Famous Mathematicians

The list Famous Mathematicians includes Lily Serna, Derrick Crothers, Archimedes, Alan Turing and Narayana Pandit. The list consists of 8,830 members.

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Lily Serna

Australian mathematician

Overview: Lily Serna (born 5 July 1986) is an Australian mathematician and television presenter, best known for co-presenting the SBS game show Letters and Numbers (2010−2012) and the cooking show Destination Flavour ...

Date of birth: 5 July 1986

Age: 38

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Female

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Australian women television presenters 213T

Israeli emigrants to Australia 23T

Australian people of Palestinian descent 11T
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Derrick Crothers

British mathematician, ohysicist and politician

Overview: Derrick Samuel F. Crothers (born 24 June 1942) is a Northern Irish mathematician, physicist and former politician.

Date of birth: 24 June 1942

Age: 82

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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Northern Ireland MPAs 1973–74 74T

People educated at Rainey Endowed School 9T

Mathematicians from Northern Ireland 10T
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Pietro Boselli

Italian model and engineer

Overview: Pietro Boselli (born 3 December 1988) is an Italian model, engineer, and former mathematics lecturer at University College London.

Date of birth: 3 December 1988

Age: 35

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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21st-century Italian engineers 19T

Italian mathematicians 350T

Italian expatriates in the United Kingdom 42T
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Archimedes

Greek mathematician and physicist (c.287–c.212 BC)

Overview: Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek: Αρχιμήδης, Archimídis, Ancient Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης, Arkhimḗdēs c. – c. 212BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few ...

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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3rd-century BC mathematicians 7T

Buoyancy 6T

Hellenistic-era philosophers 10T
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Alan Turing

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

Overview: Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential ...

Date of birth: 23 June 1912

Date of death: 7 June 1954

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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British artificial intelligence researchers 35T

Scientists with secret work 4T

English gay sportsmen 35T
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Pavuluri Mallana

Indian mathematician

Overview: Pavuluri Mallana was an Indian mathematician of the 11th or early 12th century CE from present day Andhra Pradesh. Some historians consider him to be a contemporary of the Eastern Chalukya king Rajaraja ...

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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Scholars from Andhra Pradesh 39T

11th-century Indian scholars 1T

11th-century Indian mathematicians 4T
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Narayana Pandit

Indian mathematician

Overview: Narayaṇa Paṇḍita (Sanskrit: नारायण पण्डित) (1325–1400) was a major mathematician of India. Plofker writes that his texts were the most significant Sanskrit mathematics treatises after those of Bhaskara ...

Date of birth: 1340

Date of death: 1400

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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14th-century Indian mathematicians 4T

Articles containing Sanskrit-language text 54T

14th-century mathematicians 23T
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Ada Lovelace

Mathematician

Overview: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical gen ...

Date of birth: 10 December 1815

Date of death: 27 November 1852

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Female

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Burials at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall 5T

19th-century English women writers 351T

19th-century British women scientists 74T
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John Nash

American mathematician

Overview: John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations ...

Date of birth: 13 June 1928

Date of death: 23 May 2015

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty 38T

Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 106T

McLean Hospital patients 21T
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Anil Kumar Gain

Indian mathematician and statistician

Overview: Anil Kumar Gain (1 February 1919 – 7 February 1978) (also spelt Anil Kumar Gayen) was an Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his works on the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient ...

Date of birth: 1 February 1919

Date of death: 7 February 1978

Age: 59 (age at death)

Occupation: Mathematician

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Medical doctors from Kolkata 37T

Scholars from Kolkata 99T

Scientists from Kolkata 166T
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Diana Shelstad

Australian mathematician

Overview: Diana Frost Shelstad (born August 19, 1947) is a mathematician known for her work in automorphic forms. She is a professor at Rutgers University–Newark. She earned her doctorate at Yale University in ...

Date of birth: 19 August 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Female

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21st-century women mathematicians 283T

20th-century women mathematicians 452T

Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 955T
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Priyanshi Somani

Indian mental calculator

Overview: Priyanshi Somani (born 16 November 1998) is the 2010 Mental Calculation World Cup winner.

Date of birth: 16 November 1998

Age: 25

Occupation: Mathematician

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Mental calculators 48T

People from Surat 89T

Women mathematicians 701T
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S. L. Loney

British mathematician

Overview: Sydney Luxton Loney, M.A. (16 March 1860 – 16 May 1939) was a Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, and a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He authored a number ...

Date of birth: 16 March 1860

Date of death: 16 May 1939

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Mathematician

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20th-century British mathematicians 353T

19th-century English mathematicians 129T

Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 77T
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Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak

Mathematician

Overview: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak was a mathematician whose research concerned balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions. She earned a Ph.D ...

Date of birth: 10 June 1938

Date of death: 12 February 2009

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Female

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Indian combinatorialists 13T

20th-century women mathematicians 452T

Indian women mathematicians 16T
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Annie Dale Biddle Andrews

Mathematician

Overview: Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (December 13, 1885 – April 14, 1940) was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Date of birth: 13 December 1885

Date of death: 14 April 1940

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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20th-century women mathematicians 452T

20th-century American women 4,137T

20th-century women scientists 1,930T
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Maryam Mirzakhani

Mathematician

Overview: Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی‎, 03 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller ...

Date of birth: 1 May 1977

Date of death: 15 July 2017

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Female

Partner: Jan Vondrák (Married)

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Iranian researchers 62T

Iranian Mathematics Competition Medalists 6T

Simons Investigator 53T
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Manjul Bhargava

Indo-Canadian mathematician

Overview: Manjul Bhargava FRS (born 8 August 1974) is a Canadian-American mathematician. He is the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, the Stieltjes Professor of Number ...

Date of birth: 8 August 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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Simons Investigator 53T

Indian number theorists 28T

American academics of Indian descent 111T
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Bartholomaeus Pitiscus

German astronomer and mathematician (1561–1613)

Overview: Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (also Barthélemy or Bartholomeo; August 24, 1561 – July 2, 1613) was a 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry ...

Date of birth: 1561

Date of death: 1613

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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16th-century male writers 845T

17th-century German mathematicians 42T

16th-century German mathematicians 43T
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Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya

Mathematician

Overview: Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (Russian: Ольга Александровна Ладыженская; 7 March 1922 – 12 January 2004) was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and ...

Date of birth: 7 March 1922

Date of death: 12 January 2004

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Female

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Steklov Institute of Mathematics faculty 6T

20th-century women mathematicians 452T

20th-century women scientists 1,930T
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August Beer

German scientist

Overview: August Beer (31 July 1825 – 18 November 1863) was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician of Jewish descent.

Date of birth: 31 July 1825

Date of death: 18 November 1863

Age: 38 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Mathematician

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19th-century German mathematicians 247T

1825 births 1,770T

German mathematicians 707T