Category: Mathematicians

A

• Maria Gaetana Agnesi 16 May 1718 Milano, Lombardia, Italia - 9 Jan 1799
• Alexander Colvin Ainslie MA LLD abt 5 Aug 1830 Hammersmith, Middlesex, England - 5 Jun 1903
• Benjamin Alvord 18 Aug 1813 Rutland, Vermont, United States - 16 Oct 1884
• Harold Freeman Archibald 6 Nov 1906 Milton, Queens County, NS, Canada - Aug 1964
• Raymond Clare Archibald 7 Oct 1875 Upper Stewiake, Nova Scotia - 26 Jul 1955

B

• Levi (ben Gershon) Gersonides 1288 Languedoc, France - 1344
• Alicia Boole 8 Jun 1860 Cork, Ireland - 17 Dec 1940
• George Boole 2 Nov 1815 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England - 8 Dec 1864
• Marc Kemner Boulay 9 Aug 1953 Paris, France - 16 May 2016

C

• Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor 3 Mar 1845 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire - 6 Jan 1918
• Gerolamo Cardano 24 Sep 1501 Pavia, Italy - 21 Sep 1576
• Arthur Cayley 16 Aug 1821 Richmond, Surrey, England - 26 Jan 1895
• Anders Celsius 27 Nov 1701 Uppsala, Sweden - 25 Apr 1744
• Samuel Hunter Christie 22 Mar 1784 London, England - 24 Jan 1865
• William Henry Mahony Christie 1 Oct 1845 Woolwich, England - 22 Jan 1922
• John Williams Colenso 24 Jan 1814 St Austell, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom - 20 Jun 1883

D

• Alphonse de Polignac 1826 London, England - Jun 1863
• René Descartes 31 Mar 1596 La-Haye-en-Touraine, Touraine, France - 11 Feb 1650
• Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné 1 Jul 1906 Lille, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France - 29 Nov 1992
• Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 11 May 1930 Rotterdam, Netherlands - 6 Aug 2002

E

• Clifford J Earle 3 Nov 1935 Racine, Racine, Wisconsin, United States - 12 Jun 2017

E cont.

• Mary (Everest) Boole 11 Mar 1832 Wickwar, Gloucestershire, England - aft 1 Jan 1916

F

• Pierre (Fermat) de Fermat 17 Aug 1601 Beaumont-de-Lomagne, Armagnac, France - 12 Jan 1665
• Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege 8 Nov 1848 Wismar - 26 Jul 1925

G

• Évariste Galois 25 Oct 1811 Bourg-la-Reine, Seine, France - 31 May 1832
• Kurt Friedrich Gödel 28 Apr 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - 14 Jan 1978
• James (Gregorie) Gregory abt Nov 1638 Drumoak Parrish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - abt Oct 1675

H

• Richard Wesley Hamming 11 Feb 1915 Chicago, Illinois, USA - 7 Jan 1998
• Godfrey Harold Hardy 7 Feb 1877 Cranleigh, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 1 Dec 1947
• Percy John Heawood 8 Sep 1861 Newport, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom - 24 Jan 1955
• Archibald Henderson 17 Jul 1877 Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States - 6 Dec 1963
• David Hilbert 23 Jan 1862 Königsberg - 14 Feb 1943
• Charles Howard Hinton abt 1853 Bartholomew Square, London, England - 30 Apr 1907

K

• Alfred Bray Kempe 6 Jul 1849 Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom - 21 Apr 1922
• László Á. (Kóczy) Kóczy de Borgó et Nagy-Sikárló 1970s - unknown
• Eugene Edmund Kohlbecker 8 Nov 1923 Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA - 16 Apr 1977

L

• Pierre-Simon (Laplace) de Laplace 23 Mar 1749 Beaumont-en-Auge, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France - 5 Mar 1827

M

• Charles K. Megibben III 1930s - 2010s
• Maryam Mirzakhani 3 May 1977 Tehrān, Iran - 15 Jul 2017
• Henry Moseley 9 Jul 1801 England - 20 Jan 1872

N

• John Napier 1550 Merchiston, Midlothian, Scotland - abt 4 Apr 1617
• Simon Newcomb 12 Mar 1835 Wallace Bridge, Nova Scotia - 11 Jul 1909
• Isaac Newton 4 Jan 1643 Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England - 20 Mar 1727

N cont.

• Amelie Emmy Noether 23 Mar 1882 Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany - 14 Apr 1935
• Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether 7 Oct 1884 Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany - 10 Sep 1941
• Max Noether 24 Sep 1844 Mannheim, Baden, Germany - 13 Dec 1921

O

• William Oughtred 5 Mar 1574 Eton, Buckinghamshire, England - 30 Jun 1660

P

• Blaise Pascal 19 Jun 1623 Clermont-Ferrand, France - 19 Aug 1662
• Benjamin Peirce 4 Apr 1809 Salem, Massachusetts, USA - 6 Oct 1880
• Charles Sanders Peirce 10 Sep 1839 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - 19 Apr 1914
• Jules Henry Poincaré 29 Apr 1854 Nancy, Meurthe, France - 17 Jul 1912
• Emil Leon Post 11 Feb 1897 Augustów, Suwałki Governorate, Russian Empire - 21 Apr 1954

R

• Edward John Routh 20 Jan 1831 Québec, Bas-Canada - 7 Jun 1907
• Bertrand Arthur William Russell 18 May 1872 Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales - 2 Feb 1970

S

• Charles Scarborough FRS, FRCP before 29 Dec 1615 Westminster, Middlesex, England - 26 Feb 1694
• William Shanks 25 Jan 1812 Corsenside, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom - Jun 1882
• Claude Elwood Shannon 30 Apr 1916 Petoskey, Michigan, United States - 24 Feb 2001

T

• Marion Franklin Tinsley 3 Feb 1927 Ironton, Lawrence, Ohio, United States - 3 Apr 1995
• Evangelista Torricelli 15 Oct 1608 Rome, Italy - 25 Oct 1647
• Hale F. Trotter 1930s - unknown
• Tufte-15

V

• John Venn FRS FSA 4 Aug 1834 Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England - 4 Apr 1923
• Pierre Vernier 19 Aug 1580 Ornans, France - 14 Sep 1637

W

• Mary Augusta (Walzl) Mauchly - 8 Sep 1946
• Maria Fernande Friederike (Wedemeyer) von Wedemeyer-Weller 23 Apr 1924 Pätzig, Landkreis Königsberg Neumark, Germany (now Poland) - 16 Nov 1977