i’m asking because i have to do a project about some inventions of mathematicians that helped the world. i was wondering if Louis Braille was a mathematician, do you know? also do you know any other mathematician who did a great invention that helped the world?
Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille, a worldwide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by passing the fingers over characters made up of an arrangement of one to six embossed points. It has been adapted to almost every known language. So, you see Braille was actually not a mathematician!
Some greatest mathematicians:
Isaac Newton, Carl F. Gauss, Leonhard Euler, Archimedes, Bernhard Riemann, Euclid, Henri Poincaré, David Hilbert, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Gottfried W. Leibniz, Alexander Grothendieck, Pierre de Fermat, Niels Abel, Évariste Galois, John von Neumann, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Karl W. T. Weierstrass, Brahmagupta, René Déscartes, Augustin Cauchy, Carl G. J. Jacobi, Hermann K. H. Weyl, Peter G. L. Dirichlet, Leonardo `Fibonacci’, Georg Cantor, Arthur Cayley, Emma Noether, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Muhammed al-Khowârizmi, Pythagoras of Samos, Kurt Gödel, Bháscara Áchárya, Blaise Pascal, Apollonius of Perga, Pierre-Simon Laplace, William R. Hamilton, Charles Hermite, Felix Christian Klein, Richard Dedekind, Stefan Banach, Diophantus of Alexandria, George Boole, François Viète, André Weil, Ferdinand Eisenstein, Andrey N. Kolmogorov, Alhazen ibn al-Haytham, Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Christiaan Huygens, Jacques Hadamard, Pappus of Alexandria
Gaspard Monge, Hipparchus of Nicaea, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Siméon-Denis Poisson, Johannes Kepler
Hope this helps!