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)
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