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Abel, Niels Henrik ( 1802 - 1829)

 

Ackermann, Wilhelm (1896 - 1962)

 

Agnesi, Maria (1718 - 1799)

 

Al-Khwarizmi  (ca. 800 - 847)

 

Albert, Abraham Adrian (1905 - 1972)

 

Alcuin  of York (735 - 804)

 

Archimedes (287 BCE - 212 BCE)*

 

Archytas of Tarentum (428BC - 350BC)

 

Artin, Emil (1898 - 1962)

 

Babbage, Charles (1791 - 1871)*

 

Bachet, Claude (1581 - 1638)

 

Banach, Stefan (1892 - 1945)

 

Barrow, Isaac (1630 - 1677)*

 

Bede the Venerable (c. 673-735)

 

Behnke Heinrich (1898 - 1979)

 

Beltrami, Eugenio (1835-1900)

 

Bernays, Paul (1888-1977)

 

Bernoulli, Daniel (1700 - 1782)*

 

Bernoulli, Jakob  (1654-1705)

 

Bernoulli, Johann I (1667 - 1748)*

 

Bernoulli, Johann II (1710- 1790)*

 

Bernoulli, Johann III (1744 - 1807)

 

Bernstein, Sergei (1880 - 1968)

 

Besicovitch, Abram (1891 - 1970)

 

Bessel, Wilhelm (1784 - 1846)

 

Betti, Enrico (1823 - 1892)

 

Bing R H (1914 - 1986)

 

Birkhoff, Garrett D. (1911 - 1996)

 

Bliss, Gilbert Ames (1876 - 1951)

 

Bolyai, Janos (1802 - 1860)

 

Bolzano, Bernard (1781 - 1848)*

 

Bombelli Rafael (1526 - 1572)

 

Boole, George (1815-1864)

 

Borel, Emile (1871 - 1956)

 

Bowditch Nathaniel (1773 - 1838)

 

Brahe, Tycho (1546 - 1601)

 

Brouncker, Lord W. (1620 - 1684)

 

Brouwer, Lutzen E. J. (1881 - 1966)

 

Byron, Ada (Lady Lovelace) (1815 - 1852)

 

Cantor, Georg  (1845 - 1918)

 

Cantor, Moritz (1829 - 1920)*

 

Caratheodory, Constantin (1873 - 1950)

 

Cardano, Girolamo (1501 - 1576)

 

Carnot, Nicolas Sadi (1796 - 1832)

 

Cartan, Elie Joseph (1869 - 1951)

 

Cartwright, Mary Lucy (1900 - 1998)

 

Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625 - 1712)

 

Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789 - 1857)*

 

Cavalieri, Buenaventura (1598 - 1647)

 

Cayley, Arthur (1821 - 1895)*

 

Cesaro Ernesto (1859 - 1906)

 

Chasles, Michel (1793 - 1880)*

 

Châtelet, Émilie du (1706 - 1749)

 

Chebyshev, Pafnuty (1821 - 1894)

 

Cheng, Dawei (1533 - 1606)

 

Chern, Shing-Shen (1911 - 2004)

 

Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713 - 1765)*

 

Clavius, Christoph (1538 - 1612)*

 

Cohen, Paul (1934 - )

 

Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat (1743 - 1794)*

 

Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473 - 1543)

 

Crelle August (1780 - 1855)

 

Cremona Luigi (1830 - 1903)

 

Coxeter, H. S. M. (1907 - 2001)

 

D'Alembert, Jean le Rond (1717 - 1783)*

 

Darboux, Jean Gaston (1842 - 1917)

 

Dedekind, Richard (1831 - 1916)

 

Dee, John (1527 - 1608)*

 

Dehn, Max (1878 - 1972)

 

DeMoivre, Abraham (1667 - 1754)

 

DeMorgan, Augustus (1806 - 1871)

 

Desargues, Girard (1591 - 1662)

 

Descartes, René (1596 - 1650)*

 

Dini, Ulisse (1845 - 1918)

 

Dirichlet, Gustav P. L. (1805 - 1859)

 

Dodgson, Charles [Lewis Carroll] (1832 - 1896)

 

Douglas, Jesse (1897 - 1965)

 

Du Bois-Reymond, Paul (1831 - 1889)

 

Ehrenfest, Tatiana (1876 - 1964)*

 

Einstein, Albert (1879 - 1955)

 

Eisenstein, Ferdinard Gotthold (1890 - 1962)

 

Enriques, Federigo (1871 - 1946)

 

Erdós, Paul (1913 - 1996)

 

Euclid  (c. 300 BCE)

 

Euler, Leonhard (1707 - 1783)*

 

Eves, Howard (1911 - 2004)

 

Fatou, Pierre (1878 - 1929)

 

Fermat, Pierre de (1601 - 1665)

 

Feuerbach, Karl (1800 - 1834)

 

Fine, Nathan J.  (1916 - 1994)

 

Fisher, Ronald A. (1890 - 1962)

 

Flamsteed, John (1646 - 1719)

 

Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768 - 1830)*

 

Frankel, Adolf Abraham (1891 - 1965)

 

Fréchet, Maurice R. (1878 - 1973)

 

Fredholm, Ivar (1866 - 1927)

 

Frege, Gottlob (1848 - 1925)

 

Frisius, Gemma (1508 - 1555)*

 

Frobenius, Georg (1849 - 1917)

 

Galileo  Galilei (1564 - 1643)

 

Galois, Évariste (1811 - 1832)

 

Galton, Sir Francis (1822 - 1911)

 

Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777 - 1855)

 

Gelfond, Aleksandr O. (1906 - 1968)

 

Germain, Sophie (1716-1831)

 

Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839 - 1903)

 

Gödel, Kurt (1906 - 1978)

 

Grassmann, Hermann (1809 - 1872)

 

Gregory, James (1638 - 1675)*

 

Guo, Shoiying (1231 - 1316)

 

Halmos, Paul (1916 - 2006)

 

Hamilton, William Rowan (1805-1865)

 

Hardy, Godfrey Harold (1877 - 1947)

 

Hausdorff, Felix (1868 - 1942)

 

Heawood, Percy (1861 - 1955)

 

Heine, Eduard Heinrich (1821 - 1881)

 

Helly, Eduard (1884 - 1943)

 

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia (1750 - 1848)

 

Hilbert, David (1862 - 1943 )

 

Hille, Einar (1899 - 1980)

 

Hironaka, Heisuke (1931 - )

 

Hodgson, James (1672 - 1755)*

 

Honda, Taira (1932 - 1975)

 

Hopf, Heinz (1894 - 1971)

 

Hsu, Pao-Lu (1910 - 1970)

 

Hudde, Johann (1628 - 1704)

 

Huygens, Christiaan (1629 - 1695)*

 

Hypatia (355 - 415)

 

Ikeda, Maratoshi (1926 - 2003)

 

Ito, Kiyosi (1915 - )

 

Iwasawa, Kenkichi (1917 - 1998)

 

Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob (1804 - 1851)*

 

Jordan, Camille (1838 - 1922)

 

Julia, Gaston Maurice (1893 - 1978)

 

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)

 

Khayyam, Omar (ca. 1044-1123)

 

Khinchin, Aleksandr (1894 - 1959)

 

Klein, Felix (1849 - 1925)

 

Kodaira, Kunihiko (1915 - 1997)

 

Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich (1913 - 1987)

 

Konig, Samuel (1712 - 1757)

 

Kovalevskaya, Sonya (1850-1891)

 

Kowa, Seki Takokozu (1642 - 1708)

 

Kronecker, Leopold (1832 - 1891)

 

Kua, Shen (1031 - 1095)

 

Kummer, Ernst (1810 - 1893)

 

Lagrange, Joseph Louis (1736 - 1813)*

 

Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1728 - 1777)*

 

Lamé, Gabriel (1795 - 1870)

 

Laplace, Pierre Simon (1749 - 1827)*

 

Lasker, Emanuel (1868 - 1941)

 

Lebesgue, Henri (1875 - 1941)

 

Legendre, Adrien Marie (1752 - 1833)*

 

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646 - 1716)*

 

Leonardo of Pisa  (ca. 1175-1250)

 

Li, Shanlan (1811 - 1882)

 

Lie, Sophus (1842 - 1899)

 

Liouville, Joseph (1809 - 1882)

 

Littlewood, John (1885 - 1977)

 

Liu Hui (ca.250)

 

Lobachevsky, Nikolai (1793 - 1856)

 

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853 - 1928)

 

Lyapunov, Alexandr (1857 - 1918)

 

MacCullagh, James (1809 - 1847)

 

MacLaurin, Colin (1698 - 1746)*

 

Maestlin, Michael (1550 - 1631)*

 

Mandelbrot, Benoit (1924 - )

 

Markov, Andrei (1856 - 1922)

 

Mascheroni, Lorenzo (1750 - 1800)

 

Maxwell, James Clerk (1831 - 1879)

 

Mayer, Christian Gustav (1839 - 1907)

 

Mersenne, Marin (1588 - 1648)

 

Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de (1698 - 1759)*

 

Melanchthon, Philipp (1497 - 1560)*

 

Minkowski, Hermann (1864 - 1909)*

 

Mittag-Leffler, G. Magnus Gösta (1846 - 1927)

 

Möbius, August (1790 - 1868)

 

Monge, Gaspard (1746 - 1818)*

 

Montucla, Jean Etienne (1725 - 1799)*

 

Moore, Robert Lee (1882 - 1974)

 

Moufang, Ruth (1905 - 1977)

 

Nash, John Forbes (1928 - )

 

Napier, John (1550 - 1617)*

 

Neumann, Hanna (1914 - 1971)

 

Newton, Isaac (1642 - 1727)*

 

Neyman, Jerzy (1894 - 1981)

 

Nicomachus, (ca 100)

 

Nightingale, Florence(1820 - 1910)

 

Noether, Emmy (1882-1935)

 

Oldenburg, Henry (c. 1615 - 1677)

 

Ore, Øystein (1899 - 1964)

 

Oresme, Nicole (1323 - 1382)

 

Osgood, William F. (1864 - 1943)

 

Pacioli, Luca (1445 - 1509)

 

Pascal, Blaise (1623 - 1662)*

 

Peano, Giuseppe (1858 - 1932)

 

Pearson, Karl (1857 - 1936)

 

Peirce, Benjamin (1809 - 1890)

 

Playfair, John (1748 - 1819)*

 

Plucker, Julius (1801 - 1868)*

 

Poincaré, Henri (1854 - 1912)*

 

Poinsot, Louis (1777 - 1859)

 

Poisson, Siméon-Denis (1781 - 1840)*

 

Poncelet, Jean Victor (1788 - 1867)*

 

Ptolemy (ca. 100 - ca. 170)*

 

Pythagoras (ca. 580 BCE - ca. 500 BCE)*

 

Ramus, Petrus (1515 - 1572)*

 

Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920)

 

Regiomontanus, Johannes (1436 - 1476)*

 

Renyi, Alfred (1921 - 1970)

 

Ricci-Curbastro, G. (1853 - 1925)

 

Riemann, Bernhard (1826 - 1866)*

 

Rudin, Mary Ellen(1924 - )

 

Russell, Bertrand (1872 - 1970)

 

Runge, Carl (1856 - 1927)

 

Salmon, George (1819 - 1904)

 

Saunderson, Nicholas (1682 - 1739)*

 

Schering, Ernst Christian Julius (1824 - 1889)*

 

Schröder, Ernst (1841 - 1902)

 

Schwartz, Laurent (1915 - 2002)

 

Scott, Charlotte Angas (1858 - 1931)

 

Shannon, Claude (1916 - 2001)

 

Shnirelmann, Lev G. (1905 - 1938)

 

Sierpinski, Waclaw (1882 - 1969)

 

Somerville, Mary (1780 - 1872)

 

Steiner, Jacob (1796 - 1863)

 

Stevin, Simon (1548 - 1620)

 

Stokes, George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)*

 

Sturm, Leonhard Christoph (1669 - 1719)*

 

Sylow, Ludvig (1832 - 1918)

 

Sylvester, James Joseph (1814 - 1897)*

 

Taniyama, Yukata (1927 - 1958)

 

Tarski, Alfred (1902 - 1983)

 

Tartaglia, Niccolò (1499 - 1557)*

 

Taussky-Todd, Olga (1906 - 1995)

 

Taylor, Brooke (1685 - 1731)

 

Torricelli, Evangelista (1608 - 1647)

 

Turing, Alan (1912 - 1954)

 

Ulam, Stanislav (1909 - 1984)

 

Vacca, Giovanni E (1872 - 1953)

 

Van Ceulen, Ludolph (1540 - 1610)

 

Varignon, Pierre (1654 - 1722)*

 

Veblen, Thorsten (1857 - 1929)

 

Venn, John (1834 - 1923)

 

Viète, François (1540 - 1603)*

 

Vinogradov, Ivan M. (1891 - 1983)

 

Von Koch, Helge (1870 - 1924)

 

Von Neumann, John (1903 - 1957)

 

Wald, Abraham (1902 - 1950)

 

Wallis, John (1616 - 1703)*

 

Weierstrass, Karl (1815 - 1897)*

 

Weyl, Hermann (1885 - 1955)*

 

Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 - 1947)

 

Wiener, Norbert (1896 - 1964)

 

Wiles, Andrew (1953 - )

 

Wren, Christopher (1632 - 1723)

 

Young, William Henry (1863 - 1942)

 

Zeno, of Elea(490BC - 425BC)

 

Zermelo, Ernst (1871 - 1953)