List of mathematicians

This is a list of famous mathematicians.

Australia

• Lily Serna, television presenter on Letters and Numbers (en)
• Terence Tao

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; died in 2017

Bulgaria

• Lyubomir Ivanov, got the award, Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics.

Chile

• Nicanor Parra, got the Cervantes Prize, the most important literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world

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; 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

• Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, the first female mathematical sciences professor in Norway; Applied mathematics, she died in 2017
• Sophie Germain

Germany

• Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Great Britain

Greek

• Eratosthenes
• Euclid
• Pythagoras

Hungary

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

India

• Srinivasa Ramanujan

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; 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. 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

Romania

• Solomon Marcus, recognised as an initiator of (, or one of the people that started) mathematical linguistics, and mathematical poetics; also a semiotician, he died in 2016

Russia

• Israel Gelfand
• Leonid Kantorovich
• Marina Ratner
• Sofya Kovalevskaya
• Vladimir Arnold

Switzerland

• Leonhard Euler, was the first to show the notion of (or idea about), a mathematical function; 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

• List of mathematics topics
• List of scientists
• Mathematics
• Timeline of women in mathematics

Further reading

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.
5. ↑ Rodriguez M., Javier (1 December 2011). "El poeta chileno Nicanor Parra, premio Cervantes". El Pais. 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". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 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 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. Archived from the original on 19 January 2011. 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 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFSipser2006 (help)
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14. ↑ According to "Facts about Erdös Numbers and the Collaboration Graph". Archived from the original on 2023-03-07. Retrieved 2017-09-16., 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