List of mathematicians
This is a list of famous mathematicians.
Australia
Azerbaijan
- Jalal Allakhverdiyev, member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (later called the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences); Mathematics; died in 2017
Brazil
- Elon Lages Lima, got the award, the Prêmio Jabuti, twice;[1] died in 2017[2]
Bulgaria
- Lyubomir Ivanov, got the award, Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics.[3]
Chile
- Nicanor Parra, got the Cervantes Prize, the most important literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world[4][5]
China
- Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Zi, known for authoring Sun Tzu Suan Ching (pinyin: Sun Zi Suan Jing; literally, "Sun Tzu's Calculation Classic"), which contains the Chinese remainder theorem.
- Wu Wenjun, known for the Wu class and the Wu formula are named after him. In the field of automated theorem proving, he is known for Wu's method; died in 2017
- Zhang Heng, made the first seismometer; Astronomy, engineering, meteorology, geology, philosophy, and mathematics; died in 139 A.D.
Croatia
- Roger Joseph Boscovich, maker of a precursor of atomic theory; made the first geometric procedure for finding out the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position; discoverer of the absence of atmosphere on the Moon;[6] he was from a city in what later became Croatia; died in 1787
Czechia
- Petr Vopěnka, he developed Alternative set theory; died in 2015
Egypt
- Euclid of Alexandria, known for Euclidean geometry, Euclid's Elements, Euclidean algorithm; died in the middle of 3rd century BC
Finland
- Lars Ahlfors, known for his work of complex analysis
France
Main :
- Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, the first female mathematical sciences professor in Norway;[7] Applied mathematics, she died in 2017
- Sophie Germain
Germany
Main :
Great Britain
England
- Charles Babbage, credited with inventing the first mechanical computer (or analytical engine);[8][9] died in 1871
- Alan Turing, he was important in the development of theoretical computer science,[10][11][12][13] and is known for the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer; died in 1954
- Andrew Wiles, proved Fermat's Last Theorem; his field is Number theory
- Lucy Joan Slater, her field is mathematical functions
- James H. Wilkinson, his field is numerical analysis
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
- Gerolamo Cardano, he invented - partially - the gimbal consisting of three concentric rings allowing a supported compass or gyroscope to rotate freely, and the Cardan shaft;[15] died in 1576
Iran
- Maryam Mirzakhani - first woman to receive the Fields Medal; she died in 2017
Japan
- Goro Shimura - expert of number theory
- Hiroshi Umemura - former professor at Nagoya University
- Kiyoshi Oka - former professor at Kyoto University
- Kyuya Masuda
- Masaaki Sugihara - former professor at the University of Tokyo
- Masao Iri
- Masatake Mori
- Ryogo Hirota - former professor at Waseda University
- Shinichi Oishi
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
- Niels Henrik Abel, did the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation (en) in radicals; died in 1829 [17]
Romania
- Solomon Marcus, recognised[18][19][20] as an initiator of (, or one of the people that started) mathematical linguistics, and mathematical poetics; also a semiotician, he died in 2016
Russia
Main :
Switzerland
- Leonhard Euler, was the first to show the notion of (or idea about), a mathematical function; [21] died in 1783
Syria
- Al-Battani, known for showing several relations within trigonometry; he lived and worked in a city that now belongs to Syria; died in 929
Ukraine
- Leonid Plyushch, died in 2015
Related pages
Further reading
- Dunham, William. Euler: The Master of Us All (1999)Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 978-0-88385-328-3.
- ↑ http://gazeta.spm.pt/getArtigo?gid=115
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Academician Nikola Obreshkov Prize for 1987
- ↑ "Nicanor Parra awarded Cervantes Prize". BBC News. 1 December 2011. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15986344.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Энциклопедия для детей (астрономия) (1998). Москва: Аванта+. ISBN 978-5-89501-016-7.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Copeland, B. Jack. The Modern History of Computing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (Dec 18, 2000). Retrieved 1 March 2017.
- ↑ Newman, M.H.A.. General Principles of the Design of All-Purpose Computing Machines (1948)Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series A, 195. p. 271–274.
- ↑ Newman, M. H. A.. Alan Mathison Turing. 1912–1954. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1 (1955). p. 253–263. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0019.
- ↑ 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.".
- ↑ Sipser 2006, p. 137
- ↑ Beavers 2013, p. 481
- ↑ According to Facts about Erdös Numbers and the Collaboration Graph., using the Mathematical Reviews data base, the next highest article count is roughly 823.
- ↑ Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study (January 2009)Dodo Press. ISBN 9781409959595.
- ↑ E. Levi-Provencal, Chorfa, p. 231
- ↑ The Biography of Niels Henrik Abel: His last years. www.abelprize.no. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Unversalis (French), vol. 9, 1971, p. 1057-1059, and vol. 13, 1989, p. 837.
- ↑ Brokhaus Encyclopedie (German), XVIIth improved edition, vol. 12, MAI-MOS, Wiesbaden, 1971, p. 255-256.
- ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, vol. 15, Macmillan, New York-London, 1977, p. 568-569.
- ↑ Dunham 1999, p. 17
