Mathematician

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A mathematician is a 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 B.C.-170 B.C.)
Archimedes (Syracuse, 287 B.C. - 212 B.C.)
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 Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russia, USA, 1927-)
Isaac Barrow (England, 1630-1677)
Jakob Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1654-1705)
Johann Bernoulli (Switzerland, 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 -)
Carl Benjamin Boyer (American, 1906-1976)
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 J. Chaitin (USA, ???? -)
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-)
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (Germany, 1831-1916)
Pierre Deligne (Belgium, USA, 1944 -)
Augustus de Morgan (India, 1806-1871)
René Descartes (France, 1596-1650)
Diophantus of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa 298 B.C.-214 B.C.)
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

Eratosthenes (Ptolemaic Egypt, 276 B.C.-194 B.C.)
Paul Erdös (Hungary, 1913-1996)
Euclid of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa 365 B.C.-275 B.C.)
Eudoxus of Cnidus (Asia Minor, circa 408 B.C.-circa 347 B.C.)
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)
Gerhard Gentzen (Germany, 1909-1945)
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 (Ireland, 1805-1865)
Godfrey Harold Hardy (Britain, 1877-1947
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, 1938 -)
Kunihiko Kodaira (Japan, 1915 - 1997)
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russia, 1903-1987)
Maxim Kontsevich (Russia, 1964 -)
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russia, 1850-1891)
Leopold Kronecker (Germany, 1823-1891)
Ernst Eduard Kummer (Germany, 1810-1893
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 Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russia, 1792-1856)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Russia, 1857-1918)


M

Saunders MacLane (USA, 1909 -)
Colin Maclaurin (Scotland, 1698-1746)
Grigory Margulis (USSR, USA, 1946 -)
Andrei Andreevich Markov (Russia, 1856-1922)
Jerrold E. Marsden (USA, ???? -)
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)
Kristen Nygaard (Norway, 1926-2002)

P

Blaise Pascal (France, 1623-1662)
Giuseppe Peano (Italy, 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 A. 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, ???? -)
Frans van Schooten (Netherlands, 1615-1660)
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)
Gábor Szegö (Hungary, 1895-1985)

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 (Belgium, 1930 - )
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)
Hermann Weyl (Germany, USA, 1885-1955
Norbert Wiener (USA, 1894 - 1964)
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

Astronomers, Physicists, Philosophers, Scientists, Slovene mathematicians.

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