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The following images are to be used for educational/instructional purposes only. Those denoted by an asterisk * are supplied by the Dibner Library of Science and Technology, The Smithsonian Institution Libraries, and their usage must conform to the Library’s rules and standards.  Those denoted by a # sign come from the Smith Collection at Columbia University.  Note that portraits of mathematicians from earlier than the fifteenth century are only suggestive.  We hope that readers will supply further portraits.

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Aaboe, Asger Hartvig (1922 - 2007)

 

Abel, Niels Henrik (1802 - 1829)

 

Abraham, Max (1875 – 1922)

 

Adrain, Robert (1775 - 1843 )

 

Ackermann, Wilhelm (1896 - 1962)

 

Agnesi, Maria (1718 - 1799)

 

Airy, George B. (1801 - 1892)#

 

Al-Biruni, Ahmad ( 973 - 1048 ) (A second portrait)

 

Al-Kashi, Ghiyath (1390 – 1450)

 

Al-Khwarizmi (ca. 800 - 847)

 

Al-Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201 – 1274)

 

Albert, Abraham Adrian (1905 - 1972)

 

Alcuin of York (735 - 804)

 

Apianus, Petrus (1495 - 1552)# (a second portrait)

 

Apollonius of Perga (c. 262 BCE - 190 BCE)

 

Archimedes (287 BCE - 212 BCE)*

 

Archytas of Tarentum (428BC - 350BC)

 

Arnauld, Antoine (1612 - 1694)#

 

Aronhold, Siegfried Heinrich (1819 - 1884 )

 

Artin, Emil (1898 - 1962)

 

Atiyah, Michael (1929 -    )

 

Babbage, Charles (1791 - 1871)*

 

Bachet, Claude (1581 - 1638)

 

Bacon, Roger (1214 – 1292)

 

Baker, Henry (1866 – 1956)

 

Banach, Stefan (1892 - 1945)

 

Barrow, Isaac (1630 - 1677)*

 

Bayes, Thomas (1702 - 1761)

 

Bede, The Venerable (c. 673-735)

 

Beg, Ulūgh (1393 – 1449)

 

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)

 

Bézout, Étienne (1730 - 1783)# (A second portrait)

 

Bing, R. H. (1914 - 1986)

 

Birkhoff, Garrett D. (1911 - 1996)

 

Blackwell, David (1919 -         )

 

Blaschke, Wilhelm (1885 – 1962)

 

Blichfeldt, Hans F. (1873 - 1945 )

 

Bliss, Gilbert Ames (1876 - 1951)

 

Boethius, Anicus (480 - 524)#

 

Bolyai, Janos (1802 - 1860)

 

Bolzano, Bernard (1781 - 1848)*

 

Bombelli, Rafael (1526 - 1572)

 

Bonnet, Pierre Ossian (1819 – 1892)

 

Boole, George (1815-1864)

 

Borel, Emile (1871 - 1956)

 

Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773 - 1838)

 

Brahe, Tycho (1546 - 1601)  (A second # and third # portrait)

 

Brouncker, Lord W. (1620 - 1684)

 

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

 

Bunyakovsky, Viktor (1804 - 1889)

 

Bürgi, Jobst (1552 - 1632)

 

Burnside, William (1852 - 1927)

 

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

 

Cajori, Florian  (1859 - 1930)

 

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)

 

Cartan, Henri Paul (1904 - 2008)

 

Cartwright, Mary Lucy (1900 - 1998)

 

Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625 - 1712)

 

Catalan, Eugène (1814 - 1894) #

 

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)  (A second # and third # portrait)

 

Chebyshev, Pafnuty (1821 - 1894)

 

Cheng Dawei (1533 - 1606)

 

Chern, Shing-Shen (1911 - 2004)

 

Chrysippus (280 - 206 BCE)#

 

Church, Alonzo (1903-1995)

 

Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713 - 1765)*

 

Clausen, Thomas (1801 - 1888)

 

Clavius, Christoph (1538 - 1612)*

 

Clifford, William K. (1845 - 1879)

 

Cohen, Paul (1934 - 2007)

 

Cole, Frank N. (1861 - 1926)#

 

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

 

Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473 - 1543)

 

Cotes, Roger (1682 - 1716)

 

Courant, Richard (1888-1972 )

 

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

 

Crelle, August (1780 - 1855)

 

Cremona, Luigi (1830 - 1903)

 

D'Alembert, Jean le Rond (1717 - 1783)# (A second# portrait)

 

Dantzig, George (1914 – 2005)

 

Darboux, Jean Gaston (1842 - 1917)

 

Dedekind, Richard (1831 - 1916)

 

Dee, John (1527 - 1608)*

 

Dehn, Max (1878 - 1972)

 

Delambre, Jean (1749 - 1822 )

 

Deligne, Pierre (1944 -       )

 

Democritus (460 - 370 BCE)#

 

De Moivre, Abraham (1667 - 1754)

 

De Morgan, Augustus (1806 - 1871) (A second# portrait)

 

De Rham, Georges (1903 - 1990)

 

Desargues, Girard (1591 - 1662)

 

Descartes, René (1596 - 1650)*

 

De Witt, Jan (1623 —1672)

 

Dickson, Leonard E. (1874 – 1954)

 

Dini, Ulisse (1845 - 1918)

 

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

 

Dodgson, Charles [Lewis Carroll] (1832 - 1896) (A second# and third portrait)

 

Douglas, Jesse (1897 - 1965)

 

Du Bois-Reymond, Paul (1831 - 1889)

 

Dürer, Abrecht (1471 - 1528 )

 

Dyck, Walther von (1856 – 1934)

 

Eckmann, Beno (1917 -       )

 

Edgeworth, Francis (1845 – 1926)

 

Ehrenfest, Tatiana (1876 - 1964)*

 

Eilenberg, Samuel (1913 - 1998)

 

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)

 

Fawcett, Philippa Garrett (1868—1948)

 

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)

 

Fueter, Karl Rudolf (1880 - 1950)

 

Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1643) (A second portrait)

 

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)

 

Gordan, Paul (1837-1912 )

 

Grassmann, Hermann (1809 - 1872)

 

Gregory, James (1638 - 1675)*

 

Guo Shoujing (1231 - 1316)

 

Guthrie, Francis (1831 – 1899)

 

Hadamard, Jacques (1865 - 1963) (A second portrait)

 

Halley, Edmond (1656 – 1742)

 

Halmos, Paul (1916 - 2006)

 

Hamilton, William Rowan (1805-1865)

 

Hankel, Herman (1839 – 1873)

 

Hardy, Godfrey Harold (1877 - 1947)

 

Harriot, Thomas (1560 – 1621) (A second portrait)

 

Hausdorff, Felix (1868 - 1942)

 

Heaviside, Oliver (1850 – 1925)

 

Heawood, Percy (1861 - 1955)

 

Heegaard, Poul (1871 – 1948)

 

Heine, Eduard Heinrich (1821 - 1881)

 

Helly, Eduard (1884 - 1943)

 

Hensel, Kurt (1861 - 1941)

 

Hermann, Jakob (1678 - 1733)

 

Hermite, Charles (1822 - 1901)

 

Heron of Alexandria (c. 10 - 75 )

 

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia (1750 - 1848)

 

Herschel, John (1792 - 1871)

 

Hesse, Ludwig Otto (1811-1874 )

 

Hilbert, David (1862 - 1943)

 

Hildebrant, John A. (1935 - 2003)

 

Hille, Einar (1899 - 1980)

 

Hipparchus of Rhodes (190 BCE - 120 BCE)  (A second image)

 

Hippocrates of Chios (c. 470 BCE - 410 BCE)

 

Hironaka, Heisuke (1931 - )

 

Hirsch, Kurt (1906 – 1986)

 

Hodge, William (1903 - 1975)

 

Hodgson, James (1672 - 1755)*

 

Holmboe, Bernt (1795 – 1850)

 

Honda, Taira (1932 - 1975)

 

Hooke, Robert (1635 - 1703)

 

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)

 

Jabir ibn Aflah  (c. 1100 - 1160)

 

Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob (1804 - 1851)*

 

Jones, William (1675 - 1749)

 

Jordan, Camille (1838 - 1922)

 

Julia, Gaston Maurice (1893 - 1978)

 

Karp, Carol  (1926 – 1972)

 

Kempe, Alfred Bray (1849 – 1922)

 

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) (A second and third portrait)

 

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)*

 

Lakatos, Imre (1922 – 1974)

 

Lamb, Horace (1849 - 1934)

 

Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1728 - 1777)*

 

Lamé, Gabriel (1795 - 1870)

 

Laplace, Pierre Simon (1749 - 1827)*

 

Lasker, Emanuel (1868 - 1941) (A second portrait)

 

Lebesgue, Henri (1875 - 1941)

 

Lefschetz, Solomon (1884 – 1972)

 

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)

 

Listing, Johann Benedict (1808 – 1882)

 

Littlewood, John (1885 - 1977)

 

Liu Hui (ca. 250)

 

Lobachevsky, Nikolai (1793 - 1856)

 

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853 - 1928)

 

Lorenz, Edward Norton (1917 - 2008)

 

Lüroth, Jacob (1844 - 1910)

 

Lyapunov, Alexandr (1857 - 1918)

 

MacCullagh, James (1809 - 1847)

 

Macfarlane, Alexander (1851 – 1913)

 

Mac Lane, Saunders (1907 - 2005)

 

MacLaurin, Colin (1698 - 1746)*

 

Maestlin, Michael (1550 - 1631)*

 

Mandelbrot, Benoit (1924 - )

 

Markov, Andrei (1856 - 1922)

 

Mascheroni, Lorenzo (1750 - 1800)

 

Maseres, Francis (1731 - 1824)

 

Maxwell, James Clerk (1831 - 1879)

 

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

 

Mayer, Christian Gustav (1839 - 1907)

 

Melanchthon, Philipp (1497 - 1560)*

 

Mersenne, Marin (1588 - 1648)

 

Miller, George A. (1863 - 1951 )

 

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)

 

Mordell, Louis (1888 – 1972)

 

Moufang, Ruth (1905 - 1977)