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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