LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Niels Henrik Abel	Mathematician	5-Aug-1802	6-Apr-1829	Studied elliptics and hyperelliptics
Maria Gaetana Agnesi	Mathematician	16-May-1718	9-Jan-1799	Instituzioni Analitiche
Archimedes	Mathematician	c. 290 BC	211 BC	Greatest of the ancient mathematicians
Charles Babbage	Mathematician	26-Dec-1791	18-Oct-1871	Inventor of the Difference Engine
Thomas Bayes	Mathematician	1701	7-Apr-1761	Bayes' theorem
Daniel Bernoulli	Mathematician	8-Feb-1700	27-Mar-1782	Fluid dynamics
Johann Bernoulli	Mathematician	27-Jul-1667	1-Jan-1748	L'Hôpital's rule
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel	Astronomer	22-Jul-1784	17-Mar-1846	Pioneer in precision astronomy
George David Birkhoff	Mathematician	21-Mar-1884	12-Nov-1944	Modern theory of dynamical systems
Boethius	Philosopher	c. 470 AD	524 AD	Consolation of Philosophy
George Boole	Mathematician	2-Nov-1815	8-Dec-1864	Inventor of Boolean Algebra
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich	Astronomer	18-May-1711	13-Feb-1787	Theoria philosophiae naturalis
Pierre Bouguer	Mathematician	16-Feb-1698	15-Aug-1758	French photometrist
Nathaniel Bowditch	Astronomer	26-Mar-1773	17-Mar-1838	American Practical Navigator
Ira S. Bowen	Astronomer	21-Dec-1898	6-Feb-1973	Debunked nebulium
Ernest W. Brown	Astronomer	29-Nov-1866	22-Jul-1938	Tables of the Motion of the Moon
Georg Cantor	Mathematician	3-Mar-1845	6-Jan-1918	Founder of set theory
Girolamo Cardano	Doctor	24-Sep-1501	21-Sep-1576	De Subtilitate
Lazare Carnot	Mathematician	13-May-1753	22-Aug-1823	Organizer for Victory
Lewis Carroll	Author	27-Jan-1832	14-Jan-1898	Alice in Wonderland
Augustin-Louis Cauchy	Mathematician	21-Aug-1789	23-May-1857	Infinitesimals, Theory of substitution groups
Marquis de Condorcet	Philosopher	17-Sep-1743	29-Mar-1794	French Enlightenment philosopher
John Conway	Mathematician	26-Dec-1937		Game of Life
Nicolaus Copernicus	Astronomer	19-Feb-1473	24-May-1543	Heliocentrist, De revolutionibus
Allan M. Cormack	Physicist	23-Feb-1924	7-May-1998	Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)
Thomas George Cowling	Mathematician	17-Jun-1906	16-Jun-1990	Cowling model
Haskell Curry	Mathematician	12-Sep-1900	1-Sep-1982	Combinatory Logic
Jean le Rond d'Alembert	Mathematician	17-Nov-1717	29-Oct-1783	Early work in partial differential equations
George Darwin	Astronomer	9-Jul-1845	7-Dec-1912	Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system
Augustus De Morgan	Mathematician	27-Jun-1806	18-Mar-1871	De Morgan's Laws
Willem de Sitter	Astronomer	6-May-1872	19-Nov-1934	Expanding space
Richard Dedekind	Mathematician	6-Oct-1831	12-Feb-1916	Developed theory of irrational numbers
John Dee	Mathematician	13-Jul-1527	26-Mar-1609	Mathematician and mystic
William Dembski	Religion	18-Jul-1960		Intelligent Design proponent
W. Edwards Deming	Mathematician	14-Oct-1900	20-Dec-1993	Quality Control guru
Democritus	Philosopher	c. 460 BC	c. 370 BC	Early atomic theorist
René Descartes	Philosopher	31-Mar-1596	11-Feb-1650	Discours de la Méthode
Diophantus	Mathematician	fl. 3rd c. AD	fl. 3rd c. AD	Arithmetica
Albrecht Dürer	Engraver	21-May-1471	6-Apr-1528	German Renaissance artist
Freeman Dyson	Physicist	15-Dec-1923		Theoretical physicist at Princeton
Taher Elgamal	Computer Programmer	18-Aug-1955		Inventor of the Elgamal crypto algorithm
Robert Emden	Mathematician	4-Mar-1862	8-Oct-1940	Stellar structure
Eratosthenes	Mathematician	276 BC	194 BC	First to measure the Earth
Paul Erdos	Mathematician	26-Mar-1913	20-Sep-1996	Loved only numbers
Euclid	Mathematician	c. 365 BC	c. 275 BC	The Elements
Eudoxus of Cnidus	Mathematician	c. 390 BC	c. 340 BC	Influential Greek mathematician
Leonhard Euler	Mathematician	15-Apr-1707	18-Sep-1783	The Elements of Euclid
Pierre de Fermat	Mathematician	17-Aug-1601	12-Jan-1665	Fermat's Last Theorem
Leonardo Fibonacci	Mathematician	c. 1175	1250	Liber Abacis
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	Mathematician	21-Mar-1768	16-May-1830	Fourier series
Martin Gardner	Mathematician	21-Oct-1914		Mathematical games, Scientific American
Carl Friedrich Gauss	Mathematician	30-Apr-1777	23-Feb-1855	Perhaps the greatest German mathematician
J. Willard Gibbs	Physicist	11-Feb-1839	28-Apr-1903	Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics
Kurt Gödel	Mathematician	28-Apr-1906	14-Jan-1978	Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
Carlos de Singuenza y Góngora	Mathematician	20-Aug-1645	22-Aug-1700	Mathematician, historian of the New World
Ronald Graham	Mathematician	31-Oct-1935		Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard	Mathematician	8-Dec-1865	17-Oct-1963	Prime number theorem
Sir William Rowan Hamilton	Mathematician	3-Aug-1805	2-Sep-1865	Inventor of Quaternions
G. H. Hardy	Mathematician	7-Feb-1877	1-Dec-1947	A Mathematician's Apology
Herbert A. Hauptman	Mathematician	14-Feb-1917		X-Ray diffraction studies
Hero of Alexandria	Mathematician	c. 10 AD	c. 70 AD	Metrica
John Herschel	Astronomer	7-Mar-1792	11-May-1871	Discovered many moons of Saturn
David Hilbert	Mathematician	23-Jan-1862	14-Feb-1943	Hilbert Space
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Hipparchus	Astronomer	c. 190 BC	c. 120 BC	Cataloguer of stars, trigonometrist
Christiaan Huygens	Physicist	14-Apr-1629	8-Jul-1695	Wave theory of light
Sir James Ivory	Mathematician	17-Feb-1765	21-Sep-1842	Ivory's Theorem
Karl Gustav Jacobi	Mathematician	10-Dec-1804	18-Feb-1851	Investigated elliptical functions
William Stanley Jevons	Economist	1-Sep-1835	13-Aug-1882	Theory of Political Economy
Gaston Julia	Mathematician	3-Feb-1893	19-Mar-1978	Creator of the Julia Sets
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich	Mathematician	19-Jan-1912	7-Apr-1986	Linear programming
Theodore von Kármán	Mathematician	11-May-1881	7-May-1963	Kármán vortices
Johannes Kepler	Astronomer	27-Dec-1571	15-Nov-1630	Laws of Planetary Motion
Roy Kerr	Mathematician	16-May-1934		Rotating black holes
Omar Khayyam	Mathematician	18-May-1048	4-Dec-1131	Rubaiyat
Tom Kibble	Mathematician	1932		Zurek-Kibble theory
Joseph-Louis Lagrange	Mathematician	25-Jan-1736	10-Apr-1813	Mécanique Analytique
Johann Heinrich Lambert	Mathematician	26-Aug-1728	25-Sep-1777	Pyrometrie
Jonathan Homer Lane	Astronomer	9-Aug-1819	3-May-1880	Gravitational equilibrium of the Sun
Pierre-Simon Laplace	Mathematician	23-Mar-1749	5-Mar-1827	Traité du Mécanique Céleste
Adrien-Marie Legendre	Mathematician	18-Sep-1752	10-Jan-1833	Traité des Fonctions Elliptiques
Gottfried Leibniz	Mathematician	1-Jul-1646	14-Nov-1716	Co-Inventor of calculus
Tullio Levi-Civita	Mathematician	29-Mar-1873	29-Dec-1941	Explored tensor calculus and PDE's
Edward Lorenz	Scientist	23-May-1917	16-Apr-2008	Chaos theory
Ada Lovelace	Mathematician	10-Dec-1815	27-Nov-1852	Programmed the (theoretical) difference engine
Jan Lukasiewicz	Mathematician	21-Dec-1878	13-Feb-1956	Invented Reverse Polish Notation
Szolem Mandelbrojt	Mathematician	1899	1983	French Mathematician
Benoit Mandelbrot	Mathematician	20-Nov-1924		Fractal mathematician
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis	Astronomer	28-Sep-1698	27-Jul-1759	Sur la figure de la terre
Kurt Mendelssohn	Mathematician	7-Jan-1906	18-Sep-1980	Cryogenics and pyramids
Marin Mersenne	Mathematician	8-Sep-1588	1-Sep-1648	L'Harmonie universelle
E. Arthur Milne	Mathematician	14-Feb-1896	21-Sep-1950	Kinematic relativity
Hermann Minkowski	Mathematician	22-Jun-1864	12-Jan-1909	Minkowski space
Leon Mirsky	Mathematician	19-Dec-1918	1-Dec-1983	Transversal Theory
Keith Moffatt	Mathematician	12-Apr-1935		Fluid dynamics
Abraham de Moivre	Mathematician	26-May-1667	27-Nov-1754	Doctrine of Chances
Charlotte E. Moore	Astronomer	24-Sep-1898	3-Mar-1990	Technetium in the Sun
John Nash	Mathematician	13-Jun-1928		Nutball math genius
Isaac Newton	Physicist	4-Jan-1643	31-Mar-1727	Father of modern physics
Jean Nicholas Nicollet	Explorer	24-Jul-1786	11-Sep-1843	Surveyor of the Mississippi basin
Øystein Ore	Mathematician	7-Oct-1899	13-Aug-1968	Ring theorist
William Oughtred	Mathematician	5-Mar-1574	30-Jun-1660	Inventor of the slide rule
Drazen Pantic	Activist	1956		Micromedia activist
Seymour Papert	Computer Programmer	1-Mar-1928		Programming language LOGO
Blaise Pascal	Mathematician	19-Jun-1623	19-Aug-1662	French thinker and mathematician
George Peacock	Mathematician	9-Apr-1791	8-Nov-1858	Treatise on Algebra
Giuseppe Peano	Mathematician	27-Aug-1858	20-Apr-1932	Infinitesimal calculus
Benjamin Peirce	Mathematician	4-Apr-1809	10-Jun-1880	Idempotent and nilpotent
Roger Penrose	Mathematician	8-Aug-1931		Cosmologist and theoretical physicist
Grigori Perelman	Mathematician	13-Jun-1966		Proved the Poincaré conjecture
Clifford A. Pickover	Mathematician	c. 1956		Mathematician and prolific author
John Playfair	Mathematician	10-Mar-1748	20-Jul-1819	Huttonian Theory of the Earth
Julius Plücker	Mathematician	16-Jul-1801	22-May-1868	Analytical geometry
Henri Poincaré	Mathematician	29-Apr-1854	17-Jul-1912	Poincaré Conjecture
Siméon-Denis Poisson	Mathematician	21-Jun-1781	25-Apr-1840	Poisson distribution
Joseph Proudman	Mathematician	30-Dec-1888	26-Jun-1975	Tidal currents
Ptolemy	Astronomer	c. 87 AD	c. 150 AD	Egyptian geographer and astronomer
Hilary Putnam	Philosopher	31-Jul-1926		Philosophy of Mind
Pythagoras	Mathematician	c. 580 BC	c. 500 BC	Pythagorean Theorem
Martin Rees	Astronomer	23-Jun-1942		President of the Royal Society
Eric Reissner	Mathematician	5-Jan-1913	1-Nov-1996	Reissner shear-deformation plate theory
Bernhard Riemann	Mathematician	17-Sep-1826	20-Jul-1866	Topologist, also Riemann Hypothesis
David Rittenhouse	Astronomer	8-Apr-1732	26-Jun-1796	Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman
Ron Rivest	Computer Programmer	1947		The R in RSA
Gilles Personne de Roberval	Mathematician	8-Aug-1602	27-Oct-1675	Geometry of curves
Erno Rubik	Inventor	13-Jul-1944		Rubik's Cube
Rudy Rucker	Novelist	22-Mar-1946		Author of Wetware series
Reinhard Selten	Economist	5-Oct-1930		Game theory
Adi Shamir	Mathematician	1952		The S in RSA
Claude Shannon	Scientist	30-Apr-1916	24-Feb-2001	Pioneer in information theory
Waclaw Sierpinski	Mathematician	14-Mar-1882	21-Oct-1969	Sierpinski's gasket
James Simons	Mathematician	c. 1938		Renaissance Technologies hedge fund
Simon Stevin	Mathematician	1548	1620	Founder of hydrostatics
Ian Stewart	Mathematician	c. 1945		Catastrophe theory
James Stirling	Mathematician	1692	5-Dec-1770	Methodus differentialis
George Gabriel Stokes	Physicist	13-Aug-1819	1-Feb-1903	Fluid dynamicist, optic waves
Charles François Sturm	Mathematician	29-Sep-1803	18-Dec-1855	Sturm's Theorem
James Joseph Sylvester	Mathematician	3-Sep-1814	15-Mar-1897	Studied finite analysis
Peter Guthrie Tait	Physicist	28-Apr-1831	4-Jul-1901	Treatise on Quaternions
Terence Tao	Mathematician	17-Jul-1975		Prolific math prodigy
Alfred Tarski	Mathematician	14-Jan-1902	26-Oct-1983	Tarski's indefinability theorem
Niccolò Tartaglia	Mathematician	1499	13-Dec-1557	Inaugurated science of Ballistics
Brook Taylor	Mathematician	18-Aug-1685	29-Dec-1731	Calculus of Finite Differences
Evangelista Torricelli	Mathematician	15-Oct-1608	25-Oct-1647	Inventor of the barometer
John Townsend	Mathematician	7-Jun-1868	16-Feb-1957	Electron's charge
Paul Turan	Mathematician	28-Aug-1910	26-Sep-1976	Hungarian mathematician
Alan Turing	Mathematician	23-Jun-1912	7-Jun-1954	Computing pioneer
Georgy Voronoy	Mathematician	28-Apr-1868	20-Nov-1908	Voronoi diagram
John Wallis	Mathematician	23-Nov-1616	28-Oct-1703	Arithmetica Infinitorum
William Whiston	Religion	9-Dec-1667	22-Aug-1752	Apostolical Constitutions
Alfred North Whitehead	Mathematician	15-Feb-1861	30-Dec-1947	Metaphysical mathematician
Norbert Wiener	Mathematician	26-Nov-1894	18-Mar-1964	Cybernetics
Andrew Wiles	Mathematician	11-Apr-1953		Proved Fermat's Last Theorem
Stephen Wolfram	Mathematician	29-Aug-1959		Creator of Mathematica
Iannis Xenakis	Composer	9-May-1922	4-Feb-2001	Avant-garde composer
Robert J. Zimmer	Educator	5-Nov-1947		President, University of Chicago
Max Zorn	Mathematician	6-Jun-1906	9-Mar-1993	Zorn's Lemma

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