Most students in school, especially high school are known for saying that they would never need math in the real world, and maybe they’re right to some degree. But that doesn’t mean that math isn’t important and that math hasn’t contributed to our society. Yet, the math students learn in school, the math that computer programmers use, even the math that architects use, were all founded, and proved by mathematicians who are never given the appreciation that they deserve. One of these great mathematicians is Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann. In calculus classes, there are lessons on Riemann Sums, one of his more famous calculus contributions, and one of the easiest graphing lessons I ever had. He was able to prove something in a way that strayed away from complicated …show more content…
Riemann, like many other mathematicians, has theories and formulas named after them, but many students don’t know who they are. I didn’t know who Riemann was, and although I don’t understand most of his contributions to math and his discoveries, I can appreciate his fields of study, and the vast amount of work he did in his 39 years.
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, known as Bernhard Riemann was a German mathematician born on September 17, 1826, in Breselenz, Hanover and died on July 20, 1866, in Selasca, Italy. He was the second child of six, two boys and four girls, of Friedrich Bernhard Riemann and Charlotte Ebell. Riemann’s father was a Lutheran pastor, and his family was poor. He was a shy and introverted person, and this might have had to do with the fact that he was homeschooled and taught by his father until the age of ten. This is when his father realized that Riemann was excelling at mathematics and called in a local teacher, Schultz, to teach Riemann arithmetic and geometry. When Riemann was thirteen, he left his home to live with his grandmother where he attended Tertia des Lyceums Gymnasium but then moved again two years later when his grandmother