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Mathematician Biographies
Every archived life recorded as mathematician, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Modern era
J. J. Thomson
December 18, 1856 – August 30, 1940
British physicist (1856-1940)
Modern era
Erwin Schrodinger
August 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
Modern era
Paul Dirac
August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
Modern era
Satyendra Nath Bose
January 1, 1894 – February 4, 1974
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
Modern era
Roger Penrose
b. August 8, 1931
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
Modern era
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995
Indian-American astrophysicist
Early Modern era
John Dalton
September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
Early Modern era
Anders Celsius
November 27, 1701 – April 25, 1744
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
Modern era
Alfred Russel Wallace
January 8, 1823 – November 7, 1913
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)
Modern era
Gregor Mendel
July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
Early Modern era
Charles Babbage
December 26, 1791 – October 18, 1871
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
Modern era
Grace Hopper
December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
Early Modern era
Benjamin Banneker
November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806
Free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731–1806)
Modern era
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
September 5, 1857 – September 19, 1935
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
Medieval era
Omar Khayyam
May 18, 1048 – December 4, 1131
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
Early Modern era
René Descartes
March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
Early Modern era
Thomas Hobbes
April 5, 1588 – December 4, 1679
English philosopher (1588–1679)
Modern era
Lewis Carroll
January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
Modern era
Bertrand Russell
May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
Medieval era
Albrecht Durer
May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528
German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
Early Modern era
Christopher Wren
October 20, 1632 – March 8, 1723
English architect (1632–1723)
Early Modern era
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
November 12, 1651 – April 17, 1695
Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
Pope Sylvester II
d. May 12, 1003
Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
Medieval era
Nicholas of Cusa
1401 – August 11, 1464
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
Medieval era
Adelard of Bath
1075 – 1160
12th-century English natural philosopher
Medieval era
Witelo
1230 – 1275
Polish-German scholar
Medieval era
Georg von Peurbach
May 30, 1423 – April 8, 1461
Austrian mathematician and astronomer (1423-1461)
Medieval era
Paolo Toscanelli
April 21, 1397 – May 10, 1482
Florentine astronomer
Medieval era
Luca Pacioli
1445 – 1517
Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
Ancient era
Kidinnu
400 BCE – 330 BCE
Babylonian astronomer, possible creator of Babylonian System B ephemerides
Modern era
Josiah
February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903
American scientist (1839–1903)
Ancient era
Hero of Alexandria
10 CE – 75 CE
Ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
Ancient era
Pappus of Alexandria
290 CE – 350 CE
4th century Greek mathematician
Ancient era
Diophantus
c. 201 CE – 284 CE
3rd century Alexandrian Greek mathematician
Modern era
Sir Ziauddin Ahmad
February 13, 1878 – December 23, 1947
Indian mathematician and philosopher (1873-1947)
Modern era
Matiur Rahman (military pilot)
b. September 1, 1940
Indian physicist (1940-)
Modern era
Radhanath Sikdar
1813 – May 17, 1870
Indian mathematician
Modern era
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
June 29, 1893 – June 28, 1972
Indian scientist and statistician (1893–1972)
Ancient era
Anaximander
620 BCE – 547 BCE
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Ancient era
Anaxagoras
500 BCE – 428 BCE
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
Ancient era
Hipparchus
190 BCE – 120 BCE
2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
Patanjali
Ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
Ancient era
Zhang Heng
78 CE – 139 CE
Chinese scientist and statesman (78–139)
Modern era
Eamon de Valera
October 14, 1882 – August 29, 1975
Irish statesman (1882–1975)
Early Modern era
Evangelista Torricelli
October 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647
Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)
Early Modern era
Daniel Bernoulli
February 8, 1700 – March 17, 1782
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
Early Modern era
John Napier
February 1, 1550 – April 4, 1617
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
Early Modern era
Pierre-Simon Laplace
March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
Early Modern era
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
Early Modern era
Joseph Fourier
March 21, 1768 – May 16, 1830
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
Early Modern era
Sophie Germain
April 1, 1776 – June 27, 1831
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
Modern era
Evariste Galois
October 25, 1811 – May 31, 1832
French mathematician (1811-1832)
Modern era
Niels Henrik Abel
August 5, 1802 – April 6, 1829
Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)
Modern era
George Boole
November 2, 1815 – December 8, 1864
English mathematician, philosopher and logician (1815–1864)
Modern era
Georg Cantor
February 19, 1845 – January 6, 1918
German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)
Modern era
Henri Poincare
April 29, 1854 – July 17, 1912
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
Modern era
Paul Erdos
March 26, 1913 – September 20, 1996
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
Modern era
Benoit Mandelbrot
November 20, 1924 – October 14, 2010
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Contemporary era
Andrew Wiles
b. April 11, 1953
English mathematician (1953–)
Modern era
Donald Knuth
b. January 10, 1938
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)