Lists of mathematicians

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

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A

• Abu'l-Wafa (Iran, 940 - 998)
• Niels Henrik Abel (Norway, 1802 - 1829)
• Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi
• Ralph H. Abraham (USA, University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Wilhelm Ackermann (Germany, 1896 - 1962)
• John Couch Adams (United Kingdom, 1819 - 1892)
• Robert Adrain (Ireland)
• Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Italy, 1718 - 1799)
• Lars Valerian Ahlfors, (Finland, 1907 - 1996)
• Ahmes, (Egypt, roughly around 17th century BC)
• Yousef Alavi
• Giacomo Albanese (Italy, Brazil)
• Jean le Rond d'Alembert (France, 1717 - 1783)
• Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (Russia, 1912 - 1999)
• Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov (USSR, 1896 - 1982)
• Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (Persia, 780 - 850)
• Alexander Anderson (Scotland, 1582 - 1620)
• André-Marie Ampere, (France, 1775 - 1836)
• Petrus Apianus (Germany, 1495 - 1552)
• Apollonius of Perga (Asia Minor, 265 B.C. - 170 B.C.)
• Antoine Arbogast (France, 1759 - 1803)
• Archimedes (Syracuse, 287 B.C. - 212 B.C.)
• Cahit Arf (Turkey, 1910 - 1997)
• Jean-Robert Argand (France, 1768 - 1822)
• Yoriyuki Arima (Japan, 1714-1783)
• Aristotle (Greece, 384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)
• Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd (1937 - )
• Emil Artin (Austria, 1898 - 1962)
• Arzachel (Al-Zarqali) (Muslim Spain, 1028-1087)
• Michael Francis Atiyah (Britain, 1929 - )
• George Atwood (Britain, 1746 - 1807)

B

Ba

• Charles Babbage (United Kingdom, 1791 - 1871)
• Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (France, 1581 - 1638)
• Paul Bachmann (Germany, 1837 - 1920)
• John Baez
• Albert Victor Bäcklund (Germany, 1845-1912)
• Alan Baker (Britain, 1939 - )
• H. F. Baker
• Stefan Banach (Poland, 1892 - 1945)
• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, (Israel, 1915-1975)
• Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russia, USA, 1927 - )
• Charlotte Barnum (1860-1934)
• Isaac Barrow (England, 1630 - 1677)
• Jon Barwise (US, 1942 - 2000)
• David Bates
• Thomas Bayes (England, 1702 - 1761)

Be-Bl

• Eric Temple Bell (Scotland, USA, 1883 - 1960)
• Eugenio Beltrami (Italy, 1835-1900)
• Elwyn Berlekamp (USA)
• Jakob Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1654 - 1705)
• Johann Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1667 - 1748)
• Daniel Bernoulli (Switzerland, 1700 - 1782)
• Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand (France, 1822 - 1900)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784 - 1846)
• Arne Beurling (Sweden, 1905-1986)
• Étienne Bézout (France, 1730–1783)
• Bhaskara (India, 1114 - 1185)
• Luigi Bianchi (Italy,1856-1928)
• Ludwig Bieberbach (Germany, 1886 - 1982)
• Biruni (Persian Empire, 973 - 1048)
• Gertrude Blanch (1898-1996)
• Danilo Blanusa, (Croatia, 1903 - 1987)
• Wilhelm Blaschke
• Lenore Blum (1942- )

Bo-Br

• Harald Bohr (Denmark, 1887 - 1951)
• Béla Bollobás
• Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai (Hungary, 1775 - 1856)
• János Bolyai (Hungary, 1802 - 1860)
• Bernard Bolzano (Bohemia, 1781 - 1848)
• Enrico Bombieri (Italy, 1940 - )
• Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (Italy 1892 - 1960)
• 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 (Poland/Russia/Germany 1868 - 1931)
• Nicolas Bourbaki (Pseudonym used by a cabal of French mathematicians)
• Jean Bourgain (Belgium, 1954 - )
• Ruđer Josip Bošković (Republic of Dubrovnik, 1711 - 1787)
• Carl Benjamin Boyer (American, 1906 - 1976)
• Thomas Bradwardine (English, c. 1290 - 1349)
• Richard Brauer (Germany, 1901 - 1977)
• Henry Briggs (Britain, 1561 - 1630)
• Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (Netherlands, 1881 - 1966)
• Viggo Brun (Norway, 1885 - 1978)

Bu

• Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev (Russia, 1859-1962)
• William Burnside (UK, 1852-1927)

C

Ca-Ce

• Eugenio Calabi, (United States)
• Georg Ferdinand Cantor (Germany, 1845 - 1918)
• Constantin Carathéodory (Germany, 1873 - 1950)
• Gerolamo Cardano (Italy, 1501 - 1576)
• Robert Daniel Carmichael (USA, 1879 - 1967)
• Élie Cartan (France, April 9, 1869 - May 6, 1951)
• 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 Cesàro (Italy, March 12, 1859 - September 12, 1906)
• Ludolph van Ceulen (Germany/Netherlands, 1540 - 1610)
• Giovanni Ceva (Italy, 1648 - 1734)

Ch-Co

• Gulbank Don Chakerian (USA)
• Gregory J. Chaitin (USA, ca. 1950)
• Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) (France)
• Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, (Russia, May 16,1821 - December 8,1894)
• Chen Jingrun (Mainland China, May 22, 1933 - March 19, 1996)
• Shiing-shen Chern (October 26,1911 -December 3,2004)
• Alexey Chervonenkis (Russia)
• Ch'in Chiu-Shao (China, 1200s)
• Sarvadaman Chowla (India, 1907 - 1995)
• Elwin Bruno Christoffel Germany (1829-1900)
• Fan Chung (Taiwan, USA, 1949 - )
• Alonzo Church (USA, 1903 - 1995)
• Alexis Claude Clairaut (France)
• John Coates (Australia, born 1945)
• Paul Joseph Cohen (USA, 1934 - )
• Don Coppersmith
• Roger Cotes (England, 1682-1716)
• Zuanne de Tonini da Coi (Clolla) (16th century)
• Marquis de Condorcet (France, 1743 - 1794)
• Alain Connes (France, 1947 - )
• John H. Conway (Britain, 1937 - )
• H.S.M. Coxeter, (Britain and then Canada, 1907 - 2003)

Cr

• John Craig (Scotland, 1663 - 1731)
• Gabriel Cramer (Switzerland, 1704 - 1752)
• Harald Cramér (Sweden, 1893 - 1985)

D

Da-De

• Francois d'Aguillon (Belgium, 1566 - 1617)
• Dan Sun (China)
• 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
• Ingrid Daubechies (1954 - )
• Martin Davis (USA, 1928 -)
• Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind, (Germany, 1831 - 1916)
• Bruno de Finetti (Italy, 1906 - 1985)
• Max Dehn (Germany, 1878 - 1952}
• Boris Delaunay, (Russia, 1890 - 1980)
• Charles-Eugène Delaunay, (France, 1816 - 1872)
• Pierre Deligne (Belgium, USA, 1944 - )
• Augustus de Morgan (India, Britain 1806 - 1871)
• René Descartes, (France, 1596 - 1650)
• Keith Devlin
• A. K. Dewdney, (Canada)

Di-Dy

• Samuel Dickstein, (Poland, 1851 - 1939)
• Edsger Dijkstra (Netherlands, 1930 - 2002)
• Diophantus of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa 298 B.C. - 214 B.C.)
• Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (Germany, 1805 - 1859)
• Nathan Divinsky
• Simon Donaldson (Britain, 1957 - )
• Adrien Douady (France, 1935 - )
• Jesse Douglas (USA, 1897 - 1965)
• Vladimir Drinfeld (Ukraine, 1954 - )
• Underwood Dudley
• Martin Dunwoody
• Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (Germany)
• Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (USSR, 1924 - )
• Freeman John Dyson, (England, December 15,1923 - )

E

• Charles Ehresmann (France, 1905 - 1979)
• Samuel Eilenberg (Poland, 1913 - 1998)
• Albert Einstein (World, 1879 - 1955)
• Ferdinand Eisenstein (Germany, 1823 - 1852)
• William Emerson (England/United Kingdom, 1701 - 1782)
• Eratosthenes (Ptolemaic Egypt, 276 B.C. - 194 B.C.)
• Paul Erdös (Hungary, 1913 - 1996)
• Ernest Esclangon, (France 1876 - 1954)
• 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)
• Machgielis Euwe (Holland, 1901 - 1981)

F

• Gerd Faltings (Germany, 1954 - )
• Pierre Fatou (France, 1878 - 1929)
• Charles Fefferman (USA, 1949 - )
• Lipót Fejér (Hungary)
• William Feller (Croatia 1906 - 1970)
• Pierre de Fermat (France, 1601 - 1665)
• Lodovico Ferrari (Italy, 1522 - 1565)
• Scipione del Ferro (Italy, February 6,1465 - November 5,1526)
• Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (Italy, 1170 - 1250)
• Thomas Fincke (Denmark, 1561 - 1656)
• Ronald Fisher (United Kingdom - 1962)
• Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (1903-1974)
• Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (Russia)
• Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, (France, 1768 - 1830)
• Adolf Fraenkel (Germany, 1891 - 1965)
• Maurice Réné Fréchet (France)
• Erik Ivar Fredholm (Norway)
• Michael Freedman (USA, 1951 - )
• Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925)
• Hans Freudenthal (Germany, the Netherlands, 1905 - 1990)
• Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (Germany, 1849 - 1917)

G

• Evariste Galois (France, 1811 - 1832)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777 - 1855)
• Hilda Geiringer von Mises (1893-1973)
• Gerhard Gentzen (Germany, 1909 - 1945)
• Joseph Diaz Gergonne (France, 1771-1859)
• Sophie Germain (France, 1776 - 1831)
• Jean-Yves Girard (France)
• Jean Giraud (France)
• James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
• Alain Glavieux, (France - d 2004)
• Kurt Gödel, (Austria, USA, 1906 - 1978)
• Christian Goldbach (Germany, 1690 - 1764)
• Solomon Golomb (USA, 1930 - )
• I. J. Good (UK)
• William Sealey Gosset (Britain, 1876 - 1937)
• William Timothy Gowers (Britain, 1963 - )
• Ronald Graham (USA)
• George Green (Britain, 1793 - 1841)
• Mikhail Gromov
• Hermann Günther Grassmann (Prussia, 1809 - 1877)
• Alexander Grothendieck (France, 1928 - )
• Paul Guldin (Switzerland, 1577 - 1643)
• András Gyárfás (Hungary)

H

Ha

• Alfréd Haar (Hungary, 1885-1933)
• Jacques Hadamard (France, 1865 - 1963)
• Hugo Hadwiger (Switzerland)
• Hans Hahn (Austria)
• András Hajnal(Hungary)
• Paul Richard Halmos (Hungary, USA, 1916 - )
• William Rowan Hamilton (Ireland, 1805 - 1865)
• John Hammersley
• Richard Hamming (USA, 1915-1998)
• Peter Andreas Hansen (Denmark, 1795 - 1874)
• Godfrey Harold Hardy (Britain, 1877 - 1947)
• Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (1851-1888)
• Mohsen Hashtroodi (Iran)
• Helmut Hasse
• Allen Hatcher (United States)
• Felix Hausdorff (Germany, 1869 - 1942)

He-Hy

• Oliver Heaviside
• Thomas Heath (England 1861 - 1940)
• Poul Heegaard
• Eduard Heine (Germany, 1821-1881)
• Leon Henkin
• Jacques Herbrand
• Charles Hermite (France, 1822 - 1901)
• Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
• Otto Hesse
• David Hilbert (Germany, 1862 - 1943)
• George William Hill (USA, 1838 - 1914)
• Hipparchus
• Heisuke Hironaka (広中平祐, Japan, 1931 - )
• Vaclav Hlavaty (Czech Republic, 1894 - 1969)
• W. V. D. Hodge (UK)
• Otto Hölder (Germany, 1859 - 1937)
• Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf (Austria, 1902 -1983)
• Heinz Hopf (Germany, now Poland, 1894 - 1971)
• Lars Hörmander (Sweden, 1931 - )
• Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (France, 1661 - 1704)
• Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629 - 1695)
• Witold Hurewicz(Poland 1904-1956)
• Adolf Hurwitz
• Hypatia (Egypt, d. 415)

I

• James Ivory (Scotland 1765 - 1842))
• Kiyosi Itô (Japan 1915 - )

J

• Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (Germany, 1804 - 1851)
• Nathan Jacobson (Poland, USA, 1910 - 1999)
• Zygmunt Janiszewski (Poland, 1888 - 1920)
• Harold Jeffreys (Britain)
• Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones (New Zealand, USA, 1952 - )
• Camille Jordan (France, 1838 - 1922)
• Gaston Maurice Julia (Algeria, France, 1893 - 1978)

K

• Mark Kac (Poland, USA, 1914 - 1984)
• Erich Kähler (Germany 1905-2000)
• Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (USSR, 1912 - 1986)
• Ghiyath al-Kashi (Timurid Iran, circa 1370 - 1429)
• Edward Kasner (USA, )
• Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (Germany, 1719 - 1800)
• Omar Khayyám (Iran, 1028 - 1123)
• Alfred Bray Kempe (England, 1849 - 1922)
• Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571 - 1630)
• Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (USSR, 1894 - 1959)
• Stephen Cole Kleene (USA, 1909 - 1994)
• Felix Klein (Germany, 1849 - 1925)
• Donald Knuth (USA, 1938 - )
• Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (Russia, 1899 - 1999)
• Kunihiko Kodaira (Japan, 1915 - 1997)
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russia, 1903 - 1987)
• Helge von Koch (Sweden, 1870 - 1924)
• Denes König (Hungary, 1884 - 1944)
• Maxim Kontsevich (Russia, 1964 - )
• Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russia, 1850 - 1891)
• Christian Kramp, France, (1760 - 1826)
• Cecilia Krieger (1894-1974)
• Leopold Kronecker (Silesia/Germany, 1823 - 1891)
• Wolfgang Krull Germany, (1899 - 1971)
• Ernst Eduard Kummer (Germany, 1810 - 1893
• Kazimierz Kuratowski (Poland, 1896 - 1980)
• Martin Wilhelm Kutta (Silesia/Germany, 1867 - 1944)

L

La

• Miklós Laczkovich (Hungary)
• Laurent Lafforgue (France, 1966 - )
• Joseph-Louis de Lagrange (France, 1736 - 1813)
• Edmond Laguerre (France, 1834 - 1886)
• Ivo Lah (Slovenia, 1896 - 1979)
• Antoine de Laloubère (France, 1600 - 1664)
• Johann Heinrich Lambert (Germany, 1728 - 1777)
• Edmund Landau (Germany, 1877 - 1938)
• Serge Lang
• Robert Langlands (Canada, USA, 1936 - )
• Pierre-Simon Laplace (France, 1749 - 1827)
• Estienne de La Roche (France, 1470-1530)
• Emanuel Lasker (Germany, 1868 - 1941)
• Mikhail Lavrentyev (Russia, 1900-1980)
• Ruth Lawrence
• F. W. Lawvere
• Gaspar Lax (Spain, 1487-1560)
• Peter David Lax (USA, 1926)

Le-Ll

• 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)
• John Lennard-Jones (UK, 1894-1954)
• Jean Leray
• Stanislaw Lesniewski (Poland, 1886 - 1939)
• David Levermore (USA, )
• Tullio Levi-Civita (Italy, 1873-1941)
• Norman Levinson (USA, 1912-1975)
• Paul Pierre Lévy (France, 1886-1971)
• Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (France, 1661 - 1704)
• Sophus Lie (Norway, 1842 - 1899)
• Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (Finland, 1870 - 1946)
• Ferdinand von Lindemann (Germany, 1852 - 1939)
• Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (Russia, 1915 - 1972)
• Jacques-Louis Lions (France, 1928 - 2001)
• Joseph Liouville (France, 1809 - 1882)
• Rudolf Lipschitz (Germany, 1832-1903)
• Jules Antoine Lissajous (France, 1822 - 1880)
• John Edensor Littlewood
• Liu Hui (劉徽, China, 200s)
• Ramon Llull (Spain, 1235-1316)

Lo-Ly

• Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russia, 1792 - 1856)
• Alfred Loewy (Germany, 1873-1935)
• Alfred J. Lotka
• László Lovász (Hungary, 1947 - )
• Leopold Lowenheim
• François-Édouard-Anatole Lucas (France, 1842 - 1891)
• Lukasiewicz, Jan (Poland, 1878-1956)
• Lazar Lyusternik
• Nikolai Luzin (Russia, 1883-1950)
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, (Russia, 1857 - 1918)
• Aleksei Lyapunov, (Russia)
• Ernest Lytle

M

Ma-Me

• Sheila Scott Macintyre (Scotland, 1910-1960)
• George Mackey
• Saunders Mac Lane (USA, 1909 - )
• Colin Maclaurin (Scotland, 1698 - 1746)
• Jessie MacWilliams (England, USA, 1917 - 1990)
• Stéphane Mallat (France, USA)
• Etienne-Louis Malus (France, 1775 - 1812)
• Benoît Mandelbrot (Poland, France, USA, 1924 - )
• Józef Marcinkiewicz (Poland)
• Edward Marczewski (Poland, 1907 - 1976)
• Grigory Margulis (USSR, USA, 1946 - )
• Andrei Andreevich Markov, (Russia, 1856 - 1922)
• Jerrold E. Marsden (USA, ???? - )
• Anders Martin-Löf (Sweden)
• Lorenzo Mascheroni (Italy, 1750 - 1800)
• Stefan Mazurkiewicz (Poland)
• Curtis T. McMullen (USA, 1958 - )
• Menelaus of Alexandria (Egypt ca 70- ca 140)
• Karl Menger (Austria/USA, 1902 - 1985)
• James Mercer (England, 1883 - 1932)
• Marin Mersenne (France, 1588 - 1648)
• Franz Mertens (Germany, 1840 - 1927)
• Nicholas Metropolis (USA, 1915 - 1999)

Mi-Mu

• 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)
• Theodor Molien (Russia, USSR, Latvia 1861 - 1941)
• Gaspard Monge (France, 1746 - 1818)
• Shigefumi Mori (Japan, 1951 - )
• Marston Morse (USA, 1892 - 1977)
• Bernhard Morin
• Jean Moufot (France, 1784 - 1842)
• Thomas Muir (UK, 1844 - 1934)
• David Mumford (Britain, USA, 1937 - )

N

• John Napier (Scotland, 1550 - 1617)
• John Forbes Nash (USA, 1928 - )
• Edward Nelson
• Otto Neugebauer
• John von Neumann (Hungary, USA, 1903 - 1957)
• Rolf Nevanlinna (Finland, 1895 - 1980)
• Simon Newcomb (USA, 1835 - 1909)
• James R. Newman
• Isaac Newton (Britain, 1643 - 1727)
• Jakob Nielsen (Denmark, 1890 – 1959)
• Ivan Niven (Canada, USA, 1915-1999)
• Nilakantha Somayaji (India, 1444 - 1544)
• Emmy Noether (Germany, 1882 - 1935)
• Landon Curt Noll (USA)
• Sergei Petrovich Novikov (Russia, 1938 - )
• Petr Sergeevich Novikov (Russia, 1901 - 1935)
• Kristen Nygaard (Norway, 1926 - 2002)

O

• Nicole Oresme (France, circa. 1323 - 1382)
• Wladyslaw Orlicz (Poland 1903 - 1990)
• Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (Russia, 1801 - 1862)
• Alexander Markovich Ostrowski (Russia, 1893 - 1986)
• Jacques Ozanam (France, 1640 - 1717)

P

• Henri Pade (France, 1863 - 1953)
• Paul Painlevé (France, 1863 - 1933)
• Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (Russia, 1899 - 1999)
• Pappus of Alexandria (Greece, ca. 260 B.C. - ?)
• Blaise Pascal (France, 1623 - 1662)
• Giuseppe Peano (Italy, 1858 - 1932)
• Benjamin Peirce (USA, 1809-1880)
• John Pell (England, 1610 - 1685)
• Grisha Perelman (Russia, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Saint Petersburg)
• Roger Penrose (England, 1931 - )
• Julius Petersen (Denmark, 1839 - 1910)
• Charles Emile Picard (France, 1856 - 1941)
• Georg Pick (Austria 1859 - 1942)
• Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (India, 1901 - 1950)
• Michel Plancherel (Switzerland, 1885 - 1967)
• Josip Plemelj (Slovenia, 1873 - 1967)
• Simon Plouffe (Canada, 1956 - )
• Jules-Henri Poincaré, (France, 1854 - 1912)
• Louis Poinsot, (France, 1777 - 1859)
• Alphonse de Polignac (France, 1817-1890)
• Siméon-Denis Poisson (France, 1781 - 1840)
• George Polya (Hungary, USA, 1887 - 1985)
• Jean-Victor Poncelet (France, 1788 - 1867)
• Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (USSR, 1908-1988)
• Emil Post (Poland, USA 1897 - 1954)
• Victor Alexandre Puiseux (France, 1820 - 1883)
• Georg Purbach (Germany, 1423-1461)
• Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro (USSR, Israel)
• Pythagoras of Samos (Greece 582 B.C. - 496 B.C.))

Q

• Daniel Quillen (USA, 1940 - )
• Qin Jiushao (China, 1202-1261)

R

• Richard Rado (Britain, 1906 - 1989)
• Johann Radon (Czech Republic, Austria 1887 - 1956)
• Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan (India, 1887 - 1920)
• Frank Plumpton Ramsey (Britain, 1903 - 1930)
• Robert Recorde (Wales, 1510 - 1558)
• Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller, Germany, 1436 - 1476)
• Kurt Reidemeister (Germany, 1893 - 1971)
• Marian Rejewski (Poland, 1905 - 1980)
• Alfréd Rényi (Hungary)
• Georges de Rham (Switzerland, 1903 - 1990)
• Ken A. Ribet (USA, ???? - )
• Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Italy, 1853-1925)
• Jules Richard (France, 1862 - 1956)
• Lewis Fry Richardson (Britain, 1881 - 1953)
• Bernhard Riemann (Germany, 1826 - 1866)
• Adam Riese (Germany, 1492 - 1559)
• Riesz Frigyes (Hungary, 1880-1956)
• Herbert Robbins (USA, Rutgers University)
• Abraham Robinson (Israel, UK, Canada, USA, 1918-1974)
• Julia Robinson (USA, 1919 - 1985)
• Gustav Roch (Germany, 1839-1866)
• Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (USSR, 1919-1984)
• Michel Rolle (France, 1652 - 1719)
• Adriaan van Roomen (Belgium, 1561 - 1615)
• Gian-Carlo Rota (Italy, USA, 1932 - 1999)
• Klaus Roth (Germany, Britain, 1925 - )
• W. W. Rouse Ball (1850 - 1925)
• Edward John Routh (Canada, Britain, 1831 - 1907)
• Carle David Tolme Runge (Germany, 1856 - 1927)
• Bertrand Russell (Britain, 1872 - 1970)

S

Sa-Sh

• Michael Saks (USA, ???? - )
• Stanislaw Saks (Poland, 1897 - 1942)
• Juliusz Schauder (Poland, 1899 - 1943)
• Erhard Schmidt
• L. G. Schnirelmann (USSR)
• Moses Schönfinkel
• Arthur Moritz Schönflies (Germany, 1853 - 1928)
• Frans van Schooten (Netherlands, 1615 - 1660)
• Issai Schur (Russia, Germany, Israel January 10 1875-- January 10 1941)
• Laurent Schwartz (France, 1915 - 2002)
• Herrmann Amandus Schwarz (Germany, 1843-1921)
• Dana Scott
• Herbert Seifert
• Seki Kowa (Japan, 1642 - 1708)
• Atle Selberg (Norway, USA, 1917 - )
• Reinhard Selten (Germany, 193? - )
• Jean-Pierre Serre (France, 1926 - )
• Adi Shamir(Israel, 1952 - )
• Claude Elwood Shannon (USA, 1916 - 2001)
• Saharon Shelah (Israel, 1945 - )
• Goro Shimura (Japan, 1930 - )
• Peter Shor

Si-Sp

• Carl Ludwig Siegel
• Waclaw Sierpinski (Poland, 1882 - 1969)
• Isadore Singer (USA)
• Thoralf Skolem (Norway)
• Neil Sloane (USA, ???? - )
• Stephen Smale (USA, 1930 - )
• Henry John Stephen Smith (England, 1826 - 1883)
• Robert Smith (UK)
• Willebrord van Roijen Snell (Netherlands, 1580 - 1626)
• Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (USSR, 1908 - 1989)
• Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (Russia, 1842 - 1927)
• Mary Fairfax Somerville (UK, 1780 - 1872)
• Robert Sorgenfrey (USA, 1915 - 1996)
• Jean-Marie Souriau
• Donald C. Spencer
• Emanuel Sperner (Germany, 1905 - 1980)
• Michael Spivak
• Sporus of Nicaea (Asia Minor, circa 240 B.C. - circa 300 B.C.)
• William Spottiswoode (England, 1825 - 1883)

St-Sz

• Norman Steenrod (USA)
• Jožef Stefan (Austria-Hungary, Slovenia 1835-1893)
• Vladimir Steklov (Russia, 1864 - 1926)
• Hugo Steinhaus (Poland, 1887 - 1972)
• Jakob Steiner (Switzerland, 1796 - 1863)
• Simon Stevin (Netherlands, 1548 - 1620)
• Ian Stewart (UK)
• Matthew Stewart (Scotland, 1717 - 1785)
• Michael Stifel (Germany, 1487 - 1567)
• Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (Netherlands, 1856 - 1894)
• James Stirling (Scotland, 1692 - 1770)
• George Gabriel Stokes (Ireland, Britain, 1819 - 1903)
• Marshall Harvey Stone
• Volker Strassen
• Dirk Jan Struik (Netherlands, 1894-2000)
• Eduard Study
• Dennis Sullivan (US)
• Ludwig Sylow (Norway, 1832 - 1918)
• James Joseph Sylvester (England, 1814 - 1897)
• Gábor Szegö (Hungary, 1895 - 1985)
• Endre Szemerédi

T

• Teiji Takagi (Japan, April 21,1875 - February 28,1960)
• Tsuneo Tamagawa (Japanese American, 1925 - )
• Yutaka Taniyama (Japan, 1927 - 1958)
• Gaston Tarry (France, Algeria, 1843 - 1913)
• Michael Tarsi (Israel, Tel Aviv University)
• Alfred Tarski (Poland, 1902 - 1983)
• Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (Republic of Venice, 1499/1500 - 1557)
• John Tate (USA, (1925-)
• Brook Taylor (Britain, 1685 - 1731)
• Oswald Teichmüller (Germany, 1913 - 1943)
• Thales of Miletus, (circa B.C.624 - B.C.547)
• Thorvald Thiele
• René Thom (France, 1923 - )
• John Griggs Thompson (USA, 1932 - )
• Axel Thue (Norway)
• William Thurston (1946 - )
• Jacques Tits (Belgium, 1930 - )
• Otto Toeplitz
• Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (Spain, 1852 - 1936)
• László Fejes Tóth (Hungary)
• 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
• Pál Turán (Hungary)
• Alan Turing (Britain, 1912 - 1954)
• Helge Tverberg
• Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff (USSR, 1906 - 1993)
• Vera T.Sós (Hungary)

U

• Stanislaw Marcin Ulam (Poland, USA, 1909 - 1984)
• Uqlidisi (Middle East, 920 - 990)
• Paul Samuilovich Urysohn (USSR, 1898 - 1924)

V

• Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (France)
• Vladimir Vapnik (Russia)
• Oswald Veblen
• Jurij Vega (Slovenia, 1754 - 1802)
• Pierre Vernier
• Ivan Vidav (Slovenia, 1918 - )
• François Viète (France, 1540 - 1603)
• Leopold Vietoris (Austria, 1891 - 2002)
• Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (USSR, 1891-1983)
• Giuseppe Vitali (Ravenna, Italy,1875-1932)
• Vito Volterra (Papal States, Italy, 1860 - 1940)

W

• John Wallis (England)
• Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (Netherlands, 1903 - 1996)
• Edward Waring (England, 1736 - 1798)
• Tadeusz Wazewski (Poland, 1896 - 1972)
• Heinrich Weber (Germany, 1842-1913)
• Joseph Wedderburn (Scotland, 1882-1948)
• Karl Weierstrass (Germany, 1815 - 1897)
• André Weil (France, 1906 - 1998)
• Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (Germany, USA, 1885 - 1955)
• Hassler Whitney (USA 1907-1989)
• Arthur Wieferich (Germany, 1884 - 1954)
• Norbert Wiener (USA, 1894 - 1964)
• Andrew Wiles (Britain, 1953 - )
• James H. Wilkinson (England, 1919 - 1986)
• Edward Witten (USA, 1951 - )
• Vladimir Voevodsky (Russia, 1966 - )
• John Wilson (England, 1741 - 1793)
• Joseph Wolstenholme (England, 1829 - 1891)
• Christopher Wren (England, 1632 - 1723)
• E. M. Wright
• Josef Wronski (Poland, 1778 - 1853)

Y

• Shing-Tung Yau (China, USA, 1949 - )
• Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (France, 1957 - )
• Yoneda Nobuo (Japan, 28 March, 1930-21 April, 1996)
• Grace Chisholm Young (UK, 1868-1944)

Z

• Kazimierz Zarankiewicz (Poland 1902 - 1959)
• Stanislaw Zaremba (Poland 1863 - 1942)
• 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)
• Zu Chongzhi (China, 429 - 500)
• Herbert Samuel Zuckerman (1912 - 1970)
• Antoni Zygmund (Poland 1900 - 1992)

See also

• List of amateur mathematicians
• List of Slovenian mathematicians

External links

• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive – Very complete list of detailed biographies.