List of mathematicians

The famous mathematicians are listed below in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surname).

A

• Niels Henrik Abel (Norway, 1802 - 1829)
• Ralph H. Abraham (USA, University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Wilhelm Ackermann (Germany, 1896 - 1962)
• Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Italy, 1718 - 1799)
• Lars Valerian Ahlfors, (Finland, 1907 - 1996)
• Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (France, 1717 - 1783)
• Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (Persia, 780 - 850)
• Alexander Anderson (Scotland, 1582 - 1620)
• André-Marie Ampere, (France, 1775 - 1836)
• Apollonius of Perga (Asia Minor, 265 B.C. - 170 B.C.)
• Archimedes (Syracuse, 287 B.C. - 212 B.C.)
• Aristotle (Greece, 384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)
• Vladimir Arnol'd (Russia, 1937 - )
• Emil Artin (Austria, 1898 - 1962)
• 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)
• Thomas Bayes (England, 1702 - 1761)
• Eric Temple Bell (Scotland, USA, 1883 - 1960)
• Jakob Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1654 - 1705)
• Johann Bernoulli[?] (Switzerland, 1667 - 1748)
• Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand[?] (France, 1822 - 1900)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, (Germany, 1784 - 1846)
• Biruni (Persian Empire, 973 - 1048)
• Farkos Wolfgang Bolyai[?] (Romania, 1775 - 1856)
• János Bolyai (Romania, 1802 - 1860)
• Bernhard Bolzano[?] (Bohemia, 1781 - 1848)
• Enrico Bombieri (Italy, 1940 - )
• George Boole (Britain, 1815 - 1864)
• Richard Ewen Borcherds[?] (Britain, 1959 - )
• Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel[?] (France, 1871 - 1956)
• Karol Borsuk[?] (Poland, 1905 - 1982)
• Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
• Nicolas Bourbaki (France, dates uncertain)
• Jean Bourgain[?] (Belgium, 1954 - )
• Ruđer Josip Bošković (Republic of Dubrovnik, 1711 - 1787)
• Carl Benjamin Boyer (American, 1906 - 1976)
• Henry Briggs (Britain, 1561 - 1630)
• Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (Netherlands, 1881 - 1966)
• Viggo Brun (Norway, 1885 - 1978)
• Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev[?] (Russia, 1859-1962)

C

• Georg Ferdinand Cantor (Germany, 1845 - 1918)
• Gerolamo Cardano (Italy, 1501 - 1576)
• Robert Daniel Carmichael[?] (USA, 1879 - 1967)
• 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, March 12, 1859 - September 12, 1906)
• Ludolph van Ceulen[?] (Netherlands, 1540 - 1610)
• Giovanni Ceva (Italy, 1648 - 1734)
• Gulbank Don Chakerian[?] (USA)
• Gregory J. Chaitin (USA, ???? - )
• Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, (Russia, (May 16, 1821 - December 8, 1894)
• Ch'in Chiu-Shao[?] (China, 1200s)
• Sarvadaman Chowla[?] (India, 1907 - 1995)
• Alonzo Church (USA, 1903 - 1995)
• John Coates (Australia, born 1945)
• Paul Joseph Cohen (USA, 1934 - )
• Roger Cotes (England, 1682-1716)
• Zuanne de Tonini da Coi (Clolla)[?] (16th century)
• Marquis de Condorcet (France, 1743 - 1794)
• Alain Connes (France, 1947 - )
• John Conway (Britain, 1937 - )
• H.S.M. Coxeter, (Britain and then Canada, 1907 - 2003)
• John Craig (Scotland, 1663 - 1731)
• Gabriel Cramer[?] (Switzerland, 1704 - 1752)
• Harald Cramér (Sweden, 1893 - 1985)
• Jing-Run Chen[?] (Mainland China, May 22, 1933 - 1966)
• Shiing-Shen Chern[?] (October 26, 1911 - )

D

• Francois d'Aguillon (Belgium, 1566 - 1617)
• Germinal Pierre Dandelin[?] (France, Belgium, 1794 - 1847)
• David van Dantzig[?] (Netherlands, 1900 - 1959)
• Ludwig W. Danzer[?] (Germany, University of Dortmund[?])
• George Dantzig (USA, 1914 - )
• Jean Gaston Darboux[?] (France, August 14, 1842 - February 23, 1917)
• Indraneel Das[?]
• Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind, (Germany, 1831 - 1916)
• Bruno de Finetti (Italy, 1906 - 1985)
• Pierre Deligne[?] (Belgium, USA, 1944 - )
• Augustus de Morgan (India, Britain 1806 - 1871)
• René Descartes, (France, 1596 - 1650)
• Edsger Dijkstra (1930 - 2002)
• 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[?] (France, 1935 - )
• Jesse Douglas[?] (USA, 1897 - 1965)
• Vladimir Drinfeld[?] (Ukraine, 1954 - )
• Eugene Borisovich Dynkin[?] (USSR, 1924 - )
• Underwood Dudley
• Freeman John Dyson, (England, December 15, 1923 - )

E

• Albert Einstein (Germany, 1879 - 1955)
• William Emerson (England/United Kingdom, 1701 - 1782)
• 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)
• Scipione dal Ferro[?] (Italy, February 6, 1465 - November 5, 1526)
• Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (Italy, 1170 - 1250)
• Thomas Fincke (Denmark, 1561 - 1656)
• 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, (Austria, USA, 1906 - 1978)
• Christian Goldbach (Germany, 1690 - 1764)
• William Sealey Gosset (Britain, 1876 - 1937)
• William Timothy Gowers[?] (Britain, 1963 - )
• Hermann Günther Grassmann (Prussia, 1809 - 1877)
• Alexander Grothendieck (France, 1928 - )
• Paul Guldin (Switzerland, 1577 - 1643)

H

• Jacques Hadamard[?] (France, 1865 - 1963)
• Paul Richard Halmos[?] (Hungary, USA, 1916 - )
• William Rowan Hamilton (Ireland, 1805 - 1865)
• Godfrey Harold Hardy (Britain, 1877 - 1947
• Felix Hausdorff (Germany, 1869 - 1942)
• Thomas Heath (England 1861 - 1940)
• Werner Karl Heisenberg, (Germany, 1901 - 1976)
• Charles Hermite[?] (France, 1822 - 1901)
• David Hilbert (Germany, 1862 - 1943)
• Hipparchus
• Heisuke Hironaka (Japan, 1931 - )
• Vaclav Hlavaty[?] (Czech Republic, 1894 - 1969)
• Otto Hölder (Germany, 1859 - 1937)
• Lars Hörmander[?] (Sweden, 1931 - )
• Guillaume Francois Antoine l'Hospital[?] (France, 1661 - 1704)
• Liu Hui (China, 200s)
• Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629 - 1695)
• Hypatia (Egypt, d. 415)

J

• Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (Germany, 1804 - 1851)
• Harold Jeffreys[?] (Britain)
• Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones[?] (New Zealand, USA, 1952 - )
• Camille Jordan (France, 1838 - 1922)

K

• Mark Kac[?] (Poland, USA, 1914 - 1984)
• Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich[?] (USSR, 1912 - 1986)
• Ghiyath al-Kashi[?] (Timurid Iran, circa 1370 - 1429)
• Abraham Gotthelf Kästner[?] (Germany, 1719 - 1800)
• Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571 - 1630)
• Stephen Cole Kleene (USA, 1909 - 1994)
• Felix Klein (Germany, 1849 - 1925)
• Donald Knuth (USA, 1938 - )
• Pelagaeia Polubarinova Kochina[?] (Russia, 1899 - 1999)
• Kunihiko Kodaira[?] (Japan, 1915 - 1997)
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russia, 1903 - 1987)
• Helge von Koch (Sweden, 1870 - 1924)
• 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

• Laurent Lafforgue (France, 1966 - )
• Joseph-Louis de Lagrange (France, 1736 - 1813)
• Ivo Lah (Slovenia, 1896 - 1979)
• 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)
• Derrick Henry Lehmer[?] (USA, 1905 - 1991)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Germany, 1646 - 1716)
• Solomon Lefschetz[?] (France, USA, 1884 - 1972)
• Jean Leray
• Sophus Lie (Norway, 1842 - 1899)
• Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann[?] (Germany, 1852 - 1939)
• Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik[?] (Russia, 1915 - 1972)
• Jacques-Louis Lions[?] (France, 1956 - )
• Joseph Liouville[?] (France, 1809 - 1882)
• Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russia, 1792 - 1856)
• François-Édouard-Anatole Lucas[?] (France, 1842 - 1891)
• 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, ???? - )
• Lorenzo Mascheroni (Italy, 1750 - 1800)
• Curtis T. McMullen[?] (USA, 1958 - )
• Karl Menger (USA, 1902 - 1985)
• Marin Mersenne (France, 1588 - 1648)
• Franz Mertens (Germany, 1840 - 1927)
• Freda Mihailescu[?]
• John Milnor (USA 1931 - )
• Hermann Minkowski (Germany, 1864 - 1909)
• August Ferdinand Möbius (Germany, 1790 - 1868)
• Georg Mohr (Denmark, 1640 - 1697)
• 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)

O

• Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (Russia, 1801 - 1862)

P

• Pappus of Alexandria[?] (Greece, ca. 260 B.C. - ?)
• Blaise Pascal (France, 1623 - 1662)
• Giuseppe Peano (Italy, 1858 - 1932)
• Grisha Perelman[?] (Russia, Steklov Mathematical Institute[?], Saint Petersburg)
• Roger Penrose (England, 1931 - )
• Julius Petersen (Denmark, 1839 - 1910)
• Charles Emile Picard (France, 1856 - 1941)
• Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai[?] (India, 1901 - 1950)
• Josip Plemelj (Slovenia, 1873 - 1967)
• Jules-Henri Poincaré, (France, 1854 - 1912)
• Siméon-Denis Poisson (France, 1781 - 1840)
• George Polya (Hungary, USA, 1887 - 1985)
• Victor Alexandre Puiseux[?] (France, 1820 - 1883)
• Pythagoras of Samos (Greece 582 B.C.[?] - 496 B.C.))

Q

• Daniel Quillen[?] (USA, 1940 - )

R

• Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan (India, 1887 - 1920)
• Frank Plumpton Ramsey (Britain, 1903 - 1930)
• Robert Recorde[?] (Wales, 1510 - 1558)
• Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller, Germany, 1436 - 1476)
• Ken A. Ribet[?] (USA, ???? - )
• Jules Richard (France, 1862 - 1956)
• Bernhard Riemann (Germany, 1826 - 1866)
• Adam Riese[?] (Germany, 1492 - 1559)
• Herbert Robbins[?] (USA, Rutgers University)
• Michel Rolle (France, 1652 - 1719)
• Gian-Carlo Rota (Italy, USA, 1932 - 1999)
• 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)
• Laurent Schwartz[?] (France, 1915 - 2002)
• Seki Kowa[?] (Japan, 1642 - 1708)
• Atle Selberg (Norway, USA, 1917 - )
• Jean-Pierre Serre (France, 1926 - )
• Goro Shimura (Japan, 1930 - )
• Peter Shor
• Waclaw Sierpinski (Poland, 1882 - 1969)
• Neil Sloane[?] (USA, ???? - )
• Stephen Smale (USA, 1930 - )
• Willebrord van Roijen Snell (Netherlands, 1580 - 1626)
• Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (Russia, 1842 - 1927)
• Sporus of Nicaea (Asia Minor, circa 240 B.C. - circa 300 B.C.)
• Jožef Stefan (Austria-Hungary, Slovenia 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)
• Dirk Jan Struik[?] (Netherlands, 1894-2000)
• Ludwig Sylow[?] (Norway, 1832 - 1918)
• James Joseph Sylvester (England, 1814 - 1897)
• Gábor Szegö (Hungary, 1895 - 1985)

T

• Teiji Takagi (Japan, April 21, 1875 - February 28, 1960)
• Tsuneo Tamagawa[?] (Japanese American, 1925 - )
• Yutaka Taniyama (Japan, 1927 - 1958)
• Michael Tarsi[?] (Israel, Tel Aviv University)
• Alfred Tarski (Poland, 1902 - 1983)
• Nicolo Tartaglia or Nicolo Fontana[?] (1499(1500) - December 15, 1557)
• Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (Republic of Venice, 1499 - 1557)
• John Tate (USA, (1925-)
• Brook Taylor (Britain, 1685 - 1731)
• Oswald Teichmuller (Germany, 1913 - 1943)
• Thales of Miletus, (circa B.C.624[?] - B.C.547[?])
• René Thom (France, 1923 - )
• John Griggs Thompson[?] (USA, 1932 - )
• William Thurston (1946 - )
• Jacques Tits (Belgium, 1930 - )
• Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (Spain, 1852 - 1936)
• Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus (Germany, April 10, 1651 - October 11, 1708)
• Chung-Tze Tsen[?] (China, April 2, 1898 - November,1940)
• Albert W. Tucker[?]
• Jerrold Tunnell[?]
• Alan Turing (Britain, 1912 - 1954)
• Helge Tverberg[?]
• 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 (Slovenia, 1754 - 1802)
• Ivan Vidav (Slovenia, 1918 - )
• François Viete[?] (France, 1540 - 1603)
• Leopold Vietoris (Austria, 1891 - 2002)

W

• Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (Netherlands, 1903 - 1996)
• Edward Waring (England, 1736 - 1798)
• Karl Weierstrass (Germany, 1815 - 1897)
• André Weil (France, 1906 - 1998)
• Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (Germany, USA, 1885 - 1955)
• Arthur Wieferich[?] (Germany, 1910s)
• Norbert Wiener (USA, 1894 - 1964)
• Andrew Wiles (Britain, 1953 - )
• Edward Witten (USA, 1951 - )
• Vladimir Voevodsky (Russia, 1966 - )
• Joseph Wolstenholme (England, 1829 - 1891)
• Christopher Wren (England, 1632 - 1723)

Y

• Shing-Tung Yau[?] (China, USA, 1949 - )
• Jean-Christophe Yoccoz[?] (France, 1957 - )

Z

• Hans Julius Zassenhaus[?] (Germany, May 28, 1912 - November 21, 1991)
• Doron Zeilberger[?] (Israel, USA, 1950 - )
• Efim Isakovich Zelmanov[?] (USSR, USA, 1955 - )
• Ernst Zermelo (Germany, 1871 - 1953)
• Gunter M. Ziegler[?] (Germany 1963 - )
• Zhang Heng (China, 78 - 139)
• Zhu Shijie (China, 1270 - 1330)
• Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev[?] (Russia, 1847 - 1879)
• Max A. Zorn (Germany, July 6, 1906 - March 9, 1993)
• Herbert Samuel Zuckerman[?] (1912 - 1970)

External Links

• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/ -- Very complete list of detailed biographies.