Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
List of mathematicians
The famous mathematicians are listed below in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surname).
A
- Abu'l-Wafa (Iran, 940 - 998)
- Niels Henrik Abel (Norway, 1802 - 1829)
- Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi
- Ralph H. Abraham (USA, University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Wilhelm Ackermann (Germany, 1896 - 1962)
- John Couch Adams (United Kingdom, 1819 - 1892)
- Robert Adrain (Ireland)
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Italy, 1718 - 1799)
- Lars Valerian Ahlfors, (Finland, 1907 - 1996)
- Ahmes, (Egypt, roughly around 17th century BC)
- Yousef Alavi
- al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna (Morocco, 1256 - 1321)
- Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (Uzbekistan, 973 - 1048)
- Giacomo Albanese (Italy, Brazil)
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert (France, 1717 - 1783)
- Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (Russia, 1912 - 1999)
- Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov (USSR, 1896 - 1982)
- Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (Persia, 780 - 850)
- André-Marie Ampere, (France, 1775 - 1836)
- Alexander Anderson (Scotland, 1582 - 1620)
- Adolf Anderssen (Germany, 1818 - 1879)
- Petrus Apianus (Germany, 1495 - 1552)
- Apollonius of Perga (Asia Minor, 265 B.C. - 170 B.C.)
- Antoine Arbogast (France, 1759 - 1803)
- Archimedes (Syracuse, 287 B.C. - 212 B.C.)
- Cahit Arf (Turkey, 1910 - 1997)
- Jean-Robert Argand (France, 1768 - 1822)
- Yoriyuki Arima (Japan, 1714-1783)
- Aristotle (Greece, 384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)
- Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd (1937 - )
- Emil Artin (Austria, 1898 - 1962)
- Arzachel (Al-Zarqali) (Muslim Spain, 1028-1087)
- Michael Aschbacher, (1944 - )
- Michael Francis Atiyah (Britain, 1929 - )
- George Atwood (Britain, 1746 - 1807)
B
Ba
- Charles Babbage (United Kingdom, 1791 - 1871)
- Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (France, 1581 - 1638)
- Paul Bachmann (Germany, 1837 - 1920)
- John C. Baez (USA, 1961 - )
- Albert Victor Bäcklund (Germany, 1845-1912)
- Alan Baker (Britain, 1939 - )
- H. F. Baker
- Stefan Banach (Poland, 1892 - 1945)
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, (Israel, 1915-1975)
- Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russia, USA, 1927 - )
- Charlotte Barnum (1860-1934)
- Isaac Barrow (England, 1630 - 1677)
- Jon Barwise (US, 1942 - 2000)
- David Bates
- Thomas Bayes (England, 1702 - 1761)
Be-Bl
- Eric Temple Bell (Scotland, USA, 1883 - 1960)
- Eugenio Beltrami (Italy, 1835-1900)
- Elwyn Berlekamp (USA)
- Jakob Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1654 - 1705)
- Johann Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1667 - 1748)
- Daniel Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1700 - 1782)
- Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand (France, 1822 - 1900)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784 - 1846)
- Arne Beurling (Sweden, 1905-1986)
- Étienne Bézout (France, 1730–1783)
- Bhaskara (India, 1114 - 1185)
- Luigi Bianchi (Italy,1856-1928)
- Ludwig Bieberbach (Germany, 1886 - 1982)
- Biruni (Persian Empire, 973 - 1048)
- Errett Bishop (1928 - 1983)
- Gertrude Blanch (1898 - 1996)
- Danilo Blanusa, (Croatia, 1903 - 1987)
- Wilhelm Blaschke
- Lenore Blum (1942- )
Bo-Br
- Harald Bohr (Denmark, 1887 - 1951)
- Béla Bollobás
- Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai (Hungary, 1775 - 1856)
- János Bolyai (Hungary, 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)
- Louis de Branges de Bourcia (French, 1932 - )
- Richard Brauer (Germany, 1901 - 1977)
- Henry Briggs (Britain, 1561 - 1630)
- William Brouncker (Britain, 1620 - 1684)
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (Netherlands, 1881 - 1966)
- Viggo Brun (Norway, 1885 - 1978)
Bu
- Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev (Russia, 1859-1962)
- William Burnside (UK, 1852-1927)
C
Ca-Ce
- Eugenio Calabi, (United States)
- Georg Ferdinand Cantor (Germany, 1845 - 1918)
- Constantin Carathéodory (Germany, 1873 - 1950)
- Gerolamo Cardano (Italy, 1501 - 1576)
- Robert Daniel Carmichael (USA, 1879 - 1967)
- G. S. Carr (England, 1837)
- Élie Cartan (France, April 9, 1869 - May 6, 1951)
- 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 Cesàro (Italy, March 12, 1859 - September 12, 1906)
- Ludolph van Ceulen (Germany/Netherlands, 1540 - 1610)
- Giovanni Ceva (Italy, 1648 - 1734)
Ch-Co
- Gulbank Don Chakerian (USA)
- Gregory J. Chaitin (USA, ca. 1950)
- Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) (France)
- Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, (Russia, May 16,1821 - December 8,1894)
- Chen Jingrun (China, May 22, 1933 - March 19, 1996)
- Shiing-shen Chern (October 26,1911 -December 3,2004)
- 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)
- Alexis Claude Clairaut (France)
- John Coates (Australia, born 1945)
- Paul Joseph Cohen (USA, 1934 - )
- Don Coppersmith
- Roger Cotes (England, 1682-1716)
- Zuanne de Tonini da Coi (Clolla) (16th century)
- Marquis de Condorcet (France, 1743 - 1794)
- Alain Connes (France, 1947 - )
- John H. Conway (Britain, 1937 - )
- H.S.M. Coxeter, (Britain and then Canada, 1907 - 2003)
Cr-Cu
- John Craig (Scotland, 1663 - 1731)
- Gabriel Cramer (Switzerland, 1704 - 1752)
- Harald Cramér (Sweden, 1893 - 1985)
- Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (UK, 1842 - 1928)
D
Da-De
- Francois d'Aguillon (Belgium, 1566 - 1617)
- Dan Sun (China)
- 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 - )
- Martin Davis (USA, 1928 -)
- Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind, (Germany, 1831 - 1916)
- Bruno de Finetti (Italy, 1906 - 1985)
- Max Dehn (Germany, 1878 - 1952}
- Boris Delaunay, (Russia, 1890 - 1980)
- Charles-Eugčne Delaunay, (France, 1816 - 1872)
- Pierre Deligne (Belgium, USA, 1944 - )
- Augustus de Morgan (India, Britain 1806 - 1871)
- René Descartes, (France, 1596 - 1650)
- Keith Devlin
- A. K. Dewdney, (Canada)
- Albrecht Dürer (Germany, 1471 - 1528)
Di-Dy
- Samuel Dickstein, (Poland, 1851 - 1939)
- Edsger Dijkstra (Netherlands, 1930 - 2002)
- Diophantus of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa 298 B.C. - 214 B.C.)
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (Germany, 1805 - 1859)
- Nathan Divinsky
- Simon Donaldson (Britain, 1957 - )
- Adrien Douady (France, 1935 - )
- Jesse Douglas (USA, 1897 - 1965)
- Vladimir Drinfeld (Ukraine, 1954 - )
- Underwood Dudley
- Martin Dunwoody
- Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (Germany)
- Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (USSR, 1924 - )
- Freeman John Dyson, (England, December 15,1923 - )
E
- Charles Ehresmann (France, 1905 - 1979)
- Samuel Eilenberg (Poland, 1913 - 1998)
- Albert Einstein (World, 1879 - 1955)
- Ferdinand Eisenstein (Germany, 1823 - 1852)
- William Emerson (England/United Kingdom, 1701 - 1782)
- Eratosthenes (Ptolemaic Egypt, 276 B.C. - 194 B.C.)
- Paul Erdös (Hungary, 1913 - 1996)
- Ernest Esclangon, (France 1876 - 1954)
- Euclid of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa 365 B.C. - 275 B.C.)
- Eudoxus of Cnidus (Asia Minor, circa 408 B.C. - circa 347 B.C.)
- Leonhard Euler (Switzerland, 1707 - 1783)
- Machgielis Euwe (Holland, 1901 - 1981)
F
- Francesco Faŕ di Bruno (Italy, 1825 - 1888)
- Gerd Faltings (Germany, 1954 - )
- Pierre Fatou (France, 1878 - 1929)
- Charles Fefferman (USA, 1949 - )
- Walter Feit (Austria/USA, 1390 - 2004)
- Lipót Fejér (Hungary)
- William Feller (Croatia 1906 - 1970)
- Pierre de Fermat (France, 1601 - 1665)
- Lodovico Ferrari (Italy, 1522 - 1565)
- Scipione del Ferro (Italy, February 6,1465 - November 5,1526)
- Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (Italy, 1170 - 1250)
- Thomas Fincke (Denmark, 1561 - 1656)
- Ronald Fisher (United Kingdom - 1962)
- Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (1903-1974)
- Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (Russia)
- Franc Forstneric (Slovenia, 1958- )
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, (France, 1768 - 1830)
- Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel (Germany, Israel, 1891 - 1965)
- Maurice Réné Fréchet (France, 1878 - 1973)
- Erik Ivar Fredholm (Norway)
- Michael Freedman (USA, 1951 - )
- Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925)
- Bernard Frénicle de Bessy (France, 1605 - 1675)
- Hans Freudenthal (Germany, the Netherlands, 1905 - 1990)
- Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (Germany, 1849 - 1917)
G
- Evariste Galois (France, 1811 - 1832)
- Martin Gardner (USA, 1914 - )
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777 - 1855)
- Hilda Geiringer von Mises (1893-1973)
- Gerhard Gentzen (Germany, 1909 - 1945)
- Joseph Diaz Gergonne (France, 1771-1859)
- Sophie Germain (France, 1776 - 1831)
- Jean-Yves Girard (France)
- Jean Giraud (France)
- James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
- Alain Glavieux, (France - d 2004)
- 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)
- William Timothy Gowers (Britain, 1963 - )
- Ronald Graham (USA)
- George Green (Britain, 1793 - 1841)
- Mikhail Gromov
- Hermann Günther Grassmann (Prussia, 1809 - 1877)
- Alexander Grothendieck (France, 1928 - )
- Paul Guldin (Switzerland, 1577 - 1643)
- András Gyárfás (Hungary)
H
Ha
- Alfréd Haar (Hungary, 1885-1933)
- Jacques Hadamard (France, 1865 - 1963)
- Hugo Hadwiger (Switzerland)
- Hans Hahn (Austria)
- András Hajnal (Hungary)
- Philip Hall (England, 1904 - 1982)
- Paul Richard Halmos (Hungary, USA, 1916 - )
- William Rowan Hamilton (Ireland, 1805 - 1865)
- John Hammersley
- Richard Hamming (USA, 1915-1998)
- Peter Andreas Hansen (Denmark, 1795 - 1874)
- Godfrey Harold Hardy (Britain, 1877 - 1947)
- Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (1851-1888)
- Mohsen Hashtroodi (Iran)
- Helmut Hasse
- Allen Hatcher (United States)
- Felix Hausdorff (Germany, 1869 - 1942)
He-Hy
- Oliver Heaviside
- Thomas Heath (England 1861 - 1940)
- Poul Heegaard
- Eduard Heine (Germany, 1821-1881)
- Leon Henkin
- Jacques Herbrand
- Charles Hermite (France, 1822 - 1901)
- Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
- Otto Hesse
- Carl Einar Heuman (USA, 1894 - 1980)
- David Hilbert (Germany, 1862 - 1943)
- George William Hill (USA, 1838 - 1914)
- Einar Carl Hille (USA, 1894 - 1980)
- 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)
- Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629 - 1695)
- Witold Hurewicz(Poland 1904-1956)
- Adolf Hurwitz
- Hypatia (Egypt, d. 415)
I
- James Ivory (Scotland 1765 - 1842))
- Kiyosi Itô (Japan 1915 - )
J
- Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (Germany, 1804 - 1851)
- Nathan Jacobson (Poland, USA, 1910 - 1999)
- Zygmunt Janiszewski (Poland, 1888 - 1920)
- Harold Jeffreys (Britain)
- Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones (New Zealand, USA, 1952 - )
- Camille Jordan (France, 1838 - 1922)
- Gaston Maurice Julia (Algeria, France, 1893 - 1978)
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)
- Edward Kasner (USA, )
- Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (Germany, 1719 - 1800)
- Omar Khayyám (Iran, 1028 - 1123)
- Alfred Bray Kempe (England, 1849 - 1922)
- Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571 - 1630)
- Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (USSR, 1894 - 1959)
- Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing (Germany, 1847 – 1923)
- Stephen Cole Kleene (USA, 1909 - 1994)
- Felix Klein (Germany, 1849 - 1925)
- Donald Knuth (USA, 1938 - )
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (Russia, 1899 - 1999)
- Kunihiko Kodaira (Japan, 1915 - 1997)
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russia, 1903 - 1987)
- Helge von Koch (Sweden, 1870 - 1924)
- Denes König (Hungary, 1884 - 1944)
- Maxim Kontsevich (Russia, 1964 - )
- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russia, 1850 - 1891)
- Christian Kramp, France, (1760 - 1826)
- Cecilia Krieger (1894-1974)
- Leopold Kronecker (Silesia/Germany, 1823 - 1891)
- Wolfgang Krull Germany, (1899 - 1971)
- Ernst Eduard Kummer (Germany, 1810 - 1893
- Kazimierz Kuratowski (Poland, 1896 - 1980)
- Martin Wilhelm Kutta (Silesia/Germany, 1867 - 1944)
L
La
- Miklós Laczkovich (Hungary)
- Laurent Lafforgue (France, 1966 - )
- Joseph-Louis de Lagrange (France, 1736 - 1813)
- Edmond Laguerre (France, 1834 - 1886)
- Ivo Lah (Slovenia, 1896 - 1979)
- Antoine de Laloubčre (France, 1600 - 1664)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert (Germany, 1728 - 1777)
- Edmund Landau (Germany, 1877 - 1938)
- Serge Lang
- Robert Langlands (Canada, USA, 1936 - )
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (France, 1749 - 1827)
- Estienne de La Roche (France, 1470-1530)
- Emanuel Lasker (Germany, 1868 - 1941)
- Mikhail Lavrentyev (Russia, 1900-1980)
- Ruth Lawrence
- F. W. Lawvere
- Gaspar Lax (Spain, 1487-1560)
- Peter David Lax (USA, 1926)
Le-Ll
- 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, 1886 - 1939)
- David Levermore (USA, )
- Tullio Levi-Civita (Italy, 1873-1941)
- Norman Levinson (USA, 1912-1975)
- Paul Pierre Lévy (France, 1886-1971)
- Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (France, 1661 - 1704)
- Sophus Lie (Norway, 1842 - 1899)
- Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (Finland, 1870 - 1946)
- Ferdinand von Lindemann (Germany, 1852 - 1939)
- Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (Russia, 1915 - 1972)
- Jacques-Louis Lions (France, 1928 - 2001)
- Joseph Liouville (France, 1809 - 1882)
- Rudolf Lipschitz (Germany, 1832-1903)
- Jules Antoine Lissajous (France, 1822 - 1880)
- John Edensor Littlewood
- Liu Hui (劉徽, China, 200s)
- Ramon Llull (Spain, 1235-1316)
Lo-Ly
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russia, 1792 - 1856)
- Alfred Loewy (Germany, 1873-1935)
- Alfred J. Lotka (1880--1949)
- László Lovász (Hungary, 1947 - )
- Ada Lovelace (England, 1815-1852)
- Leopold Löwenheim (Germany, 1878-1957)
- François-Édouard-Anatole Lucas (France, 1842 - 1891)
- Jan Łukasiewicz (Poland, 1878-1956)
- Nikolai Luzin (Russia, 1883-1950)
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, (Russia, 1857 - 1918)
- Aleksei Lyapunov , (Russia)
- Lazar Lyusternik
- Ernest Lytle
M
Ma-Me
- Sheila Scott Macintyre (Scotland, 1910-1960)
- George Mackey
- Saunders Mac Lane (USA, 1909 - )
- Colin Maclaurin (Scotland, 1698 - 1746)
- Jessie MacWilliams (England, USA, 1917 - 1990)
- Karl Mahlburg (USA)
- Stéphane Mallat (France, USA)
- Etienne-Louis Malus (France, 1775 - 1812)
- Benoît Mandelbrot (Poland, France, USA, 1924 - )
- Józef 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)
- Stefan Mazurkiewicz (Poland)
- Curtis T. McMullen (USA, 1958 - )
- Menelaus of Alexandria (Egypt ca 70- ca 140)
- Karl Menger (Austria/USA, 1902 - 1985)
- James Mercer (England, 1883 - 1932)
- Marin Mersenne (France, 1588 - 1648)
- Franz Mertens (Germany, 1840 - 1927)
- Nicholas Metropolis (USA, 1915 - 1999)
Mi-Mu
- Preda Mihailescu (Romania, Switzerland 1955 - )
- 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)
- Theodor Molien (Russia, USSR, Latvia 1861 - 1941)
- Gaspard Monge (France, 1746 - 1818)
- Shigefumi Mori (Japan, 1951 - )
- Marston Morse (USA, 1892 - 1977)
- Bernhard Morin
- Theodore Motzkin (Germany, USA, 1908 - 1970)
- Jean Moufot (France, 1784 - 1842)
- Thomas Muir (UK, 1844 - 1934)
- David Mumford (Britain, USA, 1937 - )
N
- John Napier (Scotland, 1550 - 1617)
- John Forbes Nash (USA, 1928 - )
- Edward Nelson
- Otto Neugebauer
- John von Neumann (Hungary, USA, 1903 - 1957)
- Rolf Nevanlinna (Finland, 1895 - 1980)
- Simon Newcomb (USA, 1835 - 1909)
- James R. Newman
- Isaac Newton (Britain, 1643 - 1727)
- Jakob Nielsen (Denmark, 1890 – 1959)
- Ivan Niven (Canada, USA, 1915-1999)
- Nilakantha Somayaji (India, 1444 - 1544)
- Emmy Noether (Germany, 1882 - 1935)
- Landon Curt Noll (USA)
- Simon P. Norton
- Sergei Petrovich Novikov (Russia, 1938 - )
- Petr Sergeevich Novikov (Russia, 1901 - 1935)
- John Nunn (England, 1955- )
- Kristen Nygaard (Norway, 1926 - 2002)
O
- Nicole Oresme (France, circa. 1323 - 1382)
- Wladyslaw Orlicz (Poland 1903 - 1990)
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (Russia, 1801 - 1862)
- Alexander Markovich Ostrowski (Russia, 1893 - 1986)
- Jacques Ozanam (France, 1640 - 1717)
P
- Henri Pade (France, 1863 - 1953)
- Paul Painlevé (France, 1863 - 1933)
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (Russia, 1899 - 1999)
- Pappus of Alexandria (Greece, ca. 260 B.C. - ?)
- Blaise Pascal (France, 1623 - 1662)
- Giuseppe Peano (Italy, 1858 - 1932)
- Benjamin Peirce (USA, 1809-1880)
- John Pell (England, 1610 - 1685)
- Grisha Perelman (Russia, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Saint Petersburg)
- Roger Penrose (England, 1931 - )
- Julius Petersen (Denmark, 1839 - 1910)
- Charles Emile Picard (France, 1856 - 1941)
- Georg Alexander Pick (Austria 1859 - 1943)
- Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (India, 1901 - 1950)
- Michel Plancherel (Switzerland, 1885 - 1967)
- Josip Plemelj (Slovenia, 1873 - 1967)
- Simon Plouffe (Canada, 1956 - )
- Jules-Henri Poincaré, (France, 1854 - 1912)
- Louis Poinsot, (France, 1777 - 1859)
- Alphonse de Polignac (France, 1817-1890)
- Siméon-Denis Poisson (France, 1781 - 1840)
- George Polya (Hungary, USA, 1887 - 1985)
- Jean-Victor Poncelet (France, 1788 - 1867)
- Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (USSR, 1908-1988)
- Emil Post (Poland, USA 1897 - 1954)
- Victor Alexandre Puiseux (France, 1820 - 1883)
- Georg Purbach (Germany, 1423-1461)
- Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro (USSR, Israel)
- Pythagoras of Samos (Greece 582 B.C. - 496 B.C.))
Q
- Daniel Quillen (USA, 1940 - )
- Qin Jiushao (China, 1202-1261)
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)
- Kurt Reidemeister (Germany, 1893 - 1971)
- Marian Rejewski (Poland, 1905 - 1980)
- Alfréd Rényi (Hungary)
- Georges de Rham (Switzerland, 1903 - 1990)
- Ken A. Ribet (USA)
- Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Italy, 1853 - 1925)
- Jules Richard (France, 1862 - 1956)
- Lewis Fry Richardson (Britain, 1881 - 1953)
- Bernhard Riemann (Germany, 1826 - 1866)
- Adam Riese (Germany, 1492 - 1559)
- Riesz Frigyes (Hungary, 1880 - 1956)
- Herbert Robbins (USA, 1922 - 2001)
- Abraham Robinson (Israel, UK, Canada, USA, 1918 - 1974)
- Julia Robinson (USA, 1919 - 1985)
- Gustav Roch (Germany, 1839 - 1866)
- Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (USSR, 1919 - 1984)
- Michel Rolle (France, 1652 - 1719)
- Adriaan van Roomen (Belgium, 1561 - 1615)
- Gian-Carlo Rota (Italy, USA, 1932 - 1999)
- Klaus Roth (Germany, Britain, 1925 - )
- W. W. Rouse Ball (1850 - 1925)
- Edward John Routh (Canada, Britain, 1831 - 1907)
- Carle David Tolme Runge (Germany, 1856 - 1927)
- Bertrand Russell (Britain, 1872 - 1970)
S
Sa-Sh
- Michael Saks (USA)
- Stanislaw Saks (Poland, 1897 - 1942)
- Juliusz Schauder (Poland, 1899 - 1943)
- Erhard Schmidt (Germany, 1876 - 1959)
- L. G. Schnirelmann (USSR)
- Moses Schönfinkel (USSR)
- Arthur Moritz Schönflies (Germany, 1853 - 1928)
- Frans van Schooten (Netherlands, 1615 - 1660)
- Richard Schroeppel (USA)
- Issai Schur (Russia, Germany, Israel, 1875 - 1941)
- Laurent Schwartz (France, 1915 - 2002)
- Herrmann Amandus Schwarz (Germany, 1843 - 1921)
- Dana Scott (USA, 1932 - )
- Herbert Seifert (Germany, 1907 - 1996)
- Seki Kowa (Japan, 1642 - 1708)
- Atle Selberg (Norway, USA, 1917 - )
- Reinhard Selten (Germany, 1930 - )
- Jean-Pierre Serre (France, 1926 - )
- Adi Shamir (Israel, 1952 - )
- Claude Elwood Shannon (USA, 1916 - 2001)
- Saharon Shelah (Israel, 1945 - )
- Goro Shimura (Japan, 1930 - )
- Peter Shor (USA, 1959 - )
Si-Sp
- Carl Ludwig Siegel (Germany, 1896 - 1981)
- Waclaw Sierpinski (Poland, 1882 - 1969)
- Isadore Singer (USA)
- Thoralf Skolem (Norway)
- Neil Sloane (USA, ???? - )
- Stephen Smale (USA, 1930 - )
- Henry John Stephen Smith (England, 1826 - 1883)
- Robert Smith (UK)
- Willebrord van Roijen Snell (Netherlands, 1580 - 1626)
- Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (USSR, 1908 - 1989)
- Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (Russia, 1842 - 1927)
- Mary Fairfax Somerville (UK, 1780 - 1872)
- Halil Mete Soner (Turkey)
- Robert Sorgenfrey (USA, 1915 - 1996)
- Jean-Marie Souriau
- Donald C. Spencer
- Emanuel Sperner (Germany, 1905 - 1980)
- Michael Spivak
- Sporus of Nicaea (Asia Minor, circa 240 B.C. - circa 300 B.C.)
- William Spottiswoode (England, 1825 - 1883)
St-Sz
- Link Starbureiy
- Norman Steenrod (USA)
- Jožef Stefan (Austria-Hungary, Slovenia 1835-1893)
- Vladimir Steklov (Russia, 1864 - 1926)
- Hugo Steinhaus (Poland, 1887 - 1972)
- Jakob Steiner (Switzerland, 1796 - 1863)
- Simon Stevin (Netherlands, 1548 - 1620)
- Ian Stewart (UK)
- Matthew Stewart (Scotland, 1717 - 1785)
- Michael Stifel (Germany, 1487 - 1567)
- Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (Netherlands, 1856 - 1894)
- James Stirling (Scotland, 1692 - 1770)
- George Gabriel Stokes (Ireland, Britain, 1819 - 1903)
- Marshall Harvey Stone
- Volker Strassen
- Dirk Jan Struik (Netherlands, 1894-2000)
- Eduard Study
- Dennis Sullivan (US)
- Ludwig Sylow (Norway, 1832 - 1918)
- James Joseph Sylvester (England, 1814 - 1897)
- Gábor Szegö (Hungary, 1895 - 1985)
- Endre Szemerédi
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 Teichmüller (Germany, 1913 - 1943)
- Thales of Miletus, (circa B.C.624 - B.C.547 )
- Thorvald Thiele
- René Thom (France, 1923 - )
- John Griggs Thompson (USA, 1932 - )
- Axel Thue (Norway)
- William Thurston (1946 - )
- Jacques Tits (Belgium, 1930 - )
- Otto Toeplitz
- Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (Spain, 1852 - 1936)
- László Fejes Tóth (Hungary)
- 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
- Pál Turán (Hungary)
- Alan Turing (Britain, 1912 - 1954)
- Helge Tverberg
- Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff (USSR, 1906 - 1993)
- Vera T.Sós (Hungary)
U
- Stanislaw Marcin Ulam (Poland, USA, 1909 - 1984)
- Uqlidisi (Middle East, 920 - 990)
- Paul Samuilovich Urysohn (USSR, 1898 - 1924)
- J. V. Uspensky (1883 - 1947)
V
- Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (France)
- Vladimir Vapnik (Russia)
- Oswald Veblen
- Jurij Vega (Slovenia, 1754 - 1802)
- Pierre Vernier
- Ivan Vidav (Slovenia, 1918 - )
- François Vičte (France, 1540 - 1603)
- Leopold Vietoris (Austria, 1891 - 2002)
- Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (USSR, 1891-1983)
- Giuseppe Vitali (Ravenna, Italy,1875-1932)
- Vladimir Voevodsky (Russia, 1966 - )
- Vito Volterra (Papal States, Italy, 1860 - 1940)
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)
- Joseph Wedderburn (Scotland, 1882-1948)
- 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 - )
- James H. Wilkinson (England, 1919 - 1986)
- John Wilson (England, 1741 - 1793)
- Edward Witten (USA, 1951 - )
- Joseph Wolstenholme (England, 1829 - 1891)
- Christopher Wren (England, 1632 - 1723)
- E. M. Wright
- Josef Wronski (Poland, 1778 - 1853)
Y
- Yang Hui (China, c. 1238 - c. 1298)
- Shing-Tung Yau (China, USA, 1949 - )
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (France, 1957 - )
- Yoneda Nobuo (Japan, 1930-1996)
- Alfred Young (England, 1873-1940)
- Grace Chisholm Young (UK, 1868-1944)
- Kosaku Yosida (Japan)
Z
- Kazimierz Zarankiewicz (Poland 1902 - 1959)
- Stanislaw Zaremba (Poland 1863 - 1942)
- Hans Julius Zassenhaus (Germany, May 28,1912 - November 21,1991)
- Edouard Zeckendorf (Belgium, May 2, 1901 - May 16, 1983)
- 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)
- Zu Chongzhi (China, 429 - 500)
- Herbert Samuel Zuckerman (1912 - 1970)
- Antoni Zygmund (Poland 1900 - 1992)
See also
External links
- The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive – Very complete list of detailed biographies.
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