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Mathematicians

Abraham de Moivre

French mathematician

Adrien-Marie Legendre

French mathematician (1752–1833)

Aleksandr Lyapunov

Russian mathematician

Alexander Grothendieck

French mathematician (1928–2014)

American mathematician

French mathematician (1906-1998)

British mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem

Andrey Kolmogorov

Soviet mathematician (1903–1987)

American-Hungarian physicist (1903–1992)

English mathematician (1821–1895)

Arthur Moritz Schoenflies

German mathematician

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

French mathematician (1789–1857)

Augustus De Morgan

British mathematician and logician (1806–1871)

Benoit Mandelbrot

French-American mathematician

Bernard Bolzano

Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest (1781–1848)

Bernhard Riemann

German mathematician

Bernoulli family

Swiss patrician family, notable for having produced eight mathematically gifted academics

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher

French mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist (1777–1855)

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

German mathematician

Charles Hermite

French mathematician (1822–1901)

American mathematician and founder of information theory

Constantin Carathéodory

Greek mathematician

Italian mathematician (1863–1924)

Daniel Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician and physicist

German mathematician (1862–1943)

English clergyman, mathematician, geometer and astronomer

Edward Norton Lorenz

American mathematician (1917–2008)

American statistician (born 1942)

French mathematician

Elwyn Berlekamp

American mathematician

Austrian mathematician

French mathematician (1871–1956)

German mathematician (1882–1935)

German mathematician

Évariste Galois

French mathematician

German mathematician (1849–1925)

English polymath: geographer, statistician, pioneer in eugenics (1822–1911)

François Viète

French mathematician

British mathematician

French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746–1818)

19th and 20th-century German mathematician

English mathematician, philosopher and logician

American mathematician

George E. P. Box

British statistician

Hungarian mathematician

Gerolamo Cardano

Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer

Girard Desargues

French mathematician and engineer

Italian mathematician and glottologist

Gotthold Eisenstein

German mathematician

German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

Italian mathematician

Grigori Perelman

Russian mathematician

Guillaume de l'Hôpital

French noble and mathematician (*1661 – †1704)

Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter

Canadian geometer

French mathematician

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

Henry Briggs (mathematician)

British mathematician (*1561 – †1630)

German mathematician (1885–1955)

Jacob Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician (1655–1705)

James Gregory (mathematician)

Scottish mathematician and astronomer

Hungarian mathematician

Jean Dieudonné

French mathematician

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)

Johann Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician

Johann Heinrich Lambert

Swiss polymath (1728–1777)

Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London (1667-1735)

John Edensor Littlewood

British mathematician

John Forbes Nash Jr.

American mathematician

John Horton Conway

English mathematician (1937–2020)

Scottish mathematician

John von Neumann

Mathematician and physicist

English mathematician 1616 – 1703

French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)

Joseph Liouville

French mathematician and engineer (1809–1882)

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Italian-French scientist (1736–1813)

Swiss clockmaker, maker of astronomical instruments and mathematician

Karen Uhlenbeck

American mathematician

English mathematician and biometrician

Karl Weierstrass

German mathematician

Mathematical logician and philosopher (1906–1978)

L. E. J. Brouwer

Dutch mathematician and logician

Swiss mathematician (1707–1783)

Leonid Kantorovich

Russian mathematician

Leopold Kronecker

German mathematician (1823–1891)

American mathematician

Madhava of Sangamagrama

Indian mathematician and astronomer (c.1340-c.1425)

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Italian mathematician and philanthropist

American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)

Mary Cartwright

20th-century British mathematician

Maryam Mirzakhani

21st-century Iranian mathematician

British mathematician

Mikhael Gromov (mathematician)

Russian-French mathematician

Niels Henrik Abel

Norwegian mathematician

Nikolai Lobachevsky

Russian mathematician

American mathematician and philosopher (1894–1964)

American mathematician

Pafnuty Chebyshev

Russian mathematician (1821–1894)

Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)

Pavel Alexandrov

Soviet mathematician (1896–1982)

Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

German mathematician (1805–1859)

Pierre de Fermat

French mathematician and lawyer

Pierre Louis Maupertuis

French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters

French mathematician

Pierre-Simon Laplace

French polymath

Radhanath Sikdar

Indian mathematician (1813–1870)

Richard Dedekind

German mathematician (1831–1916)

Richard E. Bellman

American mathematician

British mathematician

Israeli-American mathematician

Robert Langlands

Canadian mathematician

British statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, eugenicist and high school teacher

Samuel Eilenberg

Polish mathematician (1913-1998) –

Saunders Mac Lane

American mathematician

Japanese mathematician

French American mathematician

Siméon Denis Poisson

French mathematician and physicist

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indian mathematician (1887–1920)

Stanisław Ulam

Polish-American mathematician

Polish mathematician (1892–1945)

Australian-American mathematician

British statistician (c. 1701 – 1761)

Tullio Levi-Civita

Italian mathematician (1873–1941)

William Jones (mathematician)

Welsh mathematician who named 'pi' (1675–1749)

William Oughtred

English mathematician (1574–1660)

William Playfair

British polymath

William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician and astronomer