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List of mathematicians
The famous mathematicians are listed below in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surname).
A
- Niels Henrik Abel (Norway, 1802 - 1829)
- Ralph H. Abraham (USA, University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Wilhelm Ackermann (Germany, 1896 - 1962)
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Italy, 1718 - 1799)
- Lars Valerian Ahlfors, (Finland, 1907 - 1996)
- Ahmes, (Egypt, roughly around 17th century BC)
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert (France, 1717 - 1783)
- Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (Persia, 780 - 850)
- Alexander Anderson (Scotland, 1582 - 1620)
- André-Marie Ampere, (France, 1775 - 1836)
- Apollonius of Perga (Asia Minor, 265 B.C. - 170 B.C.)
- Archimedes (Syracuse, 287 B.C. - 212 B.C.)
- Aristotle (Greece, 384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)
- Vladimir Arnol'd (Russia, 1937 - )
- Emil Artin (Austria, 1898 - 1962)
- Arzachel (Al-Zarqali) (Muslim Spain, 1028-1087)
- Michael Francis Atiyah (Britain, 1929 - )
B
- Charles Babbage (United Kingdom, 1791 - 1871)
- John Baez
- Alan Baker (Britain, 1939 - )
- Stefan Banach (Poland, 1892 - 1945)
- Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russia, USA, 1927 - )
- Charlotte Barnum (1860-1934)
- Isaac Barrow (England, 1630 - 1677)
- Thomas Bayes (England, 1702 - 1761)
- Eric Temple Bell (Scotland, USA, 1883 - 1960)
- Jakob Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1654 - 1705)
- Johann Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1667 - 1748)
- Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand (France, 1822 - 1900)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784 - 1846)
- Arne Beurling (Sweden, 1905-1986)
- Bhaskara (India, 1114 - 1185)
- Biruni (Persian Empire, 973 - 1048)
- Gertrude Blanch (1898-1996)
- Danilo Blanusa, (Croatia, 1903 - 1987)
- Lenore Blum (1942- )
- Farkos Wolfgang Bolyai (Romania, 1775 - 1856)
- János Bolyai (Romania, 1802 - 1860)
- Bernard Bolzano (Bohemia, 1781 - 1848)
- Enrico Bombieri (Italy, 1940 - )
- Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (Italy 1892 - 1960)
- George Boole (Britain, 1815 - 1864)
- Richard Ewen Borcherds (Britain, 1959 - )
- Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (France, 1871 - 1956)
- Karol Borsuk (Poland, 1905 - 1982)
- Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (Poland/Russia/Germany 1868 - 1931)
- Nicolas Bourbaki (Pseudonym used by a cabal of French mathematicians)
- Jean Bourgain (Belgium, 1954 - )
- Ruđer Josip Bošković (Republic of Dubrovnik, 1711 - 1787)
- Carl Benjamin Boyer (American, 1906 - 1976)
- Thomas Bradwardine (English, c. 1290 - 1349)
- Henry Briggs (Britain, 1561 - 1630)
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (Netherlands, 1881 - 1966)
- Viggo Brun (Norway, 1885 - 1978)
- Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev (Russia, 1859-1962)
- William Burnside (UK, 1852-1927)
C
- Georg Ferdinand Cantor (Germany, 1845 - 1918)
- Constantin Carathéodory (Germany, 1873 - 1950)
- Gerolamo Cardano (Italy, 1501 - 1576)
- Robert Daniel Carmichael (USA, 1879 - 1967)
- Henri Cartan (France, 1904 - )
- Pierre Cartier (???? - )
- Augustin Louis Cauchy (France, 1789 - 1857)
- Bonaventura Cavalieri (Italy, 1598 - 1647)
- Arthur Cayley (Britain, 1821 - 1895)
- Eduard Čech (Czech Republic, 1893 - 1960)
- Ernesto Cesaro (Italy, March 12,1859 - September 12,1906)
- Ludolph van Ceulen (Germany/Netherlands, 1540 - 1610)
- Giovanni Ceva (Italy, 1648 - 1734)
- Gulbank Don Chakerian (USA)
- Gregory J. Chaitin (USA, ???? - )
- Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, (Russia, (May 16,1821 - December 8,1894)
- Jing-Run Chen (Mainland China, May 22,1933 - 1996)
- Shiing-shen Chern (October 26,1911 - )
- Alexey Chervonenkis (Russia)
- Ch'in Chiu-Shao (China, 1200s)
- Sarvadaman Chowla (India, 1907 - 1995)
- Elwin Bruno Christoffel Germany (1829-1900)
- Fan Chung (Taiwan, USA, 1949 - )
- Alonzo Church (USA, 1903 - 1995)
- John Coates (Australia, born 1945)
- Paul Joseph Cohen (USA, 1934 - )
- Roger Cotes (England, 1682-1716)
- Zuanne de Tonini da Coi (Clolla) (16th century)
- Marquis de Condorcet (France, 1743 - 1794)
- Alain Connes (France, 1947 - )
- John Conway (Britain, 1937 - )
- H.S.M. Coxeter, (Britain and then Canada, 1907 - 2003)
- John Craig (Scotland, 1663 - 1731)
- Gabriel Cramer (Switzerland, 1704 - 1752)
- Harald Cramér (Sweden, 1893 - 1985)
D
- Francois d'Aguillon (Belgium, 1566 - 1617)
- Germinal Pierre Dandelin (France, Belgium, 1794 - 1847)
- David van Dantzig (Netherlands, 1900 - 1959)
- Ludwig W. Danzer (Germany, University of Dortmund)
- George Dantzig (USA, 1914 - )
- Jean Gaston Darboux (France, August 14,1842 - February 23,1917)
- Indraneel Das
- Ingrid Daubechies (1954- )
- Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind, (Germany, 1831 - 1916)
- Bruno de Finetti (Italy, 1906 - 1985)
- Pierre Deligne (Belgium, USA, 1944 - )
- Augustus de Morgan (India, Britain 1806 - 1871)
- René Descartes, (France, 1596 - 1650)
- Samuel Dickstein, (Poland, 1851 - 1939)
- Edsger Dijkstra (1930 - 2002)
- Diophantus of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa 298 B.C. - 214 B.C.)
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (Germany, 1805 - 1859)
- Simon Donaldson (Britain, 1957 - )
- Adrien Douady (France, 1935 - )
- Jesse Douglas (USA, 1897 - 1965)
- Vladimir Drinfeld (Ukraine, 1954 - )
- Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (USSR, 1924 - )
- Underwood Dudley
- Freeman John Dyson, (England, December 15,1923 - )
E
F
- Gerd Faltings (Germany, 1954 - )
- Pierre Fatou (France, 1878 - 1929)
- Charles Fefferman (USA, 1949 - )
- Pierre de Fermat (France, 1601 - 1665)
- Lodovico Ferrari (Italy, 1522 - 1565)
- Scipione dal Ferro (Italy, February 6,1465 - November 5,1526)
- Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (Italy, 1170 - 1250)
- Thomas Fincke (Denmark, 1561 - 1656)
- Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (1903-1974)
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, (France, 1768 - 1830)
- Adolf Fraenkel (Germany, 1891 - 1965)
- Michael Freedman (USA, 1951 - )
- Hans Freudenthal (Germany, the Netherlands, 1905 - 1990)
G
- Evariste Galois (France, 1811 - 1832)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777 - 1855)
- Hilda Geiringer von Mises (1893-1973)
- Gerhard Gentzen (Germany, 1909 - 1945)
- Sophie Germain (France, 1776 - 1831)
- Kurt Gödel, (Austria, USA, 1906 - 1978)
- Christian Goldbach (Germany, 1690 - 1764)
- Solomon Golomb (USA, ~1930 - )
- I. J. Good (UK)
- William Sealey Gosset (Britain, 1876 - 1937)
- Ronald Graham (USA)
- George Green (Britain, 1793 - 1841)
- William Timothy Gowers (Britain, 1963 - )
- Hermann Günther Grassmann (Prussia, 1809 - 1877)
- Alexander Grothendieck (France, 1928 - )
- Paul Guldin (Switzerland, 1577 - 1643)
H
- Jacques Hadamard (France, 1865 - 1963)
- Paul Richard Halmos (Hungary, USA, 1916 - )
- William Rowan Hamilton (Ireland, 1805 - 1865)
- Richard Hamming (USA, 1915-1998)
- Peter Andreas Hansen (Denmark, 1795 - 1874)
- Godfrey Harold Hardy (Britain, 1877 - 1947)
- Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (1851-1888)
- Felix Hausdorff (Germany, 1869 - 1942)
- Thomas Heath (England 1861 - 1940)
- Eduard Heine (Germany, 1821-1881)
- Werner Karl Heisenberg, (Germany, 1901 - 1976)
- Leon Henkin
- Charles Hermite (France, 1822 - 1901)
- Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
- David Hilbert (Germany, 1862 - 1943)
- George William Hill (USA, 1838 - 1914),
- Hipparchus
- Heisuke Hironaka (広中平祐, Japan, 1931 - )
- Vaclav Hlavaty (Czech Republic, 1894 - 1969)
- W. V. D. Hodge (UK)
- Otto Hölder (Germany, 1859 - 1937)
- Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf (Austria, 1902 -1983)
- Heinz Hopf (Germany, now Poland, 1894 - 1971)
- Lars Hörmander (Sweden, 1931 - )
- Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (France, 1661 - 1704)
- Liu Hui (劉徽, China, 200s)
- Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629 - 1695)
- Witold Hurewicz(Poland 1904-1956)
- Hypatia (Egypt, d. 415)
J
K
- Mark Kac (Poland, USA, 1914 - 1984)
- Erich Kähler (Germany 1905-2000)
- Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (USSR, 1912 - 1986)
- Ghiyath al-Kashi (Timurid Iran, circa 1370 - 1429)
- Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (Germany, 1719 - 1800)
- Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571 - 1630)
- Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (USSR, 1894 - 1959)
- Stephen Cole Kleene (USA, 1909 - 1994)
- Felix Klein (Germany, 1849 - 1925)
- Donald Knuth (USA, 1938 - )
- Pelagaeia Polubarinova Kochina (Russia, 1899 - 1999)
- Kunihiko Kodaira (Japan, 1915 - 1997)
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russia, 1903 - 1987)
- Helge von Koch (Sweden, 1870 - 1924)
- Maxim Kontsevich (Russia, 1964 - )
- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russia, 1850 - 1891)
- Cecilia Krieger (1894-1974)
- Leopold Kronecker (Silesia/Germany, 1823 - 1891)
- Ernst Eduard Kummer (Germany, 1810 - 1893
- Kazimierz Kuratowski (Poland, 1896 - 1980)
- Martin Wilhelm Kutta (Silesia/Germany, 1867 - 1944)
L
- Laurent Lafforgue (France, 1966 - )
- Joseph-Louis de Lagrange (France, 1736 - 1813)
- Ivo Lah (Slovenia, 1896 - 1979)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert (Germany, 1728 - 1777)
- Robert Langlands (Canada, USA, 1936 - )
- Pierre Simon Laplace (France, 1749 - 1827)
- Solomon Lefschetz (USA, 1884-1972)
- Henri Leon Lebesgue (France, 1875 - 1941)
- Adrien-Marie Legendre (France, 1752 - 1833)
- Derrick Henry Lehmer (USA, 1905 - 1991)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Germany, 1646 - 1716)
- Solomon Lefschetz (France, USA, 1884 - 1972)
- John Lennard-Jones (UK, 1894-1954)
- Jean Leray
- Stanislaw Lesniewski (Poland)
- Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (France, 1661 - 1704)
- Sophus Lie (Norway, 1842 - 1899)
- Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (Germany, 1852 - 1939)
- Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (Russia, 1915 - 1972)
- Jacques-Louis Lions (France, 1928 - 2001)
- Joseph Liouville (France, 1809 - 1882)
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russia, 1792 - 1856)
- François-Édouard-Anatole Lucas (France, 1842 - 1891)
- Lukasiewicz, Jan (Poland, 1878-1956)
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, (Russia, 1857 - 1918)
M
- Sheila Scott Macintyre (Scotland, 1910-1960)
- Saunders MacLane (USA, 1909 - )
- Colin Maclaurin (Scotland, 1698 - 1746)
- Benoit B. Mandelbrot (Poland, France, USA, 1924 - )
- Jozef Marcinkiewicz(Poland )
- Edward Marczewski (Poland, 1907 - 1976)
- Grigory Margulis (USSR, USA, 1946 - )
- Andrei Andreevich Markov, (Russia, 1856 - 1922)
- Jerrold E. Marsden (USA, ???? - )
- Anders Martin-Löf (Sweden)
- Lorenzo Mascheroni (Italy, 1750 - 1800)
- Curtis T. McMullen (USA, 1958 - )
- Menelaus of Alexandria (Egypt ca 70- ca 140)
- Karl Menger (Austria/USA, 1902 - 1985)
- Marin Mersenne (France, 1588 - 1648)
- Franz Mertens (Germany, 1840 - 1927)
- Freda Mihailescu
- John Milnor (USA 1931 - )
- Hermann Minkowski (Germany, 1864 - 1909)
- August Ferdinand Möbius (Germany, 1790 - 1868)
- Georg Mohr (Denmark, 1640 - 1697)
- Abraham de Moivre (France, 1667 - 1754)
- Gaspard Monge (France, 1746 - 1818)
- Shigefumi Mori (Japan, 1951 - )
- Thomas Muir (UK)
- David Mumford (Britain, USA, 1937 - )
N
- John Napier (Scotland, 1550 - 1617)
- John Forbes Nash (USA, 1928 - )
- John von Neumann (Hungary, USA, 1903 - 1957)
- Rolf Nevanlinna (Finland, 1895 - 1980)
- Simon Newcomb (USA, 1835 - 1909)
- Isaac Newton (Britain, 1643 - 1727)
- Nilakantha Somayaji (India, 1444 - 1544)
- Emmy Noether (Germany, 1882 - 1935)
- Sergei Petrovich Novikov (Russia, 1938 - )
- Petr Sergeevich Novikov (Russia, 1901 - 1935)
- Kristen Nygaard (Norway, 1926 - 2002)
O
P
- Paul Painlevé (France, 1863 - 1933)
- Pappus of Alexandria (Greece, ca. 260 B.C. - ?)
- Blaise Pascal (France, 1623 - 1662)
- Giuseppe Peano (Italy, 1858 - 1932)
- Grisha Perelman (Russia, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Saint Petersburg)
- Roger Penrose (England, 1931 - )
- Julius Petersen (Denmark, 1839 - 1910)
- Charles Emile Picard (France, 1856 - 1941)
- Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (India, 1901 - 1950)
- Michel Plancherel (Switzerland, 1885 - 1967)
- Josip Plemelj (Slovenia, 1873 - 1967)
- Simon Plouffe (Canada)
- Jules-Henri Poincaré, (France, 1854 - 1912)
- Siméon-Denis Poisson (France, 1781 - 1840)
- George Polya (Hungary, USA, 1887 - 1985)
- Emil Post (Poland, USA )
- Victor Alexandre Puiseux (France, 1820 - 1883)
- Georg Purbach (Germany, 1423-1461)
- Pythagoras of Samos (Greece 582 B.C. - 496 B.C.))
Q
R
- Richard Rado (Britain, 1906 - 1989)
- Johann Radon (Czech Republic, Austria 1887 - 1956)
- Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan (India, 1887 - 1920)
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey (Britain, 1903 - 1930)
- Robert Recorde (Wales, 1510 - 1558)
- Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller, Germany, 1436 - 1476)
- Marian Rejewski (Poland, 1905 - 1980)
- Georges de Rham (Switzerland, 1903 - 1990)
- Ken A. Ribet (USA, ???? - )
- Jules Richard (France, 1862 - 1956)
- Lewis Fry Richardson (Britain, 1881 - 1953)
- Bernhard Riemann (Germany, 1826 - 1866)
- Adam Riese (Germany, 1492 - 1559)
- Herbert Robbins (USA, Rutgers University)
- Abraham Robinson (Israel, UK, Canada, USA, 1918-1974)
- Michel Rolle (France, 1652 - 1719)
- Gian-Carlo Rota (Italy, USA, 1932 - 1999)
- Klaus Roth (Germany, Britain, 1925 - )
- Edward John Routh (Canada, Britain, 1831 - 1907)
- Carle David Tolme Runge (Germany, 1856 - 1927)
- Bertrand Russell (Britain, 1872 - 1970)
S
- Stanislaw Saks (Poland, 1897 - 1942)
- K. Saradha (India, ???? - )
- Natarajan Saradha (India, ???? - )
- Philippe Satge (France, ???? - )
- Frans van Schooten (Netherlands, 1615 - 1660)
- Issai Schur (Russia, Germany, Israel January 10 1875-- January 10 1941)
- Laurent Schwartz (France, 1915 - 2002)
- Herrmann Amandus Schwarz (Germany, 1843-1921)
- Seki Kowa (Japan, 1642 - 1708)
- Atle Selberg (Norway, USA, 1917 - )
- Reinhard Selten (Germany, 193? - )
- Jean-Pierre Serre (France, 1926 - )
- Saharon Shelah (Israel, 1945 - )
- Goro Shimura (Japan, 1930 - )
- Peter Shor
- Waclaw Sierpinski (Poland, 1882 - 1969)
- Isadore Singer (USA)
- Neil Sloane (USA, ???? - )
- Stephen Smale (USA, 1930 - )
- Robert Smith (UK)
- Willebrord van Roijen Snell (Netherlands, 1580 - 1626)
- Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (USSR, 1908 - 1989)
- Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (Russia, 1842 - 1927)
- Emanuel Sperner (Germany, 1905 - 1980)
- Michael Spivak
- Sporus of Nicaea (Asia Minor, circa 240 B.C. - circa 300 B.C.)
- Jožef Stefan (Austria-Hungary, Slovenia 1835-1893)
- Hugo Steinhaus (Poland, 1887 - 1972)
- Jakob Steiner (Switzerland, 1796 - 1863)
- Simon Stevin (Netherlands, 1548 - 1620)
- Michael Stifel (Germany, 1487 - 1567)
- Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (Netherlands, 1856 - 1894)
- James Stirling (Scotland, 1692 - 1770)
- George Gabriel Stokes (Ireland, Britain, 1819 - 1903)
- Dirk Jan Struik (Netherlands, 1894-2000)
- Ludwig Sylow (Norway, 1832 - 1918)
- James Joseph Sylvester (England, 1814 - 1897)
- Gábor Szegö (Hungary, 1895 - 1985)
T
- Teiji Takagi (Japan, April 21,1875 - February 28,1960)
- Tsuneo Tamagawa (Japanese American, 1925 - )
- Yutaka Taniyama (Japan, 1927 - 1958)
- Gaston Tarry (France, Algeria, 1843 - 1913)
- Michael Tarsi (Israel, Tel Aviv University)
- Alfred Tarski (Poland, 1902 - 1983)
- Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (Republic of Venice, 1499/1500 - 1557)
- John Tate (USA, (1925-)
- Brook Taylor (Britain, 1685 - 1731)
- Oswald Teichmuller (Germany, 1913 - 1943)
- Thales of Miletus, (circa B.C.624 - B.C.547)
- René Thom (France, 1923 - )
- John Griggs Thompson (USA, 1932 - )
- William Thurston (1946 - )
- Jacques Tits (Belgium, 1930 - )
- Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (Spain, 1852 - 1936)
- Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus (Germany, April 10,1651 - October 11,1708)
- Chung-Tze Tsen (China, April 2,1898 - November,1940)
- Albert W. Tucker
- Jerrold Tunnell
- Alan Turing (Britain, 1912 - 1954)
- Helge Tverberg
- Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff (USSR, 1906 - 1993)
U
V
W
- John Wallis (England)
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (Netherlands, 1903 - 1996)
- Edward Waring (England, 1736 - 1798)
- Tadeusz Wazewski (Poland, 1896 - 1972)
- Heinrich Weber (Germany, 1842-1913)
- Karl Weierstrass (Germany, 1815 - 1897)
- André Weil (France, 1906 - 1998)
- Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (Germany, USA, 1885 - 1955)
- Hassler Whitney (USA 1907-1989)
- Arthur Wieferich (Germany, 1884 - 1954)
- Norbert Wiener (USA, 1894 - 1964)
- Andrew Wiles (Britain, 1953 - )
- Edward Witten (USA, 1951 - )
- Vladimir Voevodsky (Russia, 1966 - )
- John Wilson (England, 1741 - 1793)
- Joseph Wolstenholme (England, 1829 - 1891)
- Christopher Wren (England, 1632 - 1723)
- Josef Wronski (Poland, 1778 - 1853)
Y
Z
- Kazimierz Zarankiewicz (Poland 1902 - 1959)
- Stanislaw Zaremba (Poland 1863 - 1942)
- Hans Julius Zassenhaus (Germany, May 28,1912 - November 21,1991)
- Huayi Zeng(China,1980-)
- Doron Zeilberger (Israel, USA, 1950 - )
- Efim Isakovich Zelmanov (USSR, USA, 1955 - )
- Ernst Zermelo (Germany, 1871 - 1953)
- Gunter M. Ziegler (Germany 1963 - )
- Zhang Heng (China, 78 - 139)
- Zhu Shijie (China, 1270 - 1330)
- Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (Russia, 1847 - 1879)
- Max A. Zorn (Germany, July 6,1906 - March 9,1993)
- Herbert Samuel Zuckerman (1912 - 1970)
- Antoni Zygmund (Poland 1900 - 1992)
External links
- The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/ -- Very complete list of detailed biographies.
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