Icons of Mathematics

Creation of nature and Mathematics are closely related. The curiosity of human being towards nature might be considered as the source of spring of Mathematics. Questions like what? how? why? and how many? might have arisen within him by seeing the environment and sky hearing the sound touching the objects etc. In order to get solution to these questions the primitive human would have to make an approach of logical reasoning and rational thinking. This logical approach and rational thinking are bases of Mathematics. “Just like the work of a painter who makes out patterns with his paints a mathematician works with nothing but his ideas and his ideas similar to a painter’s strokes must be beautiful” says the famous mathematician Bertrand Russell. Only then can he produce a work that can be called profoundly significant and creative. Mathematics is often defined as a study of pattern and so it is. Mathematics is a field where many people feel diffident but there are some who have a passion for numbers and making discoveries regarding equations measurements and other numerical solutions in history. Did all these great mathematicians of the world have anything in common? Are they born savants? Did they realize the existence of theorems and other mathematical discoveries in their journey of life? There are two schools of thoughts that answer these questions. Plato believed that these theorems and concepts are out there in the universe just waiting to be revealed. But the ‘realists’ have a different philosophy; according to them mathematical concepts and ideas arise from our physical presence and we solely are responsible for their being. Whichever theory is true the fact remains that Mathematics is creative boldness and all these famous mathematicians found that creativity and boldness within them that encouraged them to discover the mathematical principles we now know and study in our books. Often called the language of the universe Mathematics is fundamental to