Mathematics
Discover the renowned mathematicians who have shaped the world of mathematics. Explore their groundbreaking theories, influential works, and captivating stories.
Katarzyna Lubnauer
Poland
PolandPolish mathematician and teacher
Edward Kofler
Switzerland
SwitzerlandPolish and Swiss mathematician
Claus Mebius
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician who established the existence of one-sided surfaces (the Mobius strip).
Armand Borel
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss mathematician.
Kristen Nygaard
Norway
NorwayNorwegian computer scientist, Turing Award winner.
Karen Uhlenbeck
USA
USAAmerican mathematician
William Timothy Gowers
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish mathematician
Alexey Krylov
Russian and Soviet shipbuilder, specialist in mechanics, mathematician
James Gregory
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish mathematician and astronomer
Konstantin Posse
Professor of Mathematics at St. Petersburg University
John Wallis
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician
Levan Gokieli
Georgian mathematician and philosopher
Norman Steenrod
USA
USAAmerican mathematician
Ilya Vekua
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian mathematician
John Neumann
USA
USAAn American mathematician who made an invaluable contribution to the development of the first computers.
Izrail Gelfand
USA
USAMathematician, biologist, teacher and organizer of mathematics education
Thomas Chalmers
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish mathematician, political economist and leader of the Free Church of Scotland
Charles Babbage
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish polymath, mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer
Edouard Goursat
France
FranceFrench mathematician, member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Pierre Deligne
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian mathematician
Kurt Godel
Austria
AustriaAustrian logician and mathematician
Leo Breiman
USA
USAAmerican mathematician and statistician from the University of California, Berkeley, member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2001).
Marcel Berger
France
FranceFrench mathematician
Isaac Barrow
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician, physicist and theologian
Brahmagupta
India
IndiaIndian mathematician and astronomer
Lennart Carleson
Sweden
SwedenSwedish mathematician
Konstantin Caratheodory
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician of Greek nationality.
Sediq Afghan
Afghanistan
AfghanistanAfghan mathematician and philosopher
Gregory Haytin
Argentina
ArgentinaArgentine-American mathematician and computer scientist
Alan Turing
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician who created modern computers
Francois Viet
France
FranceFrench mathematician who laid the foundation for algebra as the science of transforming expressions, solving equations in general form, creator of literal calculus
Petro Cossali
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician.
Hypsicles
Greece
GreeceAncient Greek mathematician and astronomer
Endre Szemeredi
Hungary
HungaryHungarian mathematician
William Hamilton
Ireland
IrelandIrish mathematician, physicist and mechanic.
Pier Ferhulst
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian mathematician
Vinay Deolalikar
India
IndiaIndian computer scientist and researcher
Louis Mordell
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician.
Al-Abbas Al-Jawhari
Mathematician and astronomer
Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician
William Sealy Gosset
Great Britain
Great BritainStatistician
Gippocrates Hiosskiy
Greece
GreeceAncient Greek mathematician and astronomer
Jean Leray
France
FranceFrench mathematician
Andrew Gleason
USA
USAAmerican mathematician
Jean-Robert Argand
France
FranceNon-professional mathematician.
Vanik Zaharyan
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian scientist-mathematician
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician
Morris Kline
USA
USAProfessor of mathematics, teacher of history, philosophy and mathematics, prominent popularizer of mathematics.
Alexander Grothendieck
France
FranceBrilliant French mathematician
Hermann Weyl
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician