Amateur mathematician cracks decades-old math problem. By Katie Langin Apr. 18, 2018 , 10:30 AM. Aubrey de Grey, an outspoken antiaging researcher, unraveled a problem that has stumped mathematicians for more …

Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier: Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier, French astronomer who predicted by mathematical means the existence of the planet Neptune. Appointed a teacher of astronomy at the École Polytechnique (“Polytechnic college”), Paris, in 1837, Le Verrier first undertook an extensive study of the theory of the planet

From 1792 through 1797 Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician and amateur astronomer, calculated ephemerides (tables of the locations of stars and planets) for almanacs that were widely distributed and influential. Because of these works, Banneker became one of the most famous African

And what are infinity scrs? They are numbers which are so big, that even though they are finite, they seem to be reaching for infinity, like a sky scr is a building that reaches for the sky.

Mathematics is a field that many people shy away from, but there are some who had a passion for numbers and making discoveries regarding equations, measurements, and other numerical solutions in history.

Paul Felix Nemenyi (June 5, 1895 – March 1, 1952) was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.He was known for using what he called the inverse or semi …

By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, an anti-aging pundit has achieved mathematical immortality.

An amateur (French amateur “lover of”, from Old French and ultimately from Latin amatorem nom. amator, “lover”) is generally considered a person who pursues a particular activity or field of study independently from their source of income.

Diophantus: Diophantus, Greek mathematician, famous for his work in algebra. What little is known of Diophantus’s life is circumstantial. From the appellation “of Alexandria” it seems that he worked in the main scientific centre of the ancient Greek world; and because he is not mentioned before the 4th

Professional biologist and amateur mathematician Aubrey de Grey has partially solved the Hadwiger-Nelson problem, which has vexed mathematicians since 1950. He has published a paper describing the solution on the arXiv preprint