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

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 (Perga, 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 - )
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)
Paul Joseph Cohen (USA, 1934 - )
Zuanne de Tonini da Coi (Clolla) (16th century)
Marquis de Condorcet (France, 1743 - 1794)
Alain Connes (France, 1947 - )
John Conway (Britain, 1937 - )
John Craig (Scotland, 1663 - 1731)
Gabriel Cramer (Switzerland, 1704 - 1752)
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 (Germany, 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 - )
Guldin (Germany, 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)
Werner Karl Heisenberg (Germany, 1901 - 1976)
Charles Hermite (France, 1822 - 1901)
David Hilbert (Germany, 1862 - 1943)
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)

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)
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)
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)
Sophus Lie (Norway, 1842 - 1899)
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (Germany, 1852 - 1939)
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

Blaise Pascal (France, 1623 - 1662)
Giuseppe Peano (Italy, 1858 - 1932)
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)
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)
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)
Andre 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)
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