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Mathematics Genealogy Project *****
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Mathematics Genealogy Project ( NDSU link EN, AMS link EN )
Tree of mathematicians and their students, e.g. Kurt Godel (no students known) was one of 4584 Bernard Bolzano's descendants.
Just do it: a useful mathematical technique *****
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A useful technique presented by Timothy Gowers ( EN ) supported be a cute picture of A. Kolmogorov with a message:
"Think a second ... and do it"
(another translation "Dream for just a second and then do it!")
Erdős Paul *****
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Paul Erdős ( wiki EN, web EN, project EN ) pubublished more papers than any other mathematician in history.
Paul Erdős was a problem-solver and problem-poser.
He considered that God keeps The Book of the greatest proof ( an attempt for some proofs from Martin Aigner and Gunter M. Ziegle: Proofs from the book in wiki EN, sample pages www.emis.de site EN ).
He has an Erdős number ( wiki EN ) zero.
Poincaré and Dreyfus *****
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A collection of materials relating to the intervention of the topologist Henri Poincaré in the Dreyfus case ( Andrew Ranicki EN ).
Sir Michael Atiyah *****
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A great collection of information ( Andrew Ranicki EN )
Gödel Kurt *****
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Kurt Gödel was Mister "Why" ( Herr "Warumm") of mathematics (wiki EN, Kurt Gödel Society EN ).
He discovered two incompleteness theorems.