Category: Mathematicians
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A Mathematician applies the science of mathematics in their work.
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Person Profiles (412)
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Richard Hamilton
1940s
Richard Hamming
11 Feb 1915 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States - 07 Jan 1998
Godfrey Hardy
07 Feb 1877 Cranleigh, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 01 Dec 1947
Joseph Harlan
18 Sep 1825 West Fallowfield Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States - 12 Nov 1857
Thomas Harriot
abt 1560 Oxfordshire, England - 02 Jul 1621
Douglas Hartree
27 Mar 1897 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom - 12 Feb 1958
Colin Haselgrove
26 Sep 1926 Waltham Forest, London, England, United Kingdom - 27 May 1964
Hellmut (Haße) Hasse
25 Aug 1898 Kassel, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Deutsches Reich - 26 Dec 1979
Felix Hausdorff
08 Nov 1868 Breslau, Schlesien, Preußen, Norddeutscher Bund - 26 Jan 1942
Oliver Heaviside
18 May 1850 Camden Town, London, England - 03 Feb 1925
Percy Heawood
08 Sep 1861 Newport, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom - 24 Jan 1955
Albert Heins
07 Sep 1912 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - 24 Jun 1992
Maurice Heins
19 Nov 1915 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - 04 Jun 2015
Archibald Henderson
17 Jul 1877 Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States - 06 Dec 1963
Charles Hermite
abt 24 Dec 1822 Dieuze, Moselle, France - abt 14 Jan 1901
David Hilbert
23 Jan 1862 Königsberg, Preußen, Deutscher Bund - 14 Feb 1943
George Hill
03 Mar 1838 New York City, New York County, New York, United States - 16 Apr 1914
Charles Hinton
abt 1853 Bartholomew Square, London, England - 30 Apr 1907
William Hodge
17 Jun 1903 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom - 07 Jul 1975
Heinz Hopf
19 Nov 1894 Gräbschen, Landkreis Breslau, Regierungsbezirk Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, German Empire - 03 Jun 1971
Lars Hörmander
24 Jan 1931 Mjällby, Blekinge, Sweden - 25 Nov 2012
Thomas Hornsby
bef 27 Aug 1733 Durham, County Durham, England - 11 Apr 1810
Edward Huntington
26 Apr 1874 Clinton, Oneida, New York, United States - 25 Nov 1952
Edmund Husserl
08 Apr 1859 Proßnitz, Mähren, Österreich - 27 Apr 1938
Charles Hutton
14 Aug 1737 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England - 27 Jan 1823
Christiaan Huygens
14 Apr 1629 's-Gravenhage, Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden - 08 Jul 1695
I
James Inman
abt Feb 1776 Sedbergh, Yorkshire, England - 07 Feb 1859
John Isbell
27 Oct 1930 Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States - 06 Aug 2005
Kiyosi Itô
07 Sep 1915 Hokuseicho, Inabegun, Mie-ken, Japan - 10 Nov 2008
J
Katherine (Jay) Roseveare
09 Nov 1920 Herefordshire, England - 24 Sep 2010
James Jeans
11 Sep 1877 Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom - 16 Sep 1946
Scott Johnson
27 Nov 1961 Los Angeles, California, United States - 08 Dec 1988
K
Gittel (Kaimowitz) Blanche
02 Feb 1897 Kolno, Russian Empire - 01 Jan 1996
Louis Karpinski
05 Aug 1878 Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States - 25 Jan 1956
Alfred Kempe
06 Jul 1849 Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom - 21 Apr 1922
Christian Felix Klein
25 Apr 1849 Düsseldorf, Rheinprovinz, Preußen, Deutscher Bund - 22 Jun 1925
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Eugene Kohlbecker
08 Nov 1923 Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA - 16 Apr 1977
Sofia Korvin-Krukovsky
15 Jan 1850 Moscow, Moscow Uyezd, Moscow, Russian Empire - 10 Feb 1891
Alfred Korzybski
03 Jul 1879 Warsaw, Poland - 01 Mar 1950
Leopold Kronecker
07 Dec 1823 Liegnitz, Liegnitz, Silesia, Prussia, Germany - 29 Dec 1891
L
Christine (Ladd) Ladd-Franklin
01 Dec 1847 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States - 05 Mar 1930
Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrange
abt 25 Jan 1736 Torino, Regno di Sardegna - abt 10 Apr 1813
Horace Lamb
27 Nov 1849 Stockport, Cheshire, England - 04 Dec 1934
Johann Lambert
abt 26 Aug 1728 Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France - 25 Sep 1777
Gabriel Lamé
22 Jul 1795 Tours, France - 01 May 1870
Edward Langley
22 Jan 1851 Buckden, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom - 09 Jun 1933
Pierre-Simon (Laplace) de Laplace
23 Mar 1749 Beaumont-en-Auge, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France - 05 Mar 1827
Mary (Layne) Boas
10 Mar 1917 Prosser, Benton, Washington, United States - 17 Feb 2010
Henri Lebesgue
28 Jun 1875 Beauvais, France - 26 Jul 1941
Adrien Legendre
18 Sep 1752 Paris, Île-de-France, France - 09 Jan 1833
Living Lehrer
William Leitch
20 May 1814 Rothesay, Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom - 09 May 1864
Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaître
17 Jul 1894 Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium - 20 Jun 1966
John Lennox
1940s
Gabrielle Émilie (le Tonnelier de Breteuil) du Châtelet
17 Dec 1706 Paris, Île-de-France, France - 10 Sep 1749
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier
11 Mar 1811 Saint-Lô, Manche, France - 23 Sep 1877
Tullio Levi-Civita
29 Mar 1873 Padova, Veneto, Italy - 29 Dec 1941
Lucien Lévy
07 Oct 1853 Paris, Seine, France - abt 02 Aug 1912
Marie-Hélène (Lévy) Schwartz
27 Oct 1913 Paris XVI, Seine, France - 05 Jan 2013
Paul Pierre Lévy
15 Sep 1886 Paris, Seine, France - 15 Dec 1971
Enoch Lewis
abt 29 Jan 1776 Radnor, Delaware, Province of Pennsylvania - 14 Jul 1856
Marius Lie
17 Dec 1842 Nordfjordeid, Selje, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway - 18 Feb 1899
Ernst Lindelöf
07 Mar 1870 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland - 04 Jun 1946
Joseph Liouville
24 Mar 1809 Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France - 08 Sep 1882
John Littlewood
09 Jun 1885 Rochester, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 06 Sep 1977
Nikolai Lobachevsky
abt 20 Nov 1792 Nizhny Novgorod Guberniya, Russian Empire - abt 12 Feb 1856
L cont.
Martha (Lofton) Haynes
11 Sep 1890 Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 25 Jul 1980
Aleksandr Lyapunov
06 Jun 1857 Yaroslavl Guberniya, Russian Empire - 03 Nov 1918
M
Leslie (MacLane) Mac Lane
04 Aug 1909 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States - 14 Apr 2005
Prasanta Mahalanobis
29 Jun 1893 Calcutta, West Bengal, India - 28 Jun 1972
Giovanni Alessandro Majocchi
1795 Lodi, Milano, Lombardy, Italy - 27 Nov 1854
Vivienne (Malone) Mayes
10 Feb 1932 Waco, McLennan, Texas, United States of America - 09 Jun 1995
Benoit Mandelbrot
20 Nov 1924 Warsaw, Poland - 14 Oct 2010
Andrej Markov
14 Jun 1856 Ryazan Guberniya, Russian Empire - 20 Jul 1922
Phoebe (Marks) Ayrton
28 Apr 1854 Portsea, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 23 Aug 1923
John McCarthy
04 Sep 1927 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - 24 Oct 2011
Richard McCord
04 Nov 1930 Bethesda, Greene, Tennessee, United States - 20 Nov 2015
Robert McEliece
21 May 1942 Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 08 May 2019
Dorothy Estheryne (McFadden) Hoover
01 Jul 1918 Hope, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States - 07 Feb 2000
Magdalene (McTarnaghan) Hettler
17 Dec 1917 Grove, Allegany, New York, United States - 25 Oct 2019
Charles Megibben
1930s - 2010s
Robert Mellin
19 Jun 1854 Liminka, Finland - 05 Apr 1933
Milutin Milanković
16 May 1879 Dalj, Verőce, Hungary - 12 Dec 1958
Kelly Miller
18 Jul 1863 Winnsboro, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States - 29 Dec 1939
Hermann Minkowski
22 Jun 1864 Kovno, Russian Empire - 12 Jan 1909
Marvin Minsky
09 Aug 1927 New York City, New York, United States - 24 Jan 2016
Albert (Mitchell) Boaz
27 Nov 1929 Hallsboro, Columbus, North Carolina, United States - 13 Sep 2014
Magnus Mittag-Leffler
16 Mar 1846 Stockholm, Sweden - 07 Jul 1927
Abraham (Moivre) de Moivre
26 May 1667 Vitry-le-François, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France - 27 Nov 1754
Gerard Moll
18 Jan 1785 Holland, Netherlands - 17 Jan 1838
Karl Mollweide
03 Feb 1774 Wolfenbüttel, Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig, Germany - 10 Mar 1825
Gaspard Monge
09 May 1746 Beaune-Sud, Beaune, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France - 28 Jul 1818
Peter Montgomery
25 Sep 1947 San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States - 18 Feb 2020
Harold Morse
24 Mar 1892 Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, United States - 22 Jun 1977
Henry Moseley
09 Jul 1801 England - 20 Jan 1872
Sumner Myers
19 Feb 1910 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - 08 Oct 1955
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John Napier
abt 1550 Merchiston, Midlothian, Scotland - abt 04 Apr 1617
Carl Gottfried Neumann
07 May 1832 Königsberg, Preußen - 27 Mar 1925
Maxwell (Neumann) Newman
07 Feb 1897 Chelsea, London, England - 22 Feb 1984
Simon Newcomb
12 Mar 1835 Wallace Bridge, Cumberland, Nova Scotia - 11 Jul 1909
Allen Newell
19 Mar 1927 San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States - 19 Jul 1992
Isaac Newton
25 Dec 1642 Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England - 20 Mar 1727
Peter Nicholson
20 Jul 1765 Prestonkirk, Haddingtonshire, Scotland - 18 Jun 1844
Amalie Emmy Noether
23 Mar 1882 Erlangen, Bayern, Deutsches Reich - 14 Apr 1935
Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether
07 Oct 1884 Erlangen, Bayern, Deutsches Reich - 10 Sep 1941
Gottfried Emanuel Noether
07 Jan 1915 Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire - 22 Aug 1991
Max Noether
24 Sep 1844 Mannheim, Baden, Deutscher Bund - 13 Dec 1921
Henry Tertius James Norton
1886 Paddington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 1937
O
Living Otani
William Oughtred
05 Mar 1574 Eton, Buckinghamshire, England - 30 Jun 1660
P
Paul Painlevé
05 Dec 1863 Paris, France - 29 Oct 1933
Attilio Palatini
18 Nov 1889 Treviso, Veneto, Italy - 24 Aug 1949
Raymond Paley
08 Jan 1907 1 Connaught Road, Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom - 07 Apr 1933
Seymour Aubrey Papert
29 Feb 1928 Pretoria, Transvaal, Union of South Africa - 01 Aug 2016
Blaise Pascal
19 Jun 1623 Clermont-Ferrand, France - 19 Aug 1662
George Peacock
09 Apr 1791 Denton, Northumberland, England - 08 Nov 1858
Giuseppe Peano
27 Aug 1858 Spinetta, Cuneo, Cuneo, Piemonte, Italia - 20 Apr 1932
Benjamin Peirce
04 Apr 1809 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States - 06 Oct 1880
Charles Peirce
10 Sep 1839 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States - 19 Apr 1914
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
22 Dec 1765 Stuttgart, Württemberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich - 21 Apr 1825
Robert Phelps
22 Mar 1926 California, United States - 04 Jan 2013
Henry Phillips
27 Sep 1881 Yadkin College Township, Davidson, North Carolina, United States - 14 Nov 1972
Charles Picard
24 Jul 1856 Paris, Seine, France - 11 Dec 1941
Georg Pick
10 Aug 1859 Vienna, Austria - 26 Jul 1942
Zareh Pirenian
1900s - 1970s
Joseph Plateau
14 Oct 1801 Brussel, Dijledepartement, Franse Republiek - 15 Sep 1883
John Playfair
Mar 1748 Benvie, Forfarshire, Scotland - 20 Jul 1819
Jules Henri Poincaré
29 Apr 1854 Nancy, Meurthe, France - 17 Jul 1912
Siméon Poisson
21 Jun 1781 Pithiviers, Pithiviers, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France - 25 Apr 1840
George Pólya
13 Dec 1887 Budapest, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Hungary - 07 Sep 1985
Emil Post
11 Feb 1897 Augustów, Suwałki Governorate, Russian Empire - 21 Apr 1954
Eleanor Pressly
20 Aug 1918 Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States - 10 May 2003
Victor Alexandre Puiseux
16 Apr 1820 Argenteuil, Seine-et-Oise, Île-de-France, France - 09 Sep 1883
P cont.
Hilary Putnam
31 Jul 1926 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States - 13 Mar 2016
Q
Willard Quine
25 Jun 1908 Akron, Summit, Ohio, United States - 25 Dec 2000
R
Srinivasa Ramanujan
22 Dec 1887 Erode, British Raj - 26 Apr 1920
Charles Reason
abt 21 Jul 1818 New York City, New York, USA - 16 Aug 1893
Albert (Reid) Bharucha-Reid
13 Nov 1927 Hampton, Virginia, United States - 26 Feb 1985
Marian Rejewski
16 Aug 1905 Bromberg, Posen, Prussia, Germany - 13 Feb 1980
Alfréd Rényi
20 Mar 1921 Budapest, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Hungary - 01 Feb 1970
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
12 Jan 1853 Lugo, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - 06 Aug 1925
Lewis Richardson
11 Oct 1881 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom - 30 Sep 1953
Bernhard Riemann
17 Sep 1826 Breselenz - 20 Jul 1866
Adam Ries
abt 1492 Staffelstein, Bayern, Deutschland - 30 Mar 1559
Joseph Ritt
23 Aug 1893 New York City, New York, United States - 05 Jan 1951
Robert Roberts
abt 1809 Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom - 12 Apr 1885
Raphael Robinson
02 Nov 1911 National City, San Diego, California, United States - 27 Jan 1995
Gustav Roch
09 Dec 1839 Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany - 21 Nov 1866
Robert Roseveare
23 May 1923 Repton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom - 08 Dec 2004
Mary Ross
09 Aug 1908 Park Hill, Cherokee, Oklahoma, United States - 29 Apr 2008
Edward Routh
20 Jan 1831 Québec, Bas-Canada - 07 Jun 1907
Carl Runge
30 Aug 1856 Bremen - 03 Jan 1927
Bertrand Russell
18 May 1872 Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales - 02 Feb 1970
S
Gerald Sacks
1933 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States - 04 Oct 2019
George Salmon
25 Sep 1819 Dublin, Ireland - 22 Jan 1904
Pierre Samuel
12 Sep 1921 Paris XVI, Seine, France - 22 Aug 2009
Charles Scarborough
29 Dec 1615 Westminster, Middlesex, England - 26 Feb 1694
Theodor Schönemann
04 Apr 1812 Driesen, Friedeberg in der Neumark, Brandenburg, Prussia - 16 Jan 1868
Issai Schur
10 Jan 1875 Mogilev Guberniya, Russian Empire - abt 10 Jan 1941
Laurent Schwartz
05 Mar 1915 Paris XVI, Seine, France - 04 Jul 2002
Karl Schwarz
25 Jan 1843 Hermsdorf, Schlesien, Preußen, Deutschland - 30 Nov 1921
Sanford Segal
11 Oct 1937 - 07 May 2010
Atle Selberg
14 Jun 1917 Langesund, Bratsberg, Norway - 06 Aug 2007
William Shanks
25 Jan 1812 Corsenside, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom - Jun 1882
Claude Shannon
30 Apr 1916 Petoskey, Michigan, United States - 24 Feb 2001
Norman Shapiro
28 Jan 1932 - 14 Oct 2021
Wacław Sierpiński
14 Mar 1882 Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland - 21 Oct 1969
Stanley Skewes
1899 Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa - 1988
Glenny Smeal
13 Feb 1890 Ararat, Victoria, Australia - 24 Feb 1974
William Smith
26 Oct 1850 Stanford, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States - 06 Aug 1934
Raymond Smullyan
25 May 1919 Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, New York, United States - 06 Feb 2017
Frank Ludwig Spitzer
24 Jul 1926 Wien, Österreich - 01 Feb 1992
John Stallings
22 Jul 1935 Morrilton, Conway, Arkansas, United States - 24 Nov 2008
Josef Stefan
24 Mar 1835 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Carinthia, Austria - 07 Jan 1893
Jakob Steiner
18 Mar 1796 Utzenstorf, Bern, Switzerland - 01 Apr 1863
Hugo Steinhaus
14 Jan 1887 Jasło, Bezirk Jasło, Galicia, Austria - 25 Feb 1972
Karl Steinmetz
09 Apr 1865 Breslau, Regierungsbezirk Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, German Empire - 26 Oct 1923
George Stokes
13 Aug 1819 Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland - 01 Feb 1903
George Stoney
15 Feb 1826 Birr, County Offaly, Ireland - 05 Jul 1911
Robert Stong
23 Aug 1936 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States - 10 Apr 2008
Henry Swinnerton-Dyer
02 Aug 1927 Castle Ward, Northumberland, England - 26 Dec 2018
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Peter Tait
28 Apr 1831 Dalkeith, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 04 Jul 1901
Paul Teichmüller
18 Jun 1913 Nordhausen, Saxony, Prussia, Germany - 11 Sep 1943
Alfred (Teitelbaum) Tarski
14 Jan 1901 Warsaw, Masovia, Poland - 26 Oct 1983
Riho Terras
13 Jun 1939 Tartu, Estonia - 28 Nov 2005
Living Thistlethwaite
Marion Tinsley
03 Feb 1927 Ironton, Lawrence, Ohio, United States - 03 Apr 1995
Evangelista Torricelli
15 Oct 1608 Roma, Lazio, Italy - 25 Oct 1647
Albert Tucker
28 Nov 1905 Oshawa, Whitby, York, Ontario, Canada - 25 Jan 1995
Living Tufte
John Tukey
16 Jun 1915 New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States - 26 Jul 2000
Alan Turing
23 Jun 1912 Maida Vale, London, England, United Kingdom - 07 Jun 1954
William Tutte
14 May 1917 Fitzroy House, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, England - 02 May 2002
John Twysden
abt 01 May 1607 East Peckham, Kent, England - 13 Sep 1688
U
Stanisław Ulam
13 Apr 1909 Lemberg, Lwów, Galicia, Austria - 13 May 1984
V
Elbridge Vance
07 Feb 1915 Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States - 18 Feb 2007
David van Dantzig
23 Sep 1900 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland - 22 Jul 1959
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