Mathographies

These biographical sketches were composed by BCC faculty for use in BCC classes.

• Maria Agnesi

• Archimedes

• Babylonian and Muslim Algebra, Cubic Equations, Tartaglia

• David Blackwell

• Jerome Cardano

• Augustin-Louis Cauchy

• René Descartes

• Perci Diaconis

• Paul Erdös

• Leonard Euler

• Charles Fefferman

• Evariste Galois

• Paul Halmos

• Edwin Hewitt

• John Kemeny

• Sonya Kovalevsky

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• Isaac Newton

• Emmy Noether

• Julia Robinson

• Mary Ellen Rudin

• Jean Taylor

• John von Neumann

• Karl Weierstrass