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About: Tatjana Afanassjewa
1876-1964
Nationality: Russian Empire (Ukraine), The Netherlands
Mathematical Subjects: statistical mechanics/thermodynamics
About: Maria Agnesi
1718-1799
Nationality: Habsburg Empire (Italy)
Mathematical Subjects: differential calculus
About: Archimedes
287-212 BCE
Nationality: Syracuse (Italy)
Mathematical Subjects: geometry
About: Bernard Bolzano
1781-1848
Nationality: Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Mathematical Subjects: calculus
About: George Boole
1815-1864
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: logic
About: Émile Borel
1871-1956
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: measure of sets of points
About: Nathaniel Bowditch
1773-1838
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: navigation, astronomy
About: Luitzen Brouwer
1881-1966
Nationality: The Netherlands
Mathematical Subjects: topology
About: Constantin Carathéodory
1873-1950
Nationality: Germany
Mathematical Subjects: calculus of variations and others
About: Elie Cartan
1869-1951
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: continuous groups, Lie algebras, differential equations and geometry
About: Émilie du Châtelet
1706-1749
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: calculus, also physics
About: Émilie du Châtelet
1706-1749
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: calculus, also physics
About: André-Louis Cholesky
1875-1918
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: geodesic measurements
About: Hernando de Los Ríos Coronel
1559-1621?
Nationality: Spain, The Philippines
Mathematical Subjects: navigational mathematics
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About: Augustus de Morgan
1806-1871
Nationality: India, United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: multiple
About: Rene Descartes
1596-1650
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: algebra, geometry
About: Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
1805-1859
Nationality: France/Germany
Mathematical Subjects: number theory, analysis
About: Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
1832-1898
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: geometry, others
About: Eratosthenes
276-194 BCE
Nationality: Cyrene (Libya), Egypt
Mathematical Subjects: prime numbers, earth circumference
About: Leonhard Euler
1707-1783
Nationality: Switzlerand
Mathematical Subjects: multiple, including geometry, calculus, number theory
About: Leonhard Euler
1707-1783
Nationality: Switzlerand
Mathematical Subjects: multiple, including geometry, calculus, number theory
About: Pierre de Fermat
1601-1665
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem
About: Leonardo Fibonacci
1170-1250
Nationality: Pisa (Italy)
Mathematical Subjects: Arabic numerals, sequences
About: Leonardo Fibonacci
1170-1250
Nationality: Pisa (Italy)
Mathematical Subjects: Arabic numerals, sequences
About: John Fields
1863-1932
Nationality: Canada
Mathematical Subjects: creator of Fields medal
About: Abraham A. Fraenkel
1891-1965
Nationality: Germany, Israel
Mathematical Subjects: axiomatic set theory
About Sophie Germain
1776-1831
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: number theory
About: Hermann Grassman
1809-1877
Nationality: Prussia/Germany (Poland)
Mathematical Subjects: vector calculus
About: Marcel Grossmann
1878-1936
Nationality: Hungary, Switzerland
Mathematical Subjects: general relativity
About: George Green
1793-1841
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: potential theory
About: Giovanni Battista Guccia
1855-1914
Nationality: Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Italy)
Mathematical Subjects: algebraic geometry
About: Jacques Hadamard
1868-1963
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: prime number theorem
About: Felix Hausdorff
1868-1942
Nationality: Germany
Mathematical Subjects: topology
About: William Hopkins
1793-1866
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: Cambridge tripos examinations
About: Charles Hutton:
1737-1823
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: arithmetic
About: Felix Klein
1849-1925
Nationality: Prussia (Germany)
Mathematical Subjects: geometry
About: Sofya Kovalevskaya
1850-1891
Nationality: Russia, Sweden
Mathematical Subjects: differential equations
About: Cornelius Lanczos
1893-1974
Nationality: Hungary
Mathematical Subjects: relativity and mathematical physics
About: Pierre-Simon Laplace
1749-1827
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: analysis, probability
1646-1716
Nationality: Saxony/Hanover (Germany)
Mathematical Subjects: calculus
About: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
1646-1716
Nationality: Saxony/Hanover (Germany)
Mathematical Subjects: calculus
About: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
1646-1716
Nationality: Saxony/Hanover (Germany)
Mathematical Subjects: calculus
About: Duncan Liddel
1561-1613
Nationality: Scotland
Mathematical Subjects: multiple (also medicine, physics)
About: Ada Lovelace
1815-1852
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: analytic engine
About: Ada Lovelace
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1815-1852
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: analytic engine
About: Karl Löwner
1893-1968
Nationality: Bohemia (Czech Republic), USA
Mathematical Subjects: Bieberbach conjecture
About:Nikolai Luzin
1883-1950
Nationality: Russia/USSR
Mathematical Subjects: foundations of mathematics, measure theory and topology.
About: Gösta Mittag-Leffler
1846-1927
Nationality: Sweden
Mathematical Subjects: general theory of functions
About: Abraham de Moivre
1667-1754
Nationality: France, United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: analytic geometry, probability
About: John Napier
1550-1617
Nationality: France, Scotland
Mathematical Subjects: logarithms
About: John Napier
1550-1617
Nationality: France, Scotland
Mathematical Subjects: logarithms
About: Otto Neugebauer
1899-1990
Nationality: Austria, USA
Mathematical Subjects: history of ancient mathematics
About: Isaac Newton
1643-1727
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: calculus (also optics, gravitation)
About: Isaac Newton
1643-1727
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: calculus (also optics, gravitation)
About: Florence Nightingale
1820-1910
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: statistics, nursing
About: Emmy Noether
1882-1935
Nationality: Germany
Mathematical Subjects: abstract algebra
Emmy Noether
1882-1935
Nationality: Germany
Mathematical Subjects: abstract algebra
About: Karl Pearson
1857-1936
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: biostatistics
About: Mario Pieri
1860-1913
Nationality: Tuscany (Italy)
Mathematical Subjects: projective geometry
About: Henri Poincaré
1854-1912
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: algebraic topology
About: Pythagoras
~570-490 BCE
Nationality: Ancient Greece
Mathematical Subjects: geometry, other areas
About: Srinivasa Ramanujan
1887-1920
Nationality: India
Mathematical Subjects: analytical theory of numbers
About: Srinivasa Ramanujan
1887-1920
Nationality: India
Mathematical Subjects: analytical theory of numbers
About: Srinivasa Ramanujan
1887-1920
Nationality: India
Mathematical Subjects: analytical theory of numbers
About: Robert Recorde
1510-1558
Nationality: Wales, England
Mathematical Subjects: invented = symbol
About: Johann Regiomontanus
1436-1476
Nationality: Lower Franconia (Germany), Italy
Mathematical Subjects: trigonometry and astronomy.
About: Olinde Rodrigues
1795-1851
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: Legendre polynomials
About: Iris Runge
1888-1966
Nationality: Ger,amu
Mathematical Subjects: applied mathematics
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About: Corrado Segre
1863-1924
Nationality: Ota;u
Mathematical Subjects: algebraic geometry
About: Takakazu Shinsuke Seki
1642-1708
Nationality: Japan
Mathematical Subjects: deteriminants, Bernoulli numbers
About: Mary Somerville
1780-1872
Nationality: Scotland, Italy
Mathematical Subjects: mathematical astronomy
About: Mary Somerville
1780-1872
Nationality: Scotland, Italy
Mathematical Subjects: mathematical astronomy
About: George Gabriel Stokes
1871-1953
Nationality: Ireland, United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: hydrodynamics
About: Thales
~624-547 BCE
Nationality: Ancient Greece
Mathematical Subjects: geometry
About: Norbert Wiener
1894-1964
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: probability
About: William Whewell
1794-1866
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: history/philosophy of science
About: William Whewell
1894-1964
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: probability
About: Dorothy Wrinch
1894-1976
Nationality: Argentina, USA
Mathematical Subjects: mathematical biochemistry, protein structures
About: Li Ye
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1192-1279
Nationality: China
Mathematical Subjects: polynomial equations
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About: Oscar Zariski
1899-1986
Nationality: Russian Empire (Belarus)
Mathematical Subjects: algebraic geometry
About: Ernst Zermelo
1871-1953
Nationality: Germany
Mathematical Subjects: foundations of mathematics
About: Lars Ahlfors
1907-1996
Nationality: Finland, United States
Mathematical Subjects: complex analysis
About: Krishnaswami Alladi
1956-
Nationality: India, USA
Mathematical subjects: Number Theory
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About: Vladimir Arnold
1937-2010
Nationality: USSR (Ukraine), France
Mathematical Subjects: dynamical systems, differential equations and singularity theory
About: Lipman Bers
1914-1993
Nationality: Russian Empire (Latvia), USA
Mathematical Subjects: pseudoanalytic functions, Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups.
About: Jean Bourgain
1954-2018
Nationality: Belgium
Mathematical Subjects: mathematical analysi
About: Renato Caccioppoli
1904-1959
Nationality: Italy
Mathematical Subjects: mathematical analysis
About: Gregory Chaitin
1947-
Nationality: Argentina, USA
Mathematical subjects: algorithmic information theory and metamathematics,
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About: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
1923-2025
Nationality: France
Mathematical Subjects: general theory of relativity.
About: John Horton Conway
1937-2020
Nationality: United Kingdom, USA
Mathematical Subjects: finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory
About: Donald Coxeter
1907-2003
Nationality: United Kingdom, Canada
Mathematical Subjects: geometry
About: Florence David
1909-1993
Nationality: United Kingdom, USA
Mathematical Subjects: statistics
About: Chandler Davis
1926-2022
Nationality: Canada, USA
Mathematical subjects: algebra and operator theory
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About: Ennio De Giorgi
1928-1996
Nationality: Italy
Mathematical Subjects: partial differential equations
About: Freeman Dyson
1923-2020
Nationality: United Kingdom, United States
Mathematical Subjects: quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics and astronomy
About: Leon Ehrenpreis
1930-2010
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: linear differential operators
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About: Paul Erdős
1913-1996
Nationality: Hungary
Mathematical Subjects: discrete math
About: Gerhard Gentzen
1909-1945
Nationality: Germany
Mathematical Subjects: logic
About: Kurt Gödel
1906-1978
Nationality: Hungary
Mathematical Subjects: axiomatic systems
About: Kurt Gödel
1906-1978
Nationality: Hungary
Mathematical Subjects: axiomatic systems
About: Solomon Golomb
1932-2016
Nationality: USA
Mathematical subjects: mathematical games
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About: Karl Gustafson
1935-
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: antieigenvalue theory
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About: Leon Henkin
1921-2006
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: logic
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About: Theodore Hill
1943-
Nationality: China
Mathematical Subjects: USA
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About: Katherine Johnson
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1918-2020
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: space flight (known for movie Hidden Figures)
About: Neal Koblitz
1948-
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: hyperelliptic curve cryptography and eliptic curve cryptography
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About: Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
1903-1987
Nationality: Russia/USSR
Mathematical Subjects: probability theory
About: Peter Lax
1926-2025
Nationality: Hungary, USA
Mathematical Subjects: scattering theory
About: E. L. Lehmann
1917-2009
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: nonparametric hypothesis testing
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About: László Lovász
1948-
Nationality: Hungary
Mathematical Subjects: combinatorics
About: Benoît Mandelbrot
1924-2010
Nationality: Poland, USA
Mathematical Subjects: fractal geometry
About: Benoit Mandelbrot
1924-2010
Nationality: Poland, USA
Mathematical Subjects: fractal geometry
About: Gregori Margulis
1946
Nationality: USSR/Russia
Mathematical Subjects: lattics in Lie Groups
About: Vladimir Maz'ya
1937-
Nationality: Russia
Mathematical Subjects: mathematical analysis and partial differential equations.
About: Josephine Janina Mehlberg
1905–1969
Nationality: Poland / USA
Mathematical subjects: probability
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About: Nikita Moiseyev
1917-2000
Nationality: USSR, Russia
Mathematical subjects: applied mathematics
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About: Frederick Mosteller
1916-2006
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: statistics
About: J.E. Moyal
1910-1998
Nationality: Australia
Mathematical Subjects: mathematical physics
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About: Takeo Nakasawa
1913-1946
Nationality: Japan
Mathematical Subjects: matroid theory.
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About: John Nash
1928-2015
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: game theory
About: John Allen Paulos
1945-
About: Roger Penrose
1931-
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: pure mathematics (also cosmology)
About: Carl Adam Petri
1926-2010
Nationality: Germany
Mathematical Subjects: parallel and distributed computing
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About: Abraham Robinson
1918-1974
Nationality: Poland/Germany, USA
Mathematical Subjects: non-standard analysis
About: Gian-Carlo Rota
1932-1999
Nationality: Italy, USA
Mathematical Subjects: combinatorics, philosophy
About: Walter Rudin
1921*2010
Nationality: Austria, USA
Mathematical Subjects: complex and harmonic analysis
About: Arto Salomaa
1934-2025
Nationality: Finland
Mathematical subjects: formal languages and automata theory.
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About: Kurt Schütte
1909-1998
Nationality: Germany
Mathematical subjects: proof theory and ordinal analysis
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About: Elizabeth L. Scott
1917-1988
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: statistics
About: Raymond Smullyan
1919-2017
Nationality: USA
Mathematical Subjects: recreational mathematics (esp. puzzle books)
About: Alan Turing
1912-1954
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: computer science foundations
About: Alan Turing
1912-1954
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: computer science foundations
About: Alan Turing
1912-1954
Nationality: United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: computer science foundations
About: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
1903-1996
Nationality: The Netherlands
Mathematical Subjects: modern algebra, topology
About: Vito Volterra
1916-2006
Nationality: Papal States (Italy)
Mathematical Subjects: partial differential equations
About: Vito Volterra
1916-2006
Nationality: Papal States (Italy)
Mathematical Subjects: partial differential equations
About: John Von Neumann
1903-1957
Nationality: Hungary
Mathematical Subjects:quantum mechanics, game theory
About: Yuan Wang
1930-2021
Nationality: China
Mathematical Subjects: Goldbach conjecture
About: Thomas Ward
1963-
Nationality: Zambia, United Kingdom
Mathematical Subjects: number theory
Note: Worked at Ohio State
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About: Hassler Whitney
1907-1989
Nationality: Switzerland, USA
Mathematical Subjects: manifolds, embeddings, and more
About: Wu Wenjun
1919-2017
Nationality: China
Mathematical subjects: algebraic topology, mathematics history, others
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About: Wu Wen-Tsun
1919-2017
Nationality: China
Mathematical Subjects: topology, computer mathematics
About: Israel Gohberg
1928-2009
Nationality: Romania/Ukraine, Israel
Mathematical Subjects: operator theory and functional analysis.
Using subject headings in the OSU Library Catalog or the OhioLINK catalog, you can search for biographical sources on mathematicians.
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Below are mathematicians with print books about them - click their name to see a book
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