Mathematicians pictures and biography of saints

Do your eyes glaze over when your kids ask for help on their math homework? There are a lot of Catholics you might want to thank for that before you tear your hair out.

In this light, I’ve decided to highlight the accomplishments of several important clerics and lay Catholic mathematicians.

1. Archbishop Thomas Bradwardine (1290-1349). English Archbishop, physicist and mathematician who created the Law of Falling Bodies which was a precursor to the Theory of Gravity.

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Biography of saint benedict

Bishop Johannes Müller von Königsberg (1436-1476). German Bishop, astronomer and mathematician known as the “Father of Modern Astronomy.” He was among the first to use symbolic algebra.

3. Blessed Ramon Llull (c. 1232-1315).

Catalan Franciscan tertiary and beatus who invented the first analog computer. He’s known as the “Father of Computer Science.”