List of mathematicians

This is a list of famous mathematicians.

Australia

Azerbaijan

Brazil

Bulgaria

Chile

China

  • Zhang Heng, made the first seismometer; Astronomy, engineering, meteorology, geology, philosophy, and mathematics; died in 139 A.D.

Croatia

Czechia

Egypt

Finland

France

Germany

Great Britain

England

Greek

Hungary

  • Paul Erdős, published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed;[14] died 1996
  • Peter Lax (American mathematician born in Hungary)

India

Italy

Iran

Japan

Morocco

  • Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi, wrote Meknes's history and a commentary to the treatise of Ibn al-Banna; a work that explained the mentioned work, was named ["The desire of students for an explanation of the calculator's craving"] Bughyat al-tulab fi sharh munyat al-hussab (including, arithmetic and algebraic methods.[16] died in 1513

Norway

Romania

Russia

Switzerland

Syria

Ukraine

Related pages

Further reading

  • Dunham, William (1999). Euler: The Master of Us All. Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 978-0-88385-328-3.
  1. http://gazeta.spm.pt/getArtigo?gid=115
  2. Circe Mary Silva da Silva, "Entrevista: Elon Lages Lima Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine", Revista Matemática Universitária, Number 33, December 2002, pp. 97–120.
  3. The Academician Nikola Obreshkov Prize for 1987
  4. "Nicanor Parra awarded Cervantes Prize". BBC News. 1 December 2011. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15986344. 
  5. Rodriguez M., Javier (1 December 2011). El poeta chileno Nicanor Parra, premio Cervantes. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/poeta/chileno/Nicanor/Parra/premio/Cervantes/elpepucul/20111130elpepucul_10/Tes. Retrieved 1 December 2011. 
  6. Энциклопедия для детей (астрономия). Москва: Аванта+. 1998. ISBN 978-5-89501-016-7.
  7. Berntsen, Jarle; Lunde, Per (16 March 2017). "Nekrolog: Jacqueline Andreè Naze Tjøtta" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. http://www.aftenposten.no/personalia/Nekrolog-Jacqueline-Andre-Naze-Tjotta-617311b.html. Retrieved 26 March 2017. 
  8. Copeland, B. Jack (Dec 18, 2000). "The Modern History of Computing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved on 1 March 2017. 
  9. Newman, M.H.A. (1948). 'General Principles of the Design of All-Purpose Computing Machines'. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series A, 195. pp. 271–274.
  10. Newman, M. H. A. (1955). "Alan Mathison Turing. 1912–1954". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 253–263. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0019. JSTOR 769256. S2CID 711366.
  11. Gray, Paul (29 March 1999). "Alan Turing – Time 100 People of the Century". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990624,00.html. Retrieved 16 September 2017. "Providing a blueprint for the electronic digital computer. The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine.". 
  12. Sipser 2006, p. 137
  13. Beavers 2013, p. 481
  14. According to "Facts about Erdös Numbers and the Collaboration Graph"., using the Mathematical Reviews data base, the next highest article count is roughly 823.
  15. Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study. Dodo Press. January 2009. ISBN 9781409959595.
  16. E. Levi-Provencal, Chorfa, p. 231
  17. "The Biography of Niels Henrik Abel: His last years". www.abelprize.no. Archived from the original on 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  18. Encyclopaedia Unversalis (French), vol. 9, 1971, p. 1057-1059, and vol. 13, 1989, p. 837.
  19. Brokhaus Encyclopedie (German), XVIIth improved edition, vol. 12, MAI-MOS, Wiesbaden, 1971, p. 255-256.
  20. Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, vol. 15, Macmillan, New York-London, 1977, p. 568-569.
  21. Dunham 1999, p. 17