Bernhard Riemann is likely my favorite historical mathematician (...and thus my adoption of his name for this blog); he is easily one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived… no telling how much more he would've accomplished had he not died at the all-too-young age of 40.
A biography of him here:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Riemann.html
And someone has put together this nice (10-min.) video tribute to
him (the treatment of the zeta-function/"Riemann Hypothesis" beginning at the 4:30 min. mark is especially entertaining):
ADDENDUM: This is WAAAAY beyond my neuronal capacity, but Dick Lipton/Ken Regan have just put up a seemingly fascinating new post concerning Riemann's zeta function for those able to follow it here:
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/the-amazing-zeta-code/
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