Mathematics
Discover the renowned mathematicians who have shaped the world of mathematics. Explore their groundbreaking theories, influential works, and captivating stories.
Alexander Markus
Israel
IsraelMoldovan and Israeli mathematician.
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
France
FranceFrench mathematician, mechanic and astronomer.
Jozef Wronski
Poland
PolandPolish mathematician and mystic philosopher.
Radhanath Sikdar
India
IndiaBengali Indian mathematician
Michael Gromov
France
FranceSoviet and French mathematician, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Jean Dieudonne
France
FranceFrench mathematician, one of the founders of the Bourbaki group
Salomon Bochner
USA
USAAmerican mathematician
Kunihiko Kodaira
Japan
JapanJapanese mathematician
Yan Kovalevsky
Poland
PolandPolish cryptographer, mathematician and linguist
Haskell Brooks Curry
USA
USAAmerican mathematician and logician.
Gabriel Cramer
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss mathematician
Henri Cartan
France
FranceFrench mathematician
Joseph Louis Lagrange
France
FranceFrench mathematician and mechanic, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Hermann Weyl
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician
Gaspard Monge
France
FranceFrench geometer, founder of drawing geometry
Norbert Wiener
USA
USAAmerican scientist, outstanding mathematician and philosopher,
Lazare Carnot
France
FranceFrench statesman and military leader, engineer and scientist
Evariste Galois
France
FranceFrench mathematician
Florimond Beaune
France
FranceFrench mathematician.
Adolf Ketle
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, sociologist.
Johannes Gmunden
Austria
AustriaAustrian mathematician and astronomer
Alan Turing
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician who created modern computers
Gustav Gaspar Koriolis
France
FranceA French mechanical physicist whose work played a major role in the creation of the theory of machine dynamics.
Viktor Matrosov
Russia
RussiaRussian scientist, mathematician, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2000), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2008).
Pierre Fermat
France
FranceFrench mathematician, one of the creators of analytical geometry and number theory (Fermat's theorem)
Theodor Kaluza
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist
Jules Henri Poincare
France
FranceFrench mathematician, astronomer, philosopher
Niels Henrik Abel
Norway
NorwayNorwegian mathematician
Gosta Mittag-Leffler
Sweden
SwedenSwedish mathematician
Paul Cohen
USA
USAAmerican mathematician, professor at Stanford University.
Eduard Heine
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician
Sergey Ablameiko
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian mathematician
Witold Hurewicz
Poland
PolandPolish and American mathematician.
Simon Stevin
Belgium
BelgiumFlemish universal mathematician, engineer.
Laurent Lafforgue
France
FranceFrench mathematician, professor and scientist
Charles Babbage
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish polymath, mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi
India
IndiaIndian mathematician, statistician, philologist, historian
Cahit Arf
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish mathematician
George David Birkhoff
USA
USAAmerican mathematician
John Neumann
USA
USAAn American mathematician who made an invaluable contribution to the development of the first computers.
Leo Breiman
USA
USAAmerican mathematician and statistician from the University of California, Berkeley, member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2001).
Richard Mises
USA
USAMathematician and mechanic of Austrian origin
Rafael Bombelli
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician, hydraulic engineer.
Ludvig Faddeev
Russia
RussiaAcademician-Secretary of the Department of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor
Enrico Bombieri
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician.
Wilgelm Killing
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician
George Dantzig
USA
USAAmerican mathematician
Christian von Wolff
Germany
GermanyGerman encyclopedist, philosopher, lawyer and mathematician
Eugenio Beltrami
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician
Johann Bartels
Germany
GermanyGerman, later Russian mathematician and educator