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A Mathematician applies the science of mathematics in their work.

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Алексе́й Aleksey (Крыло́в) Krylov Aug 1863 Alatyrsky, Russia - 26 Oct 1945

Благовест Сендов 08 Feb 1932 asenovgrad, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - 19 Jan 2020

Николай Сухомлин Apr 1945 Ленинград, Советский Союз - 12 Jan 2010

مریم (میرزاخانی) Mirzakhani 12 May 1977 Tehran, Iran - 14 Jul 2017

道郎 久賀 1928 - 13 Feb 1990

幹夫 佐藤 18 Apr 1928 日本東京府 - 09 Jan 2023

金之助 小倉 14 Mar 1885 日本山形県酒田市 - 21 Oct 1962

邦彦 小平 16 Mar 1915 日本東京府 - 26 Jul 1997

健吉 岩澤 11 Sep 1917 日本群馬県 - 26 Oct 1998

昌吉 (彌永) 弥永 02 Apr 1906 日本東京府 - 01 Jun 2006

五郞 志村 23 Feb 1930 日本静岡県浜松市 - 03 May 2019

正敏 (池田) Ikeda 25 Feb 1926 日本東京府 - 09 Feb 2003

浩 (王) Wang 20 May 1921 中國山東濟南市 - 13 May 1995

長致 神保 1842 - 02 Dec 1910

外史 竹内 25 Jan 1926 日本石川県 - 10 May 2017

大麓 (箕作) 菊池 17 Mar 1855 日本武蔵国 - 19 Aug 1917

正彦 藤原 1940s

利喜太郞 藤澤 02 Oct 1861 日本佐渡国 - 23 Dec 1933

伸之 (蘆ヶ原) 芦ヶ原 27 May 1936 日本 - 19 Jun 2004

豐 谷山 12 Nov 1927 日本埼玉県北埼玉郡 - 17 Nov 1958

克己 (野水) Nomizu 01 Dec 1924 日本大阪府 - 05 Nov 2018

康正 金田 1949 日本兵庫県たつの市 - 11 Feb 2020

浩 銀林 09 Aug 1927 日本東京府 - 18 Aug 2020

省身 (陳) Chern 28 Oct 1911 中國浙江省嘉興市 - 03 Dec 2004

貞治 高木 21 Apr 1875 日本岐阜県大野郡 - 28 Feb 1960

Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρής 13 Sep 1873 Berlin, Brandenburg, Preußen, Deutsches Reich - 02 Feb 1950

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Niels Abel 05 Aug 1802 Nedstrand, Rogaland, Norway - 06 Apr 1829

Maria Agnesi 16 May 1718 Milano, Lombardia, Italia - 09 Jan 1799

Alexander Ainslie abt 05 Aug 1830 Hammersmith, Middlesex, England - 05 Jun 1903

Archie Alexander 14 May 1888 Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States - 04 Jan 1958

Benjamin Alvord 18 Aug 1813 Rutland, Vermont, United States - 16 Oct 1884

André-Marie Ampère 20 Jan 1775 Lyon, Lyonnais, France - 10 Jun 1836

James Andrews 18 Mar 1930 Seneca Falls, Seneca, New York, United States - 28 Jul 1998

Harold Archibald 06 Nov 1906 Milton, Queens County, NS, Canada - Aug 1964

Raymond Archibald 07 Oct 1875 Upper Stewiake, Nova Scotia - 26 Jul 1955

John Atanasoff 04 Oct 1903 Hamilton, New York, United States - 15 Jun 1995

B

Francis Baily 28 Apr 1774 Newbury, Berkshire, England - 30 Aug 1844

Benjamin Banneker 09 Nov 1731 Baltimore County, Maryland - 09 Oct 1806

Heinrich Barschel 03 Dec 1908 Quedlinburg, Sachsen, Preußen, Deutsches Reich - Apr 1945

George Batchelor 08 Mar 1920 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - 30 Mar 2000

Pierre Joseph Henry Baudet 22 Jan 1891 Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland - 25 Dec 1921

Thomas Bayes abt 1701 London, England - 07 Apr 1761

Thomas Bedwell 1544 England - Apr 1595

Václav Benda 08 Aug 1946 Prague, Czechoslovakia - 02 Jun 1999

Levi (ben Gershon) Gersonides 1288 Languedoc, France - 1344

Conway Berners-Lee 10 Sep 1921 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom - 01 Feb 2019

Michael Bizony 03 Feb 1924 Vienna, Austria - abt Jun 1994

David Blackwell 24 Apr 1919 Centralia, Marion, Illinois, United States - 08 Jul 2010

Ralph Boas 08 Aug 1912 Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States - 25 Jul 1992

Johann Gottlieb Friedrich (Bohnenberger) von Bohnenberger 05 Jun 1765 Simmozheim, Calw, Württemberg, Germany - 19 Apr 1831

Farkas Bolyai abt 09 Feb 1775 Bolya, Sibiu, Romania - abt 20 Nov 1856

János Bolyai 15 Dec 1802 Kolozsvár, Kolozs, Hungary - 27 Jan 1860

Alicia (Boole) Stott 08 Jun 1860 Cork, Ireland - 17 Dec 1940

George Boole 02 Nov 1815 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England - 08 Dec 1864

Satyendra Bose 01 Jan 1894 Calcutta, West Bengal, India - 04 Feb 1974

Marc Kemner Boulay 09 Aug 1953 Paris, France - 16 May 2016

Robert Boyer 11 Dec 1932 Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States - 01 Aug 1966

Henry Briggs Feb 1561 Warleywood, Yorkshire, England - 26 Jan 1630

Hylda Britten 09 Jul 1922 Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom - 29 Sep 2022

Arthur Brown 15 Sep 1878 Clinton, Kennebec, Maine, United States - 1918

Gertrude (Brown) Williams 04 Apr 1912 Ohio, United States - 14 Sep 1982

Gladys Mae (Brown) West 1930s

William Bryant 29 Nov 1922 McKenzie, Carroll, Tennessee, United States - 25 Apr 2014

Augusta (Byron) Lovelace 10 Dec 1815 London, England, United Kingdom - 27 Nov 1852

C

Georg Cantor 03 Mar 1845 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire - 06 Jan 1918

Gerolamo Cardano 24 Sep 1501 Pavia, Italy - 21 Sep 1576

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet abt 17 Sep 1743 Ribemont, Picardie, France - abt 29 Mar 1794

Thomas Carlyle 04 Dec 1795 Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland - 05 Feb 1881

C cont.

Henri Cartan 08 Jul 1904 Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France - 13 Aug 2008

Élie Cartan abt 09 Apr 1869 Dolomieu, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France - 06 May 1951

Mary Cartwright 17 Dec 1900 Aynho, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom - 03 Apr 1998

Walter Carver 11 Jan 1879 Town Hill, Huntington Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States - 04 Jul 1961

Louis Augustin Cauchy 21 Aug 1789 Paris, Île-de-France, France - 23 May 1857

Arthur Cayley 16 Aug 1821 Richmond, Surrey, England - 26 Jan 1895

Andreas Celsius 27 Nov 1701 Uppsala domkyrkoförsamling, Uppsala län, Sverige - 25 Apr 1744

Pafnuty Chebyshev abt 04 May 1821 Kaluga, Russian Empire - abt 26 Nov 1894

Samuel Hunter Christie 22 Mar 1784 London, England - 24 Jan 1865

William Henry Mahony Christie 01 Oct 1845 Woolwich, England - 22 Jan 1922

Elwin Christoffel 10 Nov 1829 Montjoie, Rhineland, Prussia, Germany - 15 Mar 1900

William Claytor 04 Jan 1908 Norfolk, Virginia, United States - 14 Jul 1967

William Clifford abt 04 May 1845 Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom - abt 03 Mar 1879

Creola (Coleman) Johnson 26 Aug 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, West Virginia, United States - 24 Feb 2020

John Colenso 24 Jan 1814 St Austell, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom - 20 Jun 1883

John Conway 26 Dec 1937 Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom - 11 Apr 2020

Edward Courtenay 19 Nov 1803 Baltimore, Maryland, United States - 21 Dec 1853

Robert Coveyou 09 Feb 1915 Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan, United States - 19 Feb 1996

Harold Coxeter 09 Feb 1907 London, England, United Kingdom - 31 Mar 2003

Carl Cramér 25 Sep 1893 Stockholm, Sweden - 05 Oct 1985

D

Harold Davenport 30 Oct 1907 Huncoat, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom - 09 Jun 1969

Paul Davenport 24 Apr 1932 Airey, Dorchester, Maryland, United States - 30 Mar 2017

Philip Davis 02 Jan 1923 Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, United States - 14 Mar 2018

John Dawson bef 15 Feb 1734 Garsdale, Yorkshire, England - 19 Sep 1820

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis 21 May 1792 Paris, Seine, France - 19 Sep 1843

Alphonse Armand Charles Georges Marie de Polignac 27 Mar 1826 London, England - 30 Jun 1863

René Descartes 31 Mar 1596 La-Haye-en-Touraine, Touraine, France - 11 Feb 1650

Jean Dieudonné 01 Jul 1906 Lille, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France - 29 Nov 1992

Whitfield Diffie 1940s

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 11 May 1930 Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland - 06 Aug 2002

Johann Peter Gustav Dirichlet 13 Feb 1805 Düren, Aaachen, Rur-Departement, Frankreich - 05 May 1859

Freeman Dyson 15 Dec 1923 Crowthorne, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom - 28 Feb 2020

E

Clifford Earle 03 Nov 1935 Racine, Racine, Wisconsin, United States - 12 Jun 2017

James Eells 25 Oct 1926 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States - 14 Feb 2007

Ferdinand Eisenstein 16 Apr 1823 Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, German Empire - 11 Oct 1852

Pál Erdős 26 Mar 1913 Budapest, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Hungary - 20 Sep 1996

Leonhard Euler 15 Apr 1707 Basel, Basel, Schweiz - 18 Sep 1783

Mary (Everest) Boole 11 Mar 1832 Wickwar, Gloucestershire, England - aft 01 Jan 1916

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Francine Faure 06 Dec 1914 Oran, Algérie - 24 Dec 1979

Pierre (Fermat) de Fermat 17 Aug 1601 Beaumont-de-Lomagne, Armagnac, France - 12 Jan 1665

John Fields 14 May 1863 Hamilton, Wentworth, Canada West - 09 Aug 1932

Ronald Fisher 17 Feb 1890 East Finchley, Middlesex - 29 Jul 1962

Merrill Flood 28 Nov 1908 Seward County, Nebraska, United States - 24 Mar 1991

Jean-Joseph Fourier 21 Mar 1768 Auxerre, France - 16 May 1830

Erik Fredholm 07 Apr 1866 Stockholm, Sweden - 17 Aug 1927

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege 08 Nov 1848 Wismar - 26 Jul 1925

Aleksandr Friedmann 16 Jun 1888 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire - 16 Sep 1925

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius 26 Oct 1849 Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany - 03 Aug 1917

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Évariste Galois 25 Oct 1811 Bourg-la-Reine, Seine, France - 31 May 1832

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß 30 Apr 1777 Braunschweig, Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Heiliges Römisches Reich - 23 Feb 1855

Marie-Sophie Germain 01 Apr 1776 Rue Saint-Denis, Paris, France - 27 Jun 1831

Leonard Gillman 08 Jan 1917 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States - 07 Apr 2009

Pierre-Simon Girard 04 Nov 1765 Caen, Calvados, France - 30 Nov 1836

James Glaisher 05 Nov 1848 Lewisham, London, England, United Kingdom - 07 Dec 1928

Andrew Gleason 04 Nov 1921 Fresno, Fresno, California, United States - 17 Oct 2008

Kurt Friedrich Gödel 28 Apr 1906 Brünn, Österreich-Ungarn - 14 Jan 1978

Roger Godement 01 Oct 1921 Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France - 21 Jul 2016

Gaston Gohierre de Longchamps 01 Mar 1842 Alençon, Orne, France - 09 Jul 1906

Reuben Goodstein 15 Dec 1912 London, England, United Kingdom - 08 Mar 1985

Daniel Gorenstein 01 Jan 1923 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - 26 Aug 1992

Stephen Graczyk 27 May 1937 Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States - 25 Dec 2013

Hermann Günther Grassmann abt 15 Apr 1809 Stettin, Pommern, Preußen - 26 Sep 1877

Thomas Greatorex abt 05 Oct 1758 South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England - abt 18 Jul 1831

George Green 14 Jul 1793 Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, England - 31 May 1841

James (Gregorie) Gregory abt Nov 1638 Drumoak Parrish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - abt Oct 1675

Alexander Grothendieck 28 Mar 1928 Berlin, Prussia, Germany - 13 Nov 2014

Richard Guy 30 Sep 1916 Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom - 09 Mar 2020

H

Living Hamilton

Richard Hamming 11 Feb 1915 Chicago, Illinois, USA - 07 Jan 1998

Godfrey Hardy 07 Feb 1877 Cranleigh, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 01 Dec 1947

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, Silesia, Prussia, Germany - 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

Archibald Henderson 17 Jul 1877 Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States - 06 Dec 1963

David Hilbert 23 Jan 1862 Königsberg, Preußen - 14 Feb 1943

Charles Hinton abt 1853 Bartholomew Square, London, England - 30 Apr 1907

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

Christiaan Huygens 14 Apr 1629 's-Gravenhage, Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden - 08 Jul 1695

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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

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

László Kóczy 1970s 55277

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

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

Joseph Lagrange abt 25 Jan 1736 Sardegna, Regno di Sardegna - abt 10 Apr 1813

Horace Lamb 27 Nov 1849 Stockport, Cheshire, England - 04 Dec 1934

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

Adrien Legendre 18 Sep 1752 Paris, Île-de-France, France - 09 Jan 1833

Living Lehrer

Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaître 17 Jul 1894 Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgique

John Lennox 1940s

Gabrielle Émilie (le Tonnelier de Breteuil) du Châtelet 17 Dec 1706 Paris, Île-de-France, France - 10 Sep 1749

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

Marius Lie 17 Dec 1842 Nordfjordeid, Selje, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway - 18 Feb 1899

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

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

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

Richard McCord 04 Nov 1930 Bethesda, Greene, Tennessee, United States - 20 Nov 2015

Dorothy Estheryne (McFadden) Hoover 01 Jul 1918 Hope, Hempstead, Arkansas, USA - 07 Feb 2000

Charles Megibben 1930s - 2010s

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

Albert (Mitchell) Boaz 27 Nov 1929 Hallsboro, Columbus, North Carolina, United States - 13 Sep 2014

Abraham (Moivre) de Moivre 26 May 1667 Vitry-le-François, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France - 27 Nov 1754

Karl Mollweide 03 Feb 1774 Wolfenbüttel, Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig, Germany - 10 Mar 1825

Harold Morse 24 Mar 1892 Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, United States - 22 Jun 1977

Henry Moseley 09 Jul 1801 England - 20 Jan 1872

N

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

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