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Another devout Christian was the brilliant mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), who was perhaps second only to the Greek Archimedes as the greatest mathematician of all time.  When Riemann was sent as a teenager to an advanced German school, he quickly became bored with his math class.  He went to the principal and requested more advanced material, whereupon the principal gave him the lengthy and most advanced math book known.  Riemann returned in a just few days declaring, “I have mastered it!”  He went on to create a new type of geometry that became useful in the 20th century, and he formulated the most famous unsolved hypothesis that remains in mathematics today.

Another devout Christian was the brilliant mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), who was perhaps second only to the Greek Archimedes as the greatest mathematician of all time.  When Riemann was sent as a teenager to an advanced German school, he quickly became bored with his math class.  He went to the principal and requested more advanced material, whereupon the principal gave him the lengthy and most advanced math book known.  Riemann returned in a just few days declaring, “I have mastered it!”  He went on to create a new type of geometry that became useful in the 20th century, and he formulated the most famous unsolved hypothesis that remains in mathematics today.

Marie Curie, a brilliant female Polish scientist who moved to Paris, discovered radioactivity along with her (less-talented) husband Pierre.  Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist, put together the periodic table of elements that is still taught today.  British physician Joseph Lister applied Pasteur’s germ theory of disease and implemented an antibacterial cleaning technique for hospital tools and facilities, greatly reducing the number of infections.

Marie Curie, a brilliant female Polish scientist who moved to Paris, discovered radioactivity along with her (less-talented) husband Pierre.  Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist, put together the periodic table of elements that is still taught today.  British physician Joseph Lister applied Pasteur’s germ theory of disease and implemented an antibacterial cleaning technique for hospital tools and facilities, greatly reducing the number of infections.