Omar Khayyam was an interdisciplinary thinker. He was a mathematician, a philosopher, a political advisor, and a famous poet. This is his story.
Thomas Fuller arrived on the shores of the United States in 1724 when he was just 14 years old. Against his will, he was put on a boat and sent to America.
Where did the word “scientist” come from?!
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi received her Ph.D. at 21 years of age. She was the first woman to earn a professorship in physics at a university. As a trailblazer for women in STEM, she was one of the first women in science to accomplish so much! Her story is truly memorable.
There is a paper on Academia that I posted years ago, proudly claiming that Hypatia was the world’s first female mathematician. It’s humbling what years of research will teach you. It so turns out that Hypatia was NOT the world’s first female mathematician. Other women taught mathematics long before Hypatia, including the mathematician Pandrosion. She was one of the first