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MATHEMATICIANS

Abbott, Edwin Abbott (1838–1926)
Abel, Niels Henrik (1802–1829)
Abu'l Wafa al-Buzjani (AD 940–998)
Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (17181799)
Ahrens, Wilhelm Ernst Martin Georg (1872–1927)
Aiken, Howard (1900–1973)
Alcuin (735–804)
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' (1717–1783)
Alhazen (Abu Ali al Hassan ibn al Haitham) (c. 965–c. 1040)
Al-Khowarizmi (c. 780–850)
Apollonius of Perge (c. 262–c. 190 BC)
Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287–212 BC)
Archytas of Tarentum (c. 428–c. 350 BC)
Aristotle of Stagira (384–322 BC)
Aryabhata the Elder (AD 476–c. 550)
Atiyah, Michael Francis (1929–2019)

Babbage, Charles (1791–1871)
Bachet de Méziriac, Claude-Gaspar (1581–1638)
Ball, Walter Rouse (1850–1925)
Banach, Stefan (1892–1945)
Barbaro, Daniele (1513–1570)
Barlow, Peter (1776–1862)
Barrow, Isaac (1630–1677)
Bayes, Thomas (1702–1761)
Bell, Eric Temple (1883–1960)
Bernoulli family
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784–1846)
Birkhoff, George David (1884–1944)
Bólyai, János (1802–1860)
Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769–1821)
Boole (Stott), Alicia (1860–1940)
Boole, George (1815–1864)
Borel, Emile (1871–1956)
Bourbaki, Nicholas
Brahmagupta (c. AD 598–c. 665)
Briggs, Henry (1561–1630)
Bronowski, Jacob (1908–1974)
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (1881–1966)
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707–1788)
Byron, (Augusta) Ada (1815–1852)

Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp (1845–1918)
Cardano, Girolamo (1501–1570)
Carroll, Lewis (1832–1898)
Cauchy, Augustin Louis, Baron (1789–1857)
Cayley, Arthur (1821–1895)
Ceva, Giovanni (1647–1734)
Chaitin, Gregory (1947–)
Church, Alonzo (1903–1995)
Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713–1765)
Clifford, William Kingdon (1845–1879)
Conway, John Horton (1937–2020)
Coxeter, Harold Scott MacDonald (1907–2003)

de Moivre, Abraham (1667–1754)
de Morgan, Augustus (1806–1871)
Dedekind, (Julius Wilhelm) Richard (1831–1916)
Dee, John (1527–1609)
Desargues, Girard (1591–1661)
Descartes, René (1596–1650)
Dewdney, Alexander Keewatin (1941–)
Diophantus of Alexandria (AD c. 200–c. 284)
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902–1984)
Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune (1805–1859)
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carroll)
Dudeney, Henry Ernest (1857–1930)
Dunsany, Edward Plunkett (Lord) (1878–1957)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471–1528)

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276–c. 195 BC)
Erdös, Paul (1913–1996)
Escher, M(aurits) C(ornelius) (1898–1972)
Euclid of Alexandria (c. 330–270 BC)
Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 400–c. 347 BC)
Euler, Leonhard (1707–1783)

Fadiman, Cliftom (1904–1999)
Fermat, Pierre de (1601–1665)
Fibonacci, Leonardo (c. 1175–1250)
Fourier, (Jean Baptiste) Joseph, Baron (1768–1830)
Fredholm, Erik Ivar (1866–1927)
Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob (1848–1925)
Frénicle de Bessy, Bernard (1602–1675)
Friedmann, Alexander Alexandrovich (1888–1925)

Galileo (Galilei, Galileo) (1564–1642)
Galois, Évariste (1811–1832)
Galton, Francis (1822–1911)
Gamow, George (1904–1968)
Gardner, Martin (1914–2010)
Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777–1855)
Germain, Sophie (1776–1831)
Gödel, Kurt (1906–1978)
Golomb, Solomon W. (1932–2016)
Graham, Ronald L. (1932–2020)
Green, George (1793–1841)
Guy, Richard Kenneth (1916–2020)

Hamilton, William Rowan (1805–1865)
Hardy, G(odfrey) H(arold) (1877–1947)
Hausdorff, Felix (1868–1942)
Hein, Piet (1905–1996)
Hermite, Charles (1822–1901)
Hero of Alexandria (1st century AD)
Hilbert, David (1862–1943)
Hinton, Charles Howard (1853–1907)
Hippias of Elis (fl. 5th century BC)
Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1945–)
Hogben, Lancelot Thomas (1895–1975)
Hôpital, Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l' (1661–1704)
Hunter, J(ames) A(lston) H(ope)
Huygens, Christiaan (1629–1695)
Hypatia of Alexandria (c. AD 370–417)

Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob (1804–1851)
Jordan, (Marie-Ennemond) Camille (1838–1922)

Kasner, Edward (1876–1955)
Kepler, Johannes (1571–1630)
Kirkman, Thomas Penyngton (1806–1895)
Klein, Christian Felix (1849–1925)
Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaievich (1903–1987)
Kronecker, Leopold (1823–1891)

Lagrange, Joseph Louis de (1736–1813)
Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1728–1777)
Laplace, Pierre Simon de (1749–1827)
Lebesgue, Henri Léon (1875–1941)
Legendre, Adrien Marie (1752–1833)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646–1716)
Leurechon, Jean (c.1591–1670)
Lie, Marius Sophus (1842–1899)
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich (1793–1856)
Loyd, Sam (1841–1911)
Lucas, (Francois) Edouard (Anatole) (1842–1891)

Maclaurin, Colin (1698–1746)
MacMahon, Percy Alexander (1854–1929)
Mandelbrot, Benoit B. (1924–2010)
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698–1759)
mathematical lifespan
Menaechmus (c. 380–c. 320 BC)
Mersenne, Marin (1588–1648)
Minkowski, Hermann (1864–1909)
Mittag-Leffler, (Magnus) Gösta (1846–1927)
Moivre, Abraham de (1667–1754)
Monge, Gaspard (1746–1818)
Montucla, Jean Etienne (1725–1799)
Mydorge, Claude (1585–1647)

Napier, John (1550–1617)
Nash, John Forbes Jr. (1928–2015)
Newton, Isaac (1642–1727)
Noether, Emmy (Amalie) (1882–1935)

Omar Khayyaam (1048–1122)
Oresme, Nicole (c. 13201382)
Oughtred, William (1575–1660)
Ozanam, Jacques (1640–1717)

Pacioli, Luca (1445–1517)
Pappus of Alexandria (lived c. AD 300)
Pascal, Blaise (1623–1662)
Peano, Guiseppe (1858–1932)
Pearson, Keith (1857–1936)
Penrose, Roger (1931–)
Perelman, Yakov Isidorovitch (1882–1942)
Perigal, Henry (1801–1898)
Plato (428–348 BC)
Poincare, (Jules) Henri (1854–1912)
Poinsot, Louis (1777–1859)
Poisson, Siméon Denis (1781–1840)
Poncelet, Jean Victor (1788–1867)
Pythagoras of Samos (c. 569–c. 500 BC)

Ramanujan, Srinivasa Aaiyangar (1887–1920)
Recorde, Robert (c. 1510–1558)
Riemann, (Georg Friedrich) Bernhard (1826–1866)
Robinson, Abraham (1918–1974)
Rucker, Rudy (Rudolf von Bitter) (1946–)
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872–1970)

Saccheri, Giovanni Girolamo (1667–1733)
Schläfli, Ludwig (1814–1895)
Schwarzschild, Karl (1873–1916)
Shannon, Claude Elwood (1916–2001)
Sierpinski, Waclaw Franciszek (1882–1969)
Smullyan, Raymond (1919–2017)
Stanhope, Earl of
Steiner, Jakob (1796–1863)
Steinhaus, Hugo Dyonizy (1887–1972)
Stevinus, Simon (1548–1620)
Stokes, George Gabriel (1819–1903)
Sylvester, James Joseph (1814–1897)

Tait, Peter Guthrie (1831–1901)
Tarry, Gaston (1843–1913)
Tarski, Alfred (1902–1983)
Tartaglia, Niccolò Fontana (1499–1557)
Thales of Miletus (c. 624–545 BC)
Thomson, D'Arcy Wentworth (1860–1948)
Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo (1397–1482)
Turing, Alan Mathison (1912–1954)

Ulam, Stanislaw Marcin (1909–1984)

Veblen, Oswald (1880–1960)
Von Neumann, John (1903–1957)

Wallis, John (1616–1703)
Weierstrass, Karl Wilhelm Theodor (1815–1897)
Wessel, Caspar (1745–1818)
Weyl, Hermann Klaus Hugo (1885–1955)
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861–1947)
Wiener, Norbert (1894–1964)
Wiles, Andrew (1953–)

Zöllner, Johann Karl Friedrich (1834–1882)