Mathematician

Scientist whose area of study is mathematics

Some famous (living) mathematicians are listed below (in alphabetic order); see bottom of page for dead mathematicians.

Living Mathematicians

Dead Mathematicians

Niels Henrik Abel (Norway, 1802-1829]])
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Italy, 1718-1799)
Lars Valerian Ahlfors (Finland, 1907-1996)
Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (Abbasid Caliphate, c. 780-850)
Andre Marie Ampere (France, 1775-1836)
Appolonius of Perga
Archimedes (Syracuse, c. 287 - 212 B.C.)
Charles Babbage (United Kingdom, 1791-1871)
Stefan Banach (Poland, 1892-1945)
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)
George Boole (Britain, 1815-1864)
Karol Borsuk (Poland, 1905-1982)
Henry Briggs (Britain, 1561-1630)
L. E. J. Brouwer (Netherlands, 1881-1966)
Arthur Cayley (Britain, 1821-1895)
Georg Cantor (Germany, 1845-1918)
Geronimo Cardano (Italy, 1501-1576)
Augustin Louis Cauchy (France, 1789-1857)
Bonaventura Cavalieri (Italy, 1598-1647)
Ernesto Cesaro (Italy, 1859-[1906]])
Ludolph van Ceulen (Germany, 1540-1610)
Gabriel Cramer (Switzerland, 1704-1752)
Jean-Lerond d'Alembert (Germany, 1717-1783)
Germinal Pierre Dandelin (France, Belgium, 1794-1847)
David van Dantzig (Netherlands, 1900-1959)
Richard Dedekind (Germany, 1831-1916)
Augustus de Morgan (India, 1806-1871)
René Descartes (France, 1596-1650)
Diophantus of Alexandria
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (Germany, 1805-1859)
Paul Erdős (Hungary, 1913-1996)
Euclid of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, c. 325-265 BC)
Eudoxus of Cnidus (Asia Minor, 408-355 BC)
Leonhard Euler (Switzerland, 1707-1783)
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)
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)
Hermann Günter Grassmann (Prussia, 1809-1877)
Guldin (Germany, 1577-1643)
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)
Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629-1695)
Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (Germany, 1804-1851)
Camille Jordan (France, 1838-1922)
Leonid Witaljewitsch Kantorowitsch (Soviet Union, 1912-1986)
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (Germany, 1719-1800)
Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571-1630)
Felix Klein (Germany, 1849-1925)
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russia, 1903-1987)
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaja (Russia, 1850-1891)
Leopold Kronecker (Germany, 1823-1891)
Kazimierz Kuratowski (Poland, 1896-1980)
Martin Wilhelm Kutta (Germany, 1867-1944)
Joseph-Louis de Lagrange (France, 1736-1813)
Johann Heinrich Lambert (Germany, 1728-1777)
Pierre Simon Laplace (France, 1749-1827)
Henri Leon Lebesgue (France, 1875-1941)
Adrien-Marie Legendre (France, 1752-1833)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Germany, 1646-1716)
Guillaume Francois Antoine l'Hospital (France, 1661-1704)
Sophus Lie (Norway, 1842-1899)
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (Germany, 1852-1939)
Nikolai Iwanowitsch Lobatschewski (Russia, 1792-1856)
Colin Maclaurin (Scotland, 1698-1746)
Andrei Andreevich Markov (Russia, 1856-1922)
Marin Mersenne (France, 1588-1648)
Hermann Minkowski (Germany, 1864-1909)
August Ferdinand Möbius (Germany, 1790-1868)
Abraham de Moivre (France, 1667-1754)
Gaspard Monge (France, 1746-1818)
John Napier (Scotland, 1550-1617)
John von Neumann (Hungary, USA, 1903-1957)
Isaac Newton (Britain, 1643-1727)
Emmy Noether (Germany, 1882-1935)
Blaise Pascal (France, 1623-1662)
Giuseppe Peano (Italian, 1858-1932)
Henri Poincaré (France, 1854-1912)
Simeon Denis Poisson (France, 1781-1840)
George Polya (Hungary, USA, 1887-1985)
Pythagoras of Samos (Greece)
Srinivasa Ramanujan (India, 1887-1920)
Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller, Germany, 1436-1476)
Bernhard Riemann (Germany, 1826-1866)
Adam Riese (Germany, 1492-1559)
Carle David Tolme Runge (Germany, 1856-1927)
Bertrand Russell (Britain, 1872-1970)
Waclaw Sierpinski (Poland, 1882-1969)
Willebrord Snellius (Netherlands, 1580-1626)
Jakob Steiner (Switzerland, 1796-1863)
Simon Stevin (Netherlands, 1548-1620)
Michael Stifel (Germany, 1487-1567)
James Stirling (Scotland, 1692-1770)
Ludwig Sylow (Norway, 1832-1918)
Alfred Tarski (Poland, 1902-1983)
Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (Republic of Venice, 1499-1557)
Brook Taylor (Britain, 1685-1731)
Pafnuty Lvovich Tschebyschow (Russia, 1821-1894)
Ehrenfried Walter Tschiernhaus (Germany, 1651-1708)
Alan Turing (Britain, 1912-1954)
Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff (Soviet Union, 1906-1993)
Stanislaw Ulam (Poland, USA, 1909-1984)
Paul Samuilovich Urysohn (Soviet Union, 1898-1924)
Francoise Viete (France, 1540-1603)
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (Netherlands, 1903-1996)
Edward Waring (England, 1736-1798)
Karl Weierstrass (Germany, 1815-1897)
Andre Weil (France, 1906-1998)
Christopher Wren (England, 1632-1723)
Ernst Zermelo (Germany, 1871-1953)

External Links

The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive Very complete list of detailed biographies

See Also: Physicists, Philosophers, scientist

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