Mathematics & Mathematicians Educational Posters & Charts
pg 2/3

Michel Chasles
b. 11-15-1793; France
d. 12-18-1880

Michel Chasles was an historian of mathematics, mathematician and professor of mathematics. His first major work was "Historical view of the origin and development of methods in geometry"; he also worked on projective geometry, quadric surfaces and conic sections.

Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont
b. 12-17-1706; France
d. 9-10-1749; complications of childbirth

Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont was a mathematician, physicist and author. Einstein's famous equation for the energy of matter E=mc² fits neatly with a principle recognised by Madame de Chatelet 150 years before Einstein in her book Institutions de Physique (“Lessons in Physics”), which she had prepared for her 13 year old son as a "Cliff Notes" study of the newest ideas of the time. She translated Newton's Principia into French and was also great friends with Voltaire, (with her husband's blessing).

Christoph Clavius
b. 3-25-1538; Germany
d. 2-12-1612

Christoph Clavius was a Jesuit priest, mathematician and astronomer who developed the modern Gregorian calendar. Galileo visited Clavius to discuss the observations made with the telescope though Clavius held firm to the idea of a geocentric solar system where everything rotates around the Earth.

Copernicus, a polymath scholar adept in mathematics, law, medicine, diplomacy, government and religion, is best known as the first European astronomer to propose a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology with the Sun at the center of the solar system.

b. 2-19-1473; Poland
d. 5-24-1543

Rene Descartes
b. 3-31-1596; France
d. 2-11-1650

Lewis Carroll alias Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
b. 1-27-1832; England
d. 1-14-1898

• more Lewis Carroll posters

Albert Einstein
“Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater.”

• more Einstein posters
• more notable educators posters

Eratosthenes
b. 276 BC; Cyrene (Libya)
d. 194 BC; Alexandria

Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer and historian. He studied and worked at Alexandria, the capitol of Hellenized Ptolemaic Egypt, becoming the second librarian of the famed Alexandrian Library.

Eratosthenes created a map of the world based on the available geographical knowledge, is the first known person to have calculated the circumference of the Earth, and devised a system of latitude and longitude.

• The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

Jaime Escalante
b. 12-31-1930; La Paz, Bolivia

• famous teachers / educators
• Hispanic Heritage posters

M. C. Escher

• more M. C. Escher posters

Page of Text with Geometrical Figures, from "Geometry" by Euclid, Giclee Print

Euclid
ca. 325 BC–265 BC, Alexandria

Euclid of Alexandia, "The Father of Geometry", was a Greek mathematician who, in his Elements, set forth his principles of geometry proving mathematical theorems from a small set of axioms or accepted principles.

• philosopher posters

Leonard Euler
b. 4-15-1707; Switzerland
d. 9-18-1783

• Euler: the Master of Us All

Pierre de Fermat
b. 8-17-1601; France
d. 1-12-1665

Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer, is given credit for developments that lead to modern calculus, the study of limits, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series.

Fermat's "Last Theorem - It is impossible to separate any power higher than the second into two like powers", was not proven until 1994, three hundred fifty-seven years after he proposed it.

• The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665