MATHEMATICIANS
• Abbott, Edwin
Abbott (1838–1926) • Abel,
Niels Henrik (1802–1829) • Abu'l
Wafa al-Buzjani (AD 940–998) •
Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (17181799) •
Ahrens, Wilhelm Ernst Martin Georg (1872–1927)
• Aiken, Howard (1900–1973)
• Alcuin (735–804)
• Alembert, Jean
Le Rond d' (1717–1783) • Alhazen
(Abu Ali al Hassan ibn al Haitham) (c.965–c.1040) •
Al-Khowarizmi (c.780–850)
• Apollonius of Perge
(c.262–c.190 BC) •
Archimedes of Syracuse (c.287–212 BC)
• Archytas of
Tarentum (c.428–c.350 BC) •
Aristotle of Stagira (384–322 BC)
• Aryabhata the
Elder (AD 476–c.550) •
Atiyah, Michael Francis (1929–)
• Babbage, Charles
(1791–1871) • Bachet
de Méziriac, Claude-Gaspar (1581–1638) •
Ball, Walter Rouse (1850–1925)
• Banach, Stefan
(1892–1945) • Barbaro,
Daniele (1513–1570) • Barlow,
Peter (1776–1862) • Barrow,
Isaac (1630–1677) • Bayes,
Thomas (1702–1761) • Bell,
Eric Temple (1883–1960) • Bernoulli
family • Bessel,
Friedrich Wilhelm (1784–1846) • Birkhoff,
George David (1884–1944) • Bólyai,
János (1802–1860) • Bonaparte,
Napoleon (1769–1821) • Boole
(Stott), Alicia (1860–1940) • Boole,
George (1815–1864) • Borel,
Emile (1871–1956) • Bourbaki,
Nicholas • Brahmagupta
(c. AD 598–c.665) •
Briggs, Henry (1561–1630) •
Bronowski, Jacob (1908–1974)
• Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus
Jan (1881–1966) • Buffon,
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707–1788) •
Byron, (Augusta) Ada (1815–1852)
• Cantor, Georg
Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp (1845–1918) •
Cardano, Girolamo (1501–1570)
• Carroll, Lewis (1832–1898)
• Cauchy, Augustin
Louis, Baron (1789–1857) • Cayley,
Arthur (1821–1895) • Ceva,
Giovanni (1647–1734) • Chaitin,
Gregory (1947–) • Church,
Alonzo (1903–1995) • Clairaut,
Alexis Claude (1713–1765) • Clifford,
William Kingdon (1845–1879) • Conway,
John Horton (1937–) • Coxeter,
Harold Scott MacDonald (1907–2003) •
de Moivre, Abraham (1667–1754)
• de Morgan, Augustus
(1806–1871) • Dedekind,
(Julius Wilhelm) Richard (1831–1916) •
Dee, John (1527–1609) •
Desargues, Girard (1591–1661)
• Descartes, René
(1596–1650) • Dewdney,
Alexander Keewatin (1941–) • Diocles
(c.240–c.180 BC) •
Diophantus of Alexandria (AD
c.200–c.284) • Dirac,
Paul Adrien Maurice (1902–1984) •
Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune (1805–1859)
• Dodgson, Charles
Lutwidge (Lewis Carroll) • Dudeney,
Henry Ernest (1857–1930) • Dunsany,
Edward Plunkett (Lord) (1878–1957) •
Dürer, Albrecht (1471–1528)
• Eratosthenes
of Cyrene (c.276–c.194 BC) •
Erdös, Paul (1913–1996) •
Escher, M(aurits) C(ornelius) (1898–1972)
• Euclid of Alexandria
(c.330–270 BC) •
Eudemus of Rhodes (4th century BC)
• Eudoxus of Cnidus
(c.400–c.347 BC) •
Euler, Leonhard (1707–1783)
• Fadiman, Cliftom (1904–1999)
• Fermat, Pierre
de (1601–1665) • Fibonacci,
Leonardo (c.1175–1250) • Fisher,
Adrian • Fourier,
(Jean Baptiste) Joseph, Baron (1768–1830) •
Fredholm, Erik Ivar (1866–1927)
• Frege, Friedrich Ludwig
Gottlob (1848–1925) • Frénicle
de Bessy, Bernard (1602–1675) • Friedmann,
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1888–1925) •
Galileo (Galilei, Galileo) (1564–1642)
• Galois, Évariste
(1811–1832) • Galton,
Francis (1822–1911) • Gamow,
George (1904–1968) • Gardner,
Martin (1914–2010) • Gauss,
Carl Friedrich (1777–1855) • Germain,
Sophie (1776–1831) • Gödel,
Kurt (1906–1978) • Golomb,
Solomon W. (1932–) • Graham,
Ronald L. (1932–) • Green,
George (1793–1841) • Guy,
Richard Kenneth (1916–) • Hamilton,
William Rowan (1805–1865) • Hardy,
G(odfrey) H(arold) (1877–1947) •
Hausdorff, Felix (1868–1942)
• Hein, Piet (1905–1996)
• Hermite, Charles
(1822–1901) • Hero
of Alexandria (1st century AD) •
Hilbert, David (1862–1943) •
Hinton, Charles Howard (1853–1907)
• Hippias of Elis
(fl. 5th century BC) •
Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1945–)
• Hogben, Lancelot
Thomas (1895–1975) • Hôpital,
Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l' (1661–1704) •
Hunter, J(ames) A(lston) H(ope) •
Huygens, Christiaan (1629–1695)
• Hypatia of Alexandria
(c. AD 370–417) •
Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob (1804–1851)
• Jordan, (Marie-Ennemond)
Camille (1838–1922) • Kasner,
Edward (1876–1955) • Kepler,
Johannes (1571–1630) • Kirkman,
Thomas Penyngton (1806–1895) • Klein,
Christian Felix (1849–1925) • Kolmogorov,
Andrei Nikolaievich (1903–1987) •
Kovalevski, Sonya (1850–1891)
• Kronecker, Leopold
(1823–1891) • Lagrange,
Joseph Louis de (1736–1813) • Lambert,
Johann Heinrich (1728–1777) • Laplace,
Pierre Simon de (1749–1827) • Lebesgue,
Henri Léon (1875–1941) • Legendre,
Adrien Marie (1752–1833) • Leibniz,
Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646–1716) •
Leurechon, Jean (c.1591–1670)
• Lie, Marius Sophus (1842–1899)
• Lobachevsky,
Nikolai Ivanovich (1793–1856) • Loyd,
Sam (1841–1911) • Lucas,
(Francois) Edouard (Anatole) (1842–1891) •
Maclaurin, Colin (1698–1746)
• MacMahon, Percy Alexander
(1854–1929) • Mandelbrot,
Benoit B. (1924–2010) • Maupertuis,
Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698–1759) •
mathematical lifespan
• Menaechmus (c.380–c.320
BC) • Mersenne,
Marin (1588–1648) • Minkowski,
Hermann (1864–1909) • Mittag-Leffler,
(Magnus) Gösta (1846–1927) • Moivre,
Abraham de (1667–1754) • Monge,
Gaspard (1746–1818) • Montucla,
Jean Etienne (1725–1799) • Mydorge,
Claude (1585–1647) • Napier,
John (1550–1617) • Nash,
John Forbes Jr. (1928–) • Newton,
Isaac (1642–1727) • Noether,
Emmy (Amalie) (1882–1935) •
Omar Khayyaam (1048–1122) •
Oresme, Nicole •
Oughtred, William (1574–1660)
• Ozanam, Jacques (1640–1717)
• Pacioli,
Luca (1445–1517) • Pappus
of Alexandria (lived c. AD 300) •
Pascal, Blaise (1623–1662) •
Peano, Guiseppe (1858–1932) •
Pearson, Keith (1857–1936)
• Penrose, Roger (1931–)
• Perelman, Yakov
Isidorovitch (1882–1942) • Perigal,
Henry (1801–1898) • Plato
(428–348 BC) •
Poincare, (Jules) Henri (1854–1912)
• Poinsot, Louis
(1777–1859) • Poisson,
Siméon Denis (1781–1840) •
Poncelet, Jean Victor (1788–1867)
• Pythagoras
of Samos (c.569–c.500 BC) •
Ramanujan, Srinivasa Aaiyangar (1887–1920)
• Recorde, Robert
(c.1510–1558) • Riemann,
(Georg Friedrich) Bernhard (1826–1866) •
Robinson, Abraham (1918–1974)
• Rucker, Rudy (Rudolf
von Bitter) (1946–) • Russell,
Bertrand Arthur William (1872–1970) •
Saccheri, Giovanni Girolamo (1667–1733)
• Schläfli,
Ludwig (1814–1895) • Schwarzschild,
Karl (1873–1916) • Shannon,
Claude Elwood (1916–2001) • Sierpinski,
Waclaw Franciszek (1882–1969) • Smullyan,
Raymond (1919–) • Stanhope,
Earl of • Steiner,
Jakob (1796–1863) • Steinhaus,
Hugo Dyonizy (1887–1972) • Stevinus,
Simon (1548–1620) • Sylvester,
James Joseph (1814–1897) • Tait,
Peter Guthrie (1831–1901) • Tarry,
Gaston (1843–1913) • Tarski,
Alfred (1902–1983) • Tartaglia,
Niccoló Fontana (1499–1557) • Thales
of Miletus (c.624–545 BC) •
Thomson, D'Arcy Wentworth (1860–1948)
• Turing, Alan Mathison
(1912–1954) • Ulam,
Stanislaw Marcin (1909–1984) •
Veblen, Oswald (1880–1960) •
Von Neumann, John (1903–1957)
• Wallis, John
(1616–1703) • Weierstrass,
Karl Wilhelm Theodor (1815–1897) •
Wessel, Caspar (1745–1818) •
Weyl, Hermann Klaus Hugo (1885–1955)
• Whitehead,
Alfred North (1861–1947) • Wiener,
Norbert (1894–1964) • Wiles,
Andrew (1953–) • Zöllner,
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