Maths ICS Summer 2011

The scientific study of probability is a modern development. Gambling shows that there has been an interest in quantifying the ideas of prob...

Sofia Kovalevsky Sofia Kovalevsky , born in Moscow , displayed unusual mathematical ability from childhood. Desperate to escape the str...

Stephen Smale was born in Flint, Michigan in 1930. At the age of five he lived on a farm while his father worked in the city for General M...

Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BC-212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, inventor and astronomer. He is famous for using the method of exhaustion ...

Al-Khwarizmi was one of the most brilliant muslim scholars in the early Islamic culture. He was an astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and ...

Euclid was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of geometry". He was born in Athens but he was active in Ale...

Leonardo Fibonacci (c.1170 - c.1250) was an Italian mathematician best known to the modern world for the spreading of Hindu-Arabic numeral s...