Mathematics Personae

For entertainment value you can find some background on the mathematicians who developed some of the ideas we are exploring in this class:

Mathematician	Dates	Lecture Notes	Resource
Pierre de Fermat	17 August 1601 – 12 Jan 1665	5, 8	[html]
Blaise Pascal	19 June 1623 – 19 Aug 1662	8	[html]
Leonhard Euler	15 April 1707 – 18 Sept 1783	5, 7	[html]
Joseph-Louis Lagrange	25 Jan 1736 – 10 April 1813	7	[html]
Johann Gauss	30 April 1777 – 23 Feb 1855	8	[html]
Augustus De Morgan	27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871	2, 4, 8	[html]
George Boole	2 Nov 1815 – 8 Dec 1864	3, 9	[html]
John Venn	4 Aug 1834 – 4 April 1923	9	[html]
Georg Cantor	3 March 1845 – 6 Jan 1918	9	[html]
Claude Shannon	30 April 1916 – 24 Feb 2001	3	[html]