Who is a famous mathematician i can write about for a school report?
Well, if you want easy (and popular, I’m sure), you could try Pythagoras. His works, though absolutely cutting edge at his time, are standard high school fare these days. He was also an interesting fellow. He had (from what I’ve read) his own cult, and had an associate killed for proving that the square root of 2 was irrational. Look into it on google. I’m sure you’ll find plenty. The first mathematician who sprang to mind, however, is Leonhard Euler, who was a very creative and extremely prolific Swiss mathematician, whose contributions range far and wide through several branches of maths. He’s responsible for the constant e, for example, named after him. You could also do Kurt Godel, who is an interesting mathematician. He is responsible for proving definitively and logically that current mathematical techniques will never be able to answer all questions, no matter how much we tweak them. He also did some other cool things, like providing a little mathematical proof of god. He was al
