# Mathematicians — Lives behind the theorems

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:41.907Z
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## Summary

Eleven figures, twenty-five centuries. From a Greek cult leader who heard the world as ratios to a wandering Hungarian who slept on his colleagues' couches — the people who invented the language we count, calculate, and reason in. Key sections include: MATHEMATICIANS Lives behind the theorems; Pythagoras; Euclid; Archimedes; Isaac Newton; Leonhard Euler; Carl Friedrich Gauss; Bernhard Riemann; Srinivasa Ramanujan; Emmy Noether.

## Slide Outline

1. MATHEMATICIANS Lives behind the theorems
2. Pythagoras
3. Euclid
4. Archimedes
5. Isaac Newton
6. Leonhard Euler
7. Carl Friedrich Gauss
8. Bernhard Riemann
9. Srinivasa Ramanujan
10. Emmy Noether
11. Alan Turing
12. Paul Erdős
13. Further reading & viewing

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