creative mathematical genius March 23 · b. 1882

Complex Analysis · 2 videos

Gaston Julia He invented infinite beauty using one equation February 3 · b. 1893

Adolf Hurwitz He extended complex multiplication to four dimensions — the maths inside 3D gra… April 20 · b. 1859

Almost Everything · 2 videos

Leonhard Euler He invented the symbols your kids use in math class every day April 15 · b. 1707

Carl Friedrich Gauss At age 8 he found a shortcut that still amazes mathematicians April 30 · b. 1777

Computer Science · 2 videos

Alan Turing He built a machine to crack a code and accidentally invented the computer June 23 · b. 1912

Tim Berners-Lee He invented the internet you're using right now — and gave it away for free June 8 · b. 1955

Mathematical Invention · 2 videos

Thomas Edison He held 1,093 patents — and every one used mathematics February 11 · b. 1847

Elias Howe He invented the sewing machine by solving a geometric mathematics problem September 2 · b. 1819

Algebraic Geometry · 2 videos

Alexander Grothendieck He rebuilt all of algebraic geometry from scratch — then walked away from mathe… March 28 · b. 1928

Charlotte Angas Scott She outscored all the men at Cambridge — but couldn't officially graduate April 21 · b. 1858

Mathematical Philosophy · 2 videos

Immanuel Kant The philosopher who made mathematics a central puzzle of human knowledge April 22 · b. 1724

Jean-Paul Sartre Even existentialism has mathematics — the empty set is the philosophical void June 21 · b. 1905

Computing · 2 videos

Howard Aiken He built the first room-sized calculator — and it helped win World War II May 9 · b. 1900

Konrad Zuse He built the world's first working programmable computer — in Nazi Germany, sec… June 22 · b. 1910

Mathematical Poetry · 2 videos

Federico García Lorca Even a poet counts — rhythm, metre, and structure are mathematics June 5 · b. 1898

Mary Oliver A Pulitzer Prize poet who counted every detail of nature — mathematics as wonder September 10 · b. 1935

Mathematical Rhythm · 2 videos

Judy Garland Perfect timing is mathematics — every beat is a fraction June 10 · b. 1922

Mick Jagger Every drumbeat is a fraction — rock music is applied mathematics June 24 · b. 1943

Mathematical Imagination · 2 videos

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Even The Little Prince is about mathematics — stars are points of light you nav… June 29 · b. 1900

Mary Shelley Frankenstein asks: if we know all the equations, can we create life? It's a mat… August 30 · b. 1797

Mathematical Language · 2 videos

Gertrude Stein The art she championed was secretly doing higher-dimensional mathematics July 4 · b. 1874

Samuel Johnson He defined 40,000 words — the greatest counting project in the history of langu… September 18 · b. 1709

Mathematical Navigation · 2 videos

Roald Amundsen He reached the South Pole first because his mathematics was better July 16 · b. 1872

Herman Melville Even Moby Dick is full of mathematics — navigation, geometry, and obsessive cou… August 1 · b. 1819

Engineering Mathematics · 2 videos

Herbert Hoover Before becoming President he was a mining engineer using probability mathematics August 10 · b. 1874

Ferdinand Porsche He designed both the Volkswagen and the Porsche — using the same equations September 3 · b. 1875

Mathematical Dance · 2 videos

Gene Kelly Every tap step is a mathematical pattern — timing, symmetry, and spatial geomet… August 23 · b. 1912

Michael Jackson The moonwalk is a mathematical illusion — subtraction of two motions in opposit… August 29 · b. 1958

Physics & Calculus · 1 video

Isaac Newton The apple didn't invent gravity — Newton did the math January 4 · b. 1643

Algebra & Mechanics · 1 video

William Hamilton He carved a new number system into a bridge in a flash of inspiration January 11 · b. 1805

Mathematical Cartography · 1 video

Gerardus Mercator He bent a sphere into a flat map — and every sailor used it for 500 years January 13 · b. 1512

Foundations of Mathematics · 1 video

David Hilbert He listed 23 problems that kept math busy for 100 years January 22 · b. 1862

History of Mathematics · 1 video

Joseph Needham He discovered that Chinese maths was 1000 years ahead of Europe January 25 · b. 1900

Calculus · 1 video

Johann Bernoulli He taught the greatest mathematician in history — through letters January 26 · b. 1667

Fluid Dynamics · 1 video

Daniel Bernoulli The math that keeps every plane in the sky February 8 · b. 1700

Physics & Astronomy · 1 video

Galileo Galilei He dropped two balls and changed physics forever February 15 · b. 1564

Analytic Geometry · 1 video

René Descartes He invented the graph while lying in bed watching a fly February 17 · b. 1596

Algebra · 1 video

Niels Abel He solved the equation nobody thought could be solved — and proved it can't February 22 · b. 1802

Set Theory · 1 video

Georg Cantor He proved that some infinities are bigger than others March 1 · b. 1845

Art & Geometry · 1 video

Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel is secretly a geometry lesson March 6 · b. 1475

Combinatorics · 1 video

Paul Erdős He proved things exist without ever finding them — maths magic March 25 · b. 1913

Number Theory & Physics · 1 video

Sophie Germain She studied math secretly at night and changed number theory April 1 · b. 1776

Ancient Mathematics · 1 video

Bhāskara II He wrote the world's oldest maths textbook — in poetry April 4 · b. 1114

Geometry & Topology · 1 video

Maryam Mirzakhani The first woman to win the Nobel Prize of mathematics April 18 · b. 1977

Software Mathematics · 1 video

Margaret Hamilton Her code landed humans on the Moon — and she invented the term 'software engine… April 24 · b. 1936

Art & Math · 1 video

Salvador Dalí His most famous paintings are secretly math May 11 · b. 1904

Game Theory · 1 video

John Nash His math runs global economics — and was in A Beautiful Mind May 23 · b. 1928

Probability & Geometry · 1 video

Blaise Pascal He built the world's first calculator at age 18 June 1 · b. 1623

Recreational Mathematics · 1 video

Martin Gardner He made maths fun for 25 years — in a magazine column read by millions June 25 · b. 1914

Topology & Physics · 1 video

Henri Poincaré He discovered chaos 100 years before anyone used the word June 28 · b. 1854

Calculus & Logic · 1 video

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz He invented the language all computers speak July 1 · b. 1646

Logic & Probability · 1 video

John Venn He drew circles that changed how we think forever August 4 · b. 1834

Mathematical Analysis · 1 video

Mary Cartwright She discovered chaos while working on radar in WWII September 1 · b. 1900

Analysis & Geometry · 1 video

Bernhard Riemann His unsolved problem is worth 1 million dollars — and counting September 17 · b. 1826

Logic & Mathematics · 1 video

Charles Sanders Peirce The philosopher who turned logic into algebra February 4 · b. 1839

Mathematics of Nature · 1 video

Charles Darwin He explained all life with one mathematical idea: exponential change February 12 · b. 1809

Physics & Mathematics · 1 video

Ernst Mach Every fighter jet owes its speed calculations to him February 16 · b. 1838

Statistical Physics · 1 video

Ludwig Boltzmann His equation is carved on his tombstone — that's how important it was February 20 · b. 1844

Mathematics & Navigation · 1 video

Nathaniel Bowditch His math book is still used by the US Navy — 200 years later February 21 · b. 1773

Physics · 1 video

Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien He figured out how to measure a star's temperature from its colour February 24 · b. 1864

Probability & Analysis · 1 video

Émile Borel He built the mathematical foundation that all probability theory rests on February 26 · b. 1871

Numerical Analysis · 1 video

Carl David Tolmé Runge His method lets computers solve equations they can't solve analytically March 2 · b. 1856

Mathematics & Astronomy · 1 video

Benjamin Banneker A self-taught Black mathematician who surveyed Washington D.C. and published hi… March 10 · b. 1731

Mathematical Astrophysics · 1 video

Fred Hoyle He discovered where every atom in your body was made — inside a star March 20 · b. 1915

Functional Analysis · 1 video

Stefan Banach He proved you can cut a ball into pieces and reassemble it into two identical b… March 30 · b. 1892

Problem Solving · 1 video

George Pólya He wrote the book on how to solve maths problems — literally April 3 · b. 1887

Differential Geometry · 1 video

Élie Cartan He unified geometry and algebra — and Einstein used his work for general relati… April 9 · b. 1869

Computing & AI · 1 video

Alan Turing (test day) He invented the computer as a mathematical idea — before electronics existed April 12 · b. 1912

Literature & Mathematics · 1 video

Samuel Beckett Even playwrights hide mathematics — his plays are built on logical structures April 13 · b. 1906

Nuclear Mathematics · 1 video

Glenn Seaborg He discovered 10 new elements — more than any other scientist in history April 19 · b. 1912

Mathematical Naturalism · 1 video

John James Audubon He catalogued every bird in America — one of history's greatest counting projec… April 26 · b. 1785

Probability & Physics · 1 video

Siméon Denis Poisson He gave statistics the tool to count rare events — from earthquakes to email ar… May 4 · b. 1781

Mathematical Psychology · 1 video

Sigmund Freud Even the study of dreams uses mathematics May 6 · b. 1856

Computational Mathematics · 1 video

Gary Kasparov When he lost to Deep Blue, mathematics officially beat human intuition May 8 · b. 1963

Chaos Theory · 1 video

Edward Lorenz He discovered the butterfly effect — and proved long-range weather forecasting … May 17 · b. 1917

Mathematical Geology · 1 video

Mary Anning A self-taught woman who discovered fossils that proved extinction — and changed… May 22 · b. 1799

Mathematics of Empire · 1 video

Queen Victoria Her reign was the golden age of British mathematics — Babbage, Boole, and Maxwe… May 24 · b. 1819

Mathematics Communication · 1 video

Ian Stewart He's written 80 books proving mathematics is everywhere — even in a leopard's s… May 25 · b. 1945

Mathematical Ecology · 1 video

Rachel Carson She used mathematics to prove pesticides were poisoning the entire food chain May 27 · b. 1907

Mathematics of Language · 1 video

Walt Whitman Even poetry can be a mathematical pattern — he proved it with every line May 31 · b. 1819

Mathematical Narrative · 1 video

Franz Kafka His stories are logical paradoxes disguised as nightmares June 3 · b. 1883

Agricultural Mathematics · 1 video

George Washington Carver He turned a humble peanut into 300 products — using systematic mathematical thi… June 4 · b. 1864

Mathematical Structure · 1 video

Thomas Mann His novels use entropy and time dilation as literary devices — physics as metap… June 6 · b. 1875

Mathematical Mysticism · 1 video

W.B. Yeats He described history as a mathematical spiral — and won the Nobel Prize for it June 13 · b. 1865

Mathematical Medicine · 1 video

Alois Alzheimer He counted the plaques in a dying woman's brain — and described the disease tha… June 14 · b. 1864

Mathematical Perseverance · 1 video

Helen Keller She learned mathematics without sight or hearing — proving math lives in pure t… June 27 · b. 1880

Logical Structure · 1 video

Franz Kafka (birthday eve) His novels describe the experience of being inside a logical paradox July 3 · b. 1883

Mathematics & Mysticism · 1 video

John Dee He was mathematician, astrologer, and spy — and wrote the preface that brought … July 6 · b. 1527

Electrical Mathematics · 1 video

Nikola Tesla (patent day) His AC motor patent changed how the world consumes electricity July 9 · b. 1856

Mathematical Statecraft · 1 video

John Quincy Adams He used mathematics to survey and define the borders of the United States July 11 · b. 1767

Mathematical Architecture · 1 video

Buckminster Fuller He designed a dome that covers more space with less material than any other str… July 12 · b. 1895

Mathematical Literature · 1 video

Wole Soyinka Even African oral tradition is built on mathematical patterns July 13 · b. 1934

Ballistic Mathematics · 1 video

Gerald Bull He calculated how to shoot a shell into space using only a gun and mathematics July 14 · b. 1928

Mathematical Justice · 1 video

Nelson Mandela Even ending apartheid used game theory — mathematics of fair negotiation July 18 · b. 1918

Mathematical Prose · 1 video

Ernest Hemingway His writing style is mathematics — remove everything unnecessary, keep only the… July 21 · b. 1899

Mathematical Calendar · 1 video

Haile Selassie His nation uses a different mathematical calendar — 13 months instead of 12 July 23 · b. 1892

Mathematical Crystallography · 1 video

Rosalind Franklin Her X-ray photograph revealed the structure of DNA — and wasn't credited for de… July 25 · b. 1920

Mathematical Satire · 1 video

George Bernard Shaw He wrote Pygmalion — a play about turning measurements into music July 26 · b. 1856

Statistical Mysticism · 1 video

Grigori Rasputin Even mysticism has a statistical interpretation — Bayes updates the impossible July 27 · b. 1869

Mathematical Propaganda · 1 video

Benito Mussolini A warning: large numbers without context are mathematics weaponised July 29 · b. 1883

Industrial Mathematics · 1 video

Henry Ford He used time-and-motion mathematics to build a car every 93 minutes July 30 · b. 1863

Mathematical Worldbuilding · 1 video

J.K. Rowling Even fictional magic must obey mathematical constraints — or the story breaks July 31 · b. 1965

Social Mathematics · 1 video

James Baldwin His essays are mathematical proofs about injustice — premise, argument, conclus… August 2 · b. 1924

Mathematical Harmony · 1 video

Tony Bennett Perfect pitch is mathematical — he could name any frequency by ear August 3 · b. 1926

Mathematical Archaeology · 1 video

Louis Leakey He found our oldest human ancestors — and used radioactive mathematics to date … August 7 · b. 1903

Mathematical Cognition · 1 video

Jean Piaget He discovered that children learn mathematics in a precise developmental sequen… August 9 · b. 1896

Mathematical Suspense · 1 video

Alfred Hitchcock His famous camera trick is pure mathematics — zoom and movement cancelling each… August 13 · b. 1899

Mathematical Humour · 1 video

Gary Larson He hid deep logical paradoxes in cartoons — and sold 45 million books August 14 · b. 1950

Mathematical Cooking · 1 video

Julia Child Every recipe is a maths problem — she just made it delicious August 15 · b. 1912

Mathematical History · 1 video

Virginia Dare The first census of America began with counting — mathematics of nationhood August 18 · b. 1587

Mathematical Fashion · 1 video

Coco Chanel She defined elegance mathematically — remove everything unnecessary August 19 · b. 1883

Mathematical Horror · 1 video

H.P. Lovecraft He made non-Euclidean geometry terrifying — geometry where angles don't add up … August 20 · b. 1890

Mathematical Jazz · 1 video

Count Basie His band swung because they mathematically displaced every beat just enough August 21 · b. 1904

Mathematical Governance · 1 video

Ivan the Terrible Even a tsar needed mathematics to count his empire August 25 · b. 1530

Mathematical Nature · 1 video

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He discovered that plant spirals follow the same sequence as rabbit population … August 28 · b. 1749

Mathematical Performance · 1 video

Beyoncé Knowles A concert for 60,000 people is a mathematics problem — sound, light, and timing September 4 · b. 1981

Mathematical Symmetry · 1 video

Raquel Welch Even beauty has a mathematical formula — it's called the golden ratio September 5 · b. 1940

Mathematical Folk Art · 1 video

Grandma Moses She started painting at 78 — proving mathematics of creativity has no age limit September 7 · b. 1860

Statistical Graphics · 1 video

William Playfair He invented the bar chart, line graph, and pie chart — all in one lifetime September 9 · b. 1759

Mathematical Vitalism · 1 video

D.H. Lawrence He saw mathematics in every living thing — and made it poetry September 11 · b. 1885

Mathematical Athletics · 1 video

Jesse Owens He ran using perfectly optimised mathematics — and humiliated Hitler at his own… September 12 · b. 1913

Mathematical Storytelling · 1 video

Roald Dahl Every Roald Dahl story has a mathematical structure — even the magic must follo… September 13 · b. 1916

Mathematical Entropy · 1 video

William Golding Lord of the Flies is a mathematical theorem: disorder always wins without work … September 19 · b. 1911

Mathematical Beauty · 1 video

Sophia Loren Even a face can be measured mathematically — and the golden ratio keeps appeari… September 20 · b. 1934

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H.G. Wells He invented time travel as a four-dimensional mathematics problem — before Eins… September 21 · b. 1866

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Sigrid Undset Medieval Norse stories track time with lunar mathematics — moon-counting calend… September 23 · b. 1882

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