Mathematics
Discover the renowned mathematicians who have shaped the world of mathematics. Explore their groundbreaking theories, influential works, and captivating stories.

Yan Kovalevsky
Poland
PolandPolish cryptographer, mathematician and linguist

Roger Cotes
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician and philosopher

John Dee
Great Britain
Great BritainAstrologer, philosopher, mathematician, cartographer, optician, alchemist

Izrail Gelfand
USA
USAMathematician, biologist, teacher and organizer of mathematics education

Ole-Johan Dahl
Norway
NorwayNorwegian scientist in the field of computer systems theory, Turing Award winner.

Gerolamo Cardano
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician, engineer, philosopher, physician and astrologer, inventor of the cardan shaft

Tullio Levi-Chivita
Italy
ItalyA famous Italian mathematician of Jewish origin.

Johannes Gmunden
Austria
AustriaAustrian mathematician and astronomer

David Kazhdan
Israel
IsraelIsraeli and American mathematician

Luigi Cremona
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician.

Christian von Wolff
Germany
GermanyGerman encyclopedist, philosopher, lawyer and mathematician

William Burnside
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician and algebraist.

Pierre-Henri Hugonio
France
FranceFrench mathematician.

John Derbyshire
USA
USAAmerican mathematician and essayist

William Timothy Gowers
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish mathematician

Richard Courant
USA
USAGerman and American mathematician

Mihael Shtifel
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician

Marcel Berger
France
FranceFrench mathematician

Marin Mersenne
France
FranceFrench mathematician, physicist, philosopher and theologian

Kazimir Kuratovskiy
Poland
PolandPolish mathematician.

Al-Abbas Al-Jawhari
Mathematician and astronomer

Paul Cohen
USA
USAAmerican mathematician, professor at Stanford University.

Johann Bartels
Germany
GermanyGerman, later Russian mathematician and educator

Ludwig Bieberbach
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician.

Eugene-Charles Catalan
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian mathematician.

Joseph Louis Lagrange
France
FranceFrench mathematician and mechanic, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Theodor Kaluza
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist

Ogust Lui Koshi
France
FranceFrench mathematician and mechanic

Edward Kasner
USA
USAAmerican mathematician, professor

Giovanni Campano
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician

Robert John Aumann
USA
USAIsraeli-American mathematician, member of the US National Academy of Sciences

Louis Mordell
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician.

Nurlan Temirgaliev
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanKazakh mathematician

Michel Chales
France
FranceFrench geometer and historian of mathematics

Boris Kit
USA
USAAstronaut, mathematician, physicist, chemist, PhD in philosophy

Samuel Karlin
USA
USAAmerican mathematician

Stephen Cole Kleene
USA
USAAmerican mathematician and logician.

Abu Mashar Al-Balkhi
Iran
IranPersian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
France
FranceFrench mathematician, astronomer and surveyor

Paul Erdesh
Hungary
HungaryMathematician

William Feller
USA
USACroatian-American mathematician

Louis Poinsot
France
FranceFrench mathematician and mechanic, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.

Alexander Vandermond
France
FranceFrench musician and mathematician

Leontiy Magnickiy
Russia
RussiaMathematician and teacher, author of the first Russian printed textbook on arithmetic

Vinchetso Viviany
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician and physicist, member of the Florentine Academy of Sciences, student of Galileo Galilei

Edmund Landau
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician

Arend Heyting
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch mathematician and logician

Martin Gardner
USA
USAAmerican mathematician and science writer

Srinivasa Ramanujan
India
IndiaIndian mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

Garrett Birkhoff
USA
USAAmerican mathematician