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

• Vladimir Arnol'd
• Michael Francis Atiyah
• Alan Baker
• Grigory Barenblatt
• Enrico Bombieri
• Richard Borcherds
• Jean Bourgain
• Henri Cartan
• Pierre Cartier
• Gregory Chaitin
• Paul J. Cohen
• Alain Connes
• John Conway
• George Dantzig (USA, 1914-)
• Pierre Deligne
• Simon Donaldson
• Jesse Douglas
• Vladimir Drinfeld
• Eugene Borisovich Dynkin
• Adrien Douady
• Gerd Faltings
• Charles Fefferman
• Michael Freedman
• William T. Gowers
• Alexander Grothendieck
• Heisuke Hironaka
• Lars Hormander
• Vaughan F.R. Jones
• Donald Knuth
• Kunihiko Kodaira
• Maxim Kontsevich
• Robert Langlands
• Jacques-Louis Lions
• Grigory Margulis
• Jerrold Marsden
• Saunders McLane
• Curtis McMullen
• John Milnor
• Shigefumi Mori
• David Mumford
• John Nash
• Sergei Novikov
• Daniel Quillen
• Ken Ribet
• Klaus Roth
• Laurent Schwartz
• Atle Selberg
• Jean-Pierre Serre
• Neil Sloane
• Stephen Smale
• Rene Thom
• John G Thompson
• Jacques Tits
• William Thurston
• Andrew Wiles
• Edward Witten
• Shing-Tung Yau
• Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
• Doron Zeilberger
• Efim Zelmanov

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)

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External Links

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

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See Also: Physicists, Philosophers, scientist

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