Mathematics


The following is a list of influential people that can be tied into general mathematics curriculum, and may also incorporate LGBTQ inclusive instruction. These people or events are tied into LGBTQ curriculum because they are LGBTQ in oriention, or have influenced modern thought on the inclusion of such minorities. This list is just a beginning.

Influential People

Alan Turing - gay codebreaker during WWII & founder of 'computable numbers'
Leonardo DaVinci - 15th c. gay artist & mathematician
Michelangelo - 15th c. gay artist & mathematician
John Keynes - revolutionary 1930's gay economist outlining demand-determined equilibrium
Sonja Kovalevsky - 1st female doctorate (and lesbian) in math who developed Kovalevsky's Theorem


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