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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