Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler

male, deceased (1783)
blind, mathematician, most prolific mathematician, number theory, oiler, mathematical analysis…Calculatingprodigies
Leonhard Euler , the most prolific mathematician of all time, wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime about 800 pages per year...
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

male, deceased (1855)
magnetism, electricity, Electrostatics, Gauß, Lutheran, From Braunschweig…Calculatingprodigies
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who c...
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
genius, universal constructor, convert to Roman Catholicism, Pancreatic cancer death, Bone cancer death, American…Calculatingprodigies
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Paul Erdős

Paul Erdős

male, deceased (1996)
Number theorist, combinatorics, mathematician, hungarian, Erdős number, Calculatingprodigies
Paul Erdős, also Pál Erdős, in English Paul Erdos or Paul Erdös (March 26, 1913 - September 20, 1996), was an immensely prolific (and famously ecce...
Shakuntala Devi

Shakuntala Devi

female, 70 years old
Indian, Calculatingprodigies, Guinness Book of Records, annamalai university, bangalore, hinduism…Calculating prodigy
Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India. Her father worked in a circus as a trapeze and...
Truman Henry Safford

Truman Henry Safford

male, deceased (1901)
Williams College, from Vermont, Astronomer, observatory, American, Hopkins Observatory…calculating, Calculatingprodigies
Truman Henry Safford (6 January 1836-1901) was an American calculating prodigy. In later life he was an observatory director. He was born in...
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

male, 67 years old
black holes, Quantum Gravity, theoretical physics, physicist, agnostic, cosmology…Calculatingprodigies
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of...
Zerah Colburn

Zerah Colburn

male
Methodist, thomas young, American, child prodigy, mentally retarded, Westminster School…Calculatingprodigies
Zerah Colburn (1804-1839) was a famous child prodigy of the 19th century. Born in Cabot, Vermont and educated at Westminster School in London,...
George Parker Bidder

George Parker Bidder

male, deceased (1878)
London & Birmingham Railway, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, English, university of edinburgh, Calculatingprodigies, Moretonhampstead
George Parker Bidder (born June 14, 1806 in Moretonhampstead; died September 28, 1878) was an English engineer and calculating prodigy. He...
Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan

male, deceased (1920)
equation, mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, Bernoulli number, Kumbakonam…Calculatingprodigies
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (22 December 1887 - 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the greatest...