Alan Turing
Alan Turing (1912 to 1954) was a British mathematician and logician widely regarded as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.…
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Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace (1815 to 1852) was an English mathematician often celebrated as the first computer programmer. Working with Charles Babbage's designs…
Topology
Topology is the branch of mathematics that studies the properties of shapes that survive stretching, bending, and twisting, but not tearing or…
Set Theory
Set theory is the branch of mathematics that studies collections of objects, called sets. Though it begins with an idea as simple as grouping things…
Graph Theory
Graph theory is the branch of mathematics that studies networks of connected objects. A graph is simply a collection of points, called vertices,…
The Theory of Computation
The theory of computation is the branch of mathematics and computer science that asks what problems can be solved by computation, and how…
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose precise calculations of orbital mechanics were critical to the success of the United States'…
Fermat's Last Theorem
Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive whole numbers can satisfy the equation a to the power n, plus b to the power n, equals c to the…
The Riemann Hypothesis
The Riemann hypothesis is the most famous unsolved problem in mathematics. Proposed by Bernhard Riemann in 1859, it makes a precise claim about the…
The Four Color Theorem
The four color theorem states that any map drawn on a flat surface can be colored using only four colors in such a way that no two regions sharing a…
Information Theory
Information theory is the mathematical study of how information is measured, stored, and communicated. It defines what information actually is in…
Chaos Theory
Chaos theory is the branch of mathematics that studies systems whose behaviour is exquisitely sensitive to their starting conditions. Such systems…
Game Theory
Game theory is the mathematical study of strategic decision making, where the outcome for each participant depends not only on their own choice but…
The Pythagorean Theorem
The Pythagorean theorem is one of the most famous results in all of mathematics. It states that in a right angled triangle, the square of the longest…
Goldbach's Conjecture
Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest and simplest sounding unsolved problems in mathematics. It states that every even whole number greater…