Mathematician
Scientist whose area of study is mathematics.
Some famous mathematicians are listed below in alphabetic order (by surnames).
A
- Niels Henrik Abel (Norway, 1802-1829)
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Italy, 1718-1799)
- Lars Valerian Ahlfors (Finland, 1907-1996)
- Jean-Lerond d'Alembert (Germany, 1717-1783)
- Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (Abbasid Caliphate, 780-850)
- Alexander Anderson (Scotland, 1582-1620)
- Andre Marie Ampere (France, 1775-1836)
- Apollonius (Perga, 265 BC-170 BC)
- Archimedes (Syracuse, 287 BC - 212 BC)
- Vladimir Arnol'd (Russia, 1937 -)
- Michael Francis Atiyah (Britain, 1929 -)
B
- Charles Babbage (United Kingdom, 1791-1871)
- Alan Baker (Britain, 1939 -)
- Stefan Banach (Poland, 1892-1945)
- Grigory Barenblatt (???? -)
- Isaac Barrow (England, 1630-1677)
- Jakob Bernoulli (Germany, 1654-1705)
- Johann Bernoulli (Germany, 1667-1748)
- Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand (France, 1822-1900)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784-1846)
- Farkos Wolfgang Bolyai (Romania, 1775-1856)
- Janos Bolyai (Romania, 1802-1860)
- Bernhard Bolzano (Bohemia, 1781-1848)
- Enrico Bombieri (Italy, 1940 -)
- George Boole (Britain, 1815-1864)
- Richard Ewen Borcherds (Britain, 1959 -)
- Karol Borsuk (Poland, 1905-1982)
- Jean Bourgain (Belgium, 1954 -)
- Henry Briggs (Britain, 1561-1630)
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (Netherlands, 1881-1966)
- Viggo Brun (Norway, 1885-1978)
C
- Georg Ferdinand Cantor (Germany, 1845-1918)
- Gerolamo Cardano (Italy, 1501-1576)
- 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, 1859-1906)
- Ludolph van Ceulen (Germany, 1540-1610)
- Gregory Chaitin (???? -)
- Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Russia, 1821-1894)
- Paul J. Cohen (USA, 1934 -)
- Marquis de Condorcet (France, 1743-1794)
- Alain Connes (France, 1947 -)
- John Conway (Britain, 1937 -)
- Gabriel Cramer (Switzerland, 1704-1752)
D
- Germinal Pierre Dandelin (France, Belgium, 1794-1847)
- David van Dantzig (Netherlands, 1900-1959)
- George Dantzig (USA, 1914-)
- Richard Dedekind (Germany, 1831-1916)
- Pierre Deligne (Belgium, USA, 1944 -)
- Augustus de Morgan (India, 1806-1871)
- René Descartes (France, 1596-1650)
- Diophantus of Alexandria
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (Germany, 1805-1859)
- Simon Donaldson (Britain, 1957 -)
- Adrien Douady (???? -)
- Jesse Douglas (USA, 1897 - 1965)
- Vladimir Drinfeld (Ukraine, 1954 -)
- Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (USSR, 1924 -)
E
- Paul Erdös (Hungary, 1913-1996)
- Euclid of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, c. 365 BC-275 BC)
- Eudoxus of Cnidus (Asia Minor, 410 BC-347 BC)
- Leonhard Euler (Switzerland, 1707-1783)
F
- Gerd Faltings (Germany, 1954 -)
- Charles Fefferman (USA, 1949 -)
- Pierre de Fermat (France, 1601-1665)
- Lodovico Ferrari (Italy, 1522-1565)
- Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (France, 1768-1830)
- Adolf Fraenkel (Germany, 1891-1965)
- Michael Freedman (USA, 1951 -)
G
- Evariste Galois (France, 1811-1832)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777-1855)
- Sophie Germain (France, 1776-1831)
- Kurt Gödel (Germany, 1906-1978)
- Christian Goldbach (Germany, 1690-1764)
- William Sealey Gosset (Britain, 1876-1937)
- William Timothy Gowers (Britain, 1963 -)
- Hermann Günter Grassmann (Prussia, 1809-1877)
- Alexander Grothendieck (France, 1928 -)
- Guldin (Germany, 1577-1643)
H
- Jacques Hadamard (France, 1865-1963)
- William Rowan Hamilton (Britain, 1805-1865)
- Felix Hausdorff (Germany, 1869-1942)
- Charles Hermite (France, 1822-1901)
- David Hilbert (Germany, 1862-1943)
- Heisuke Hironaka (Japan, 1931 -)
- Vaclav Hlavaty (Czech Republic, 1894-1969)
- Lars Hörmander (Sweden, 1931 -)
- Guillaume Francois Antoine l'Hospital (France, 1661-1704)
- Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629-1695)
J
- Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (Germany, 1804-1851)
- Vaughan F.R. Jones (New Zealand, USA, 1952 -)
- Camille Jordan (France, 1838-1922)
K
- Mark Kac (Poland, USA, 1914-1984)
- Leonid Witaljewitsch Kantorowitsch (USSR, 1912-1986)
- Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (Germany, 1719-1800)
- Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571-1630)
- Felix Klein (Germany, 1849-1925)
- Donald Knuth (USA, ???? -)
- Kunihiko Kodaira (Japan, 1915 - 1997)
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russia, 1903-1987)
- Maxim Kontsevich (Russia, 1964 -)
- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaja (Russia, 1850-1891)
- Leopold Kronecker (Germany, 1823-1891)
- Kazimierz Kuratowski (Poland, 1896-1980)
- Martin Wilhelm Kutta (Germany, 1867-1944)
L
- Joseph-Louis de Lagrange (France, 1736-1813)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert (Germany, 1728-1777)
- Robert Langlands (Canada, USA, 1936 -)
- Pierre Simon Laplace (France, 1749-1827)
- Henri Leon Lebesgue (France, 1875-1941)
- Adrien-Marie Legendre (France, 1752-1833)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Germany, 1646-1716)
- Sophus Lie (Norway, 1842-1899)
- Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (Germany, 1852-1939)
- Jacques-Louis Lions (France, 1956 -)
- Nikolai Iwanowitsch Lobatschewski (Russia, 1792-1856)
M
- Saunders MacLane (USA, 1909 -)
- Colin Maclaurin (Scotland, 1698-1746)
- Grigory Margulis (USSR, USA, 1946 -)
- Andrei Andreevich Markov (Russia, 1856-1922)
- Jerrold Marsden (???? -)
- Curtis McMullen (USA, 1958 -)
- Marin Mersenne (France, 1588-1648)
- Franz Mertens (Germany, 1840-1927)
- John Milnor (USA 1931 -)
- Hermann Minkowski (Germany, 1864-1909)
- August Ferdinand Möbius (Germany, 1790-1868)
- Abraham de Moivre (France, 1667-1754)
- Gaspard Monge (France, 1746-1818)
- Shigefumi Mori (Japan, 1951 -)
- 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)
- 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)
P
- Blaise Pascal (France, 1623-1662)
- Giuseppe Peano (Italian, 1858-1932)
- Charles Emile Picard (France, 1856-1941)
- Josip Plemelj (Slovenia, 1873-1967)
- Henri Poincaré (France, 1854-1912)
- Simeon Denis Poisson (France, 1781-1840)
- George Polya (Hungary, USA, 1887-1985)
- Pythagoras of Samos (Greece)
Q
- Daniel Quillen (USA, 1940 -)
R
- Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan (India, 1887-1920)
- Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller, Germany, 1436-1476)
- Ken Ribet (USA, ???? -)
- Bernhard Riemann (Germany, 1826-1866)
- Adam Riese (Germany, 1492-1559)
- Klaus Roth (Germany, Britain, 1925 -)
- Carle David Tolme Runge (Germany, 1856-1927)
- Bertrand Russell (Britain, 1872-1970)
- Laurent Schwartz (France, 1915 -)
S
- K. Saradha (India, ???? -)
- Natarajan Saradha (India, ???? -)
- Philippe Satge (France, ???? -)
- Seki Kowa (Japan, 1642-1708)
- Atle Selberg (Norway, USA, 1917 -)
- Jean-Pierre Serre (France, 1926 -)
- Waclaw Sierpinski (Poland, 1882-1969)
- Neil Sloane (USA, ???? -)
- Stephen Smale (USA, 1930 -)
- Willebrord Snellius (Netherlands, 1580-1626)
- Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (Russia, 1842-1927)
- Jožef Stefan (Austro-Hungary, 1835-1893)
- 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)
- Ludwig Sylow (Norway, 1832-1918)
T
- Alfred Tarski (Poland, 1902-1983)
- Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (Republic of Venice, 1499-1557)
- Brook Taylor (Britain, 1685-1731)
- René Thom (France, 1923 -)
- John G Thompson (USA, 1932 -)
- William Thurston (1946 -)
- Jacques Tits (???? -)
- Ehrenfried Walter Tschiernhaus (Germany, 1651-1708)
- Alan Turing (Britain, 1912-1954)
- Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff (USSR, 1906-1993)
U
- Stanislaw Marcin Ulam (Poland, USA, 1909-1984)
- Uqlidisi (Middle East, 920-990)
- Paul Samuilovich Urysohn (USSR, 1898-1924)
V
- Jurij Vega (Austro-Hungary, 1754 -1802)
- Ivan Vidav (Slovenia, 1918 -)
- Francoise Viete (France, 1540-1603)
W
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (Netherlands, 1903-1996)
- Edward Waring (England, 1736-1798)
- Karl Weierstrass (Germany, 1815-1897)
- Andre Weil (France, 1906-1998)
- Andrew Wiles (Britain, 1953 -)
- Edward Witten (USA, 1951 -)
- Christopher Wren (England, 1632-1723)
Y
- Shing-Tung Yau (China, USA, 1949 -)
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (France, 1957 -)
Z
- Doron Zeilberger (Israel, USA, 1950 -)
- Efim Zelmanov (USSR, USA, 1955 -)
- Ernst Zermelo (Germany, 1871-1953)
- Zhang Heng (China, 78 - 139)
- Zhu Shijie (China, 1270-1330)
See Also: Slovene mathematicians, Astronomers, Physicists, Philosophers, Scientists
External Links
- The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive Very complete list of detailed biographies.
- Jeff Whittington's Biographical informations about many mathematicians Very usefull and concise view. Many known and unknown mathematical terms are also included.