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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.  Finally, those marked by a % sign are sketches by Jemma Lorenat of Simon Fraser 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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Nash, John Forbes (1928 - )

 

Napier, John (1550 - 1617)*

 

Nelson, Evelyn Roden (1943 - 1987)

 

Netto, Eugen (1848 - 1919)  (A sketch %)

 

Neugebauer, Otto (1899 - 1990)

 

Neumann, Bernhard (1909 - 2002)

 

Neumann, Hanna (1914 - 1971)

 

Neumann, John von:  See Von Neumann, John

 

Newcomb, Simon (1835 - 1910)

 

Newton, Isaac (1642 - 1727)*

 

Neyman, Jerzy (1894 - 1981)

 

Nicomachus (ca. 100)

 

Nieuwland, Pieter (1764 - 1794)

 

Nightingale, Florence (1820 - 1910)

 

Noether, Emmy (1882 - 1935)

 

Nunes, Pedro Salaciene (1502 - 1578)

 

Oldenburg, Henry (c. 1615 - 1677)

 

Ore, Øystein (1899 - 1964)

 

Oresme, Nicole (1323 - 1382)

 

Osgood, William F. (1864 - 1943)

 

Ostrogradsky, Mikhail (1801 - 1861)

 

Oughtred, William (1574 - 1660)

 

Pacioli, Luca (1445 - 1509)

 

Pascal, Blaise (1623 - 1662)*

 

Peacock, George (1791 - 1858)

 

Peano, Giuseppe (1858 - 1932)

 

Pearson, Karl (1857 - 1936)

 

Peirce, Benjamin (1809 - 1890)

 

Penrose, Roger (1931 -    )

 

Perelman, Grigori (1966 -    )

 

Perron, Oskar (1880 - 1975)

 

Pfaff, Johann Friedrich (1765 - 1825)

 

Pick, Georg Alexander (1859 – ca 1943)

 

Plateau, Joseph Antonine (1801 - 1883)

 

Playfair, John (1748 - 1819)*

 

Plucker, Julius (1801 - 1868)*

 

Poincaré, Henri (1854 - 1912)*

 

Poinsot, Louis (1777 - 1859)

 

Poisson, Siméon-Denis (1781 - 1840)*

 

Pompeiu, Dimitrie (1873 - 1954)

 

Poncelet, Jean Victor (1788 - 1867)*

 

Ptolemy (ca. 100 - ca. 170)*

 

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

 

Quetelet, Adolphe (1796 - 1874)

 

Radó, Tibor (1895 - 1965)

 

Rajagopal, Cadambathur (1903 - 1978)

 

Ramus, Petrus (1515-1572)*

 

Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920)

 

Ramsey, Frank (1903-1930)

 

Rayleigh, Lord  [John William Strutt] (1842-1919)

 

Recorde, Robert (1510—1558)

 

Regiomontanus, Johannes (1436-1476)*

 

Rejewski, Marian (1905-1980)

 

Renyi, Alfred (1921 - 1970)

 

Rheticus, Georg Joachim von (1514-1574)

 

Riccati, Vincenzo (1707 - 1775)

 

Ricci, Matteo (1552 - 1610)

 

Ricci-Curbastro, G. (1853 - 1925)

 

Riemann, Bernhard (1826 - 1866)*

 

Ries [Riese], Adam (1492 - 1559)

 

Riesz, Frigyes (1880 - 1956)

 

Robinson, Abraham (1918 - 1974)

 

Robinson, Julia (1919 - 1985)

 

Rudin, Mary Ellen (1924 - )

 

Ruffini, Paolo (1765 - 1822)

 

Runge, Carl (1856 - 1927)

 

Runkle, John D. (1822 - 1902)

 

Russell, Bertrand (1872 - 1970)

 

Saint-Vincent, Gregorius (1584 - 1667)

 

Salmon, George (1819 - 1904)

 

Saunderson, Nicholas (1682 - 1739)*

 

Scheffé, Henry (1907 - 1977)

 

Schering, Ernst Christian Julius (1824 - 1889)*

 

Scherk, Heinrich (1798 - 1885)

 

Schickard, Wilhelm (1592 - 1635)

 

Schläfli,  Ludwig (1814 - 1895)

 

Schőnflies, Arthur Moritz (1853—1928)

 

Schottky, Friedrich Hermann (1851 - 1935)

 

Schouten, Jan Arnoldus (1883 - 1971)

 

Schröder, Ernst (1841 - 1902)

 

Schwartz, Laurent (1915 - 2002)

 

Schwarzschild, Karl (1873 - 1916)

 

Scott, Charlotte Angas (1858 - 1931)

 

Seidenberg, Abraham (1916 - 1988)

 

Serret, Joseph Alfred (1819 - 1885)

 

Shannon, Claude (1916 - 2001)

 

Sharp, Abraham (1653 - 1742)

 

Shen Kua (1031- 1095)

 

Shnirelmann, Lev G. (1905 - 1938)

 

Siegel, Carl Ludwig (1896 - 1981)

 

Sierpinski, Waclaw (1882 - 1969)

 

Simpson, Thomas (1710 - 1761)

 

Skolem, Thoralf A. (1887 - 1963)

 

Slaught, Herbert (1861 - 1937)

 

Smale, Stephen (1930 - )

 

Smullyan, Raymond (1919 - )

 

Snell, Willebrord (1580 - 1626)

 

Somerville, Mary (1780 - 1872)

 

Sommerfeld, Arnold (1868 - 1951)

 

Sommerville, Duncan M. Y.  (1879 – 1934)

 

Staudt, Karl G.C. von (1798 - 1867) 

 

Steiner, Jacob (1796 - 1863)

 

Steinitz, Ernst (1871 - 1928)

 

Stevin, Simon (1548 - 1620)

 

Stewart, Ian (1945 - )

 

Stickelberger, Ludwig (1850 - 1936)

 

Stieltjes, Thomas (1856 - 1894)

 

Stokes, George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)*

 

Story, William (1850 - 1930)

 

Stott, Alicia Boole (1860 - 1940)

 

Sturm, Leonhard Christoph (1669 - 1719)*

 

Sylow, Peter Ludvig (1832 - 1918)

 

Sylvester, James Joseph (1814 - 1897)*

 

Tait, Peter Guthrie (1831 - 1901)

 

Takagi, Teyi (1875 - 1960)

 

Taniyama, Yukata (1927 - 1958)

 

Tarry, Gaston (1843-1913)

 

Tarski, Alfred (1902 - 1983)

 

Tartaglia, Niccolò (1499 - 1557)*

 

Taussky-Todd, Olga (1906 - 1995)

 

Taylor, Brooke (1685 - 1731)

 

Thabit ibn Qurra (836 - 901)

 

Thales of Miletus (c. 624 BCE - 547 BCE)

 

Thom, René (1923 - 2002)

 

Thue, Axel (1863 - 1922)

 

Tietze, Heinrich Franz (1880 - 1964)

 

Titchmarsh, Edward (1899 - 1963)

 

Toeplitz, Otto (1881 - 1940)

 

Torricelli, Evangelista (1608 - 1647)

 

Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried von (1651 - 1708)

 

Tucker, Albert (1905 – 1995)

 

Turing, Alan (1912 - 1954)

 

Ulam, Stanislav (1909 - 1984)

 

Vacca, Giovanni E (1872 - 1953)

 

Van Ceulen, Ludolph (1540 - 1610)

 

Van der Waerden, Bartel Leindert (1903 - 1996)

 

Van Schooten, Frans (1615 - 1660)

 

Van Vleck, Edward (1863 - 1943)

 

Varignon, Pierre (1654 - 1722)*

 

Veblen, Thorsten (1857 - 1929)

 

Venn, John (1834 - 1923)

 

Verhulst, Pierre François (1804 - 1849)

 

Vessiot, Ernest (1865 - 1952 )

 

Viète, François (1540 - 1603)*

 

Vinogradov, Ivan M. (1891 - 1983)

 

Vitali, Giuseppe (1875 - 1932)

 

Viviani, Vincenzo (1622 - 1703)

 

Voigt, Woldemar (1850 - 1919)

 

Volterra, Vito (1860 - 1940)

 

Von Koch, Helge (1870 - 1924)

 

Von Kues, Nikolaus (1401 - 1464)

 

Von Lindemann, Carl Louis (1852 - 1939)

 

Von Mises, Richard (1883 - 1953)

 

Von Neumann, John (1903 - 1957)

 

Wald, Abraham (1902 - 1950)

 

Wallis, John (1616 - 1703)*

 

Waring, Edward (1736 - 1798)

 

Weber, Heinrich (1842-1913)%

 

Weber, Wilhelm (1804 - 1891)

 

Wedderburn, Joseph (1882 - 1948)  (A sketch %)

 

Weierstrass, Karl (1815 - 1897)*

 

Weil, André (1906-1998)

 

Weyl, Hermann (1885-1955)*  (A sketch %)

 

Wheeler, Anna (1883 - 1966)

 

Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 - 1947)

 

Whitehead, Henry (1904 - 1960)

 

Whiteside, Derek Thomas (1932 - 2008) 

 

Whitney, Hassler (1907 – 1989)

 

Wiener, Norbert (1896 - 1964)

 

Wiles, Andrew (1953 - )

 

Wolff, Christian (1679 - 1754)

 

Wren, Christopher (1632 - 1723)

 

Wronski, Josef-Maria de (1778 - 1853)

 

Wythoff, Willem Abraham (1865 - 1939)

 

Xu Guangqi (1562-1633)

 

Yang Hui (1238 - 1298)

 

Yau, Shing-Tung (1949 - )

 

Young, Lai-Sang (1952 - )

 

Young, Grace Chisholm (1868 - 1944)

 

Young, William Henry (1863 - 1942)

 

Yule, George (1871 – 1951)

 

Zeckendorf, Edouard (1901 - 1983 )

 

Zeno of Elea (490 BC - 425 BC)

 

Zermelo, Ernst (1871-1953)  (A sketch %)

 

Zeuthen, Hieronymus (1839 - 1920)

 

Zorn, Max (1906 - 1993)

 

Zu Chongzhi (429- 501)

 

Zygmund, Antoni (1900 - 1992)