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Mathematician Biographies
Every archived life recorded as mathematician, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Contemporary era
David Chaum
b. 1955
American computer scientist and cryptographer
Contemporary era
Charles Hoskinson
b. November 5, 1987
American entrepreneur, founder of Cardano
Contemporary era
Silvio Micali
b. October 13, 1954
Italian-American computer scientist
Contemporary era
Ben Goertzel
b. December 8, 1966
Author and researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence
Contemporary era
Nikolai Durov
b. November 21, 1980
Russian programmer and mathematician
Contemporary era
Eric Hughes
b. c. 1953
Cypherpunk movement co-founder
Contemporary era
Phil Zimmermann
b. February 12, 1954
Creator of Pretty Good Privacy
Contemporary era
Len Sassaman
April 9, 1980 – July 3, 2011
US computer systems engineer
Contemporary era
Ralph Merkle
b. February 2, 1952
American cryptographer and cryonicist (born 1952)
Stuart Haber
American cryptographer
Contemporary era
Dan Boneh
b. 1969
Israeli cryptographer
Contemporary era
Ben Delo
b. February 24, 1984
British mathematician and programmer
Contemporary era
Glen Weyl
b. May 6, 1985
American economist
Contemporary era
Nicușor Dan
b. December 20, 1969
President of Romania since 2025
Modern era
Lúcio Lara
April 9, 1929 – February 27, 2016
Angolan politician (1929-2016)
Contemporary era
Keith Mitchell
b. November 12, 1946
Grenadian politician
Contemporary era
Laimdota Straujuma
b. February 24, 1951
12th Prime Minister of Latvia (born 1951)
Medieval era
Mahavira
800 CE – 875 CE
Mathematician
Ancient era
Thales of Miletus
c. 650 BCE – 548 BCE
Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
Ancient era
Pythagoras
c. 550 BCE – c. 490 BCE
Greek mathematician and mystic of number and harmony
Ancient era
Democritus
c. 460 BCE – c. 360 BCE
Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)
Ancient era
Euclid
b. c. 333 BCE
Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Ancient era
Archimedes
287 BCE – 212 BCE
Greatest mathematician of antiquity, pioneer of mechanics and hydrostatics
Ancient era
Eratosthenes
276 BCE – 194 BCE
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
Ancient era
Claudius Ptolemy
100 CE – 170 CE
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
Ancient era
Hypatia
360 CE – 415 CE
Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher, martyr of ancient learning
Ancient era
Aryabhata
476 CE – 550 CE
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
Early Modern era
Galileo Galilei
February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642
Astronomer and physicist, father of observational science
Early Modern era
Isaac Newton
December 25, 1642 – March 31, 1727
Physicist and mathematician who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation
Modern era
Alan Turing
June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954
Mathematician who founded computer science and broke Enigma
Modern era
Ada Lovelace
December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852
Mathematician who wrote the first computer program a century early
Contemporary era
Katherine Johnson
August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020
NASA mathematician whose orbital calculations carried astronauts home
Contemporary era
Stephen Hawking
January 8, 1942 – March 14, 2018
Cosmologist who mapped black holes from a wheelchair
Medieval era
Nicolaus Copernicus
February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
Early Modern era
Johannes Kepler
December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
Early Modern era
Edmond Halley
November 8, 1656 – January 14, 1742
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
Early Modern era
Caroline Herschel
March 16, 1750 – January 9, 1848
German-British astronomer (1750-1848)
Modern era
Georges Lemaitre
July 17, 1894 – June 20, 1966
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
Early Modern era
Leonhard Euler
April 15, 1707 – September 18, 1783
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
Early Modern era
Carl Friedrich Gauss
April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
Modern era
Bernhard Riemann
September 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866
German mathematician (1826–1866)
Early Modern era
Pierre de Fermat
August 17, 1601 – January 12, 1665
French mathematician and lawyer
Early Modern era
Blaise Pascal
June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
Early Modern era
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
June 21, 1646 – November 14, 1716
Co-inventor of calculus and pioneer of computation
Medieval era
Fibonacci
1170 – c. 1240
Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
Medieval era
Al-Khwarizmi
c. 750 CE – 846 CE
Mathematician of Baghdad who gave the world algebra and algorithms
Medieval era
Ibn al-Haytham
965 CE – 1038
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Medieval era
Al-Razi
866 CE – 925 CE
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Modern era
Srinivasa Ramanujan
December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
Modern era
David Hilbert
January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943
German mathematician (1862–1943)
Modern era
Kurt Godel
April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
Modern era
Emmy Noether
March 23, 1882 – April 14, 1935
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
Modern era
John von Neumann
December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Modern era
Claude Shannon
April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
Modern era
James Clerk Maxwell
June 13, 1831 – November 5, 1879
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
Modern era
Ludwig Boltzmann
February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
Modern era
Lord Kelvin
June 26, 1824 – December 17, 1907
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
Early Modern era
Christiaan Huygens
April 14, 1629 – July 8, 1695
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
Early Modern era
Andre-Marie Ampere
January 20, 1775 – June 10, 1836
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
Early Modern era
Georg Ohm
March 16, 1789 – July 6, 1854
German physicist and mathematician