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mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

s by nationality, ethnicity, religion, profession and other characteristics. Alphabetical lists are also available (see table to the right).

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List of American mathematicians This is a list of Americans, American mathematicians. List *James Waddell Alexander II (1888–1971) *Stephanie B. Alexander, elected in 2014 as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, for high-quality exp ...

List of African-American mathematicians The bestselling book and film, ''Hidden Figures'', celebrated the role of African-American women mathematicians in the space race and the barriers they had to overcome to study and pursue a career in mathematics and related fields. Although muc ...

List of Jewish American mathematicians This is a list of notable Jewish American mathematicians. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. * Abraham Adrian Albert (1905-1972), abstract algebra * Kenneth Appel (1932-2013), four-color problem * Lipman Bers (1914-19 ...

* List of Bengali mathematicians * List of Brazilian mathematicians *

List of Chinese mathematicians This is a list of Chinese mathematicians. With a history spanning over three millennia, Chinese mathematics is believed to have initially developed largely independently of other cultures. Classical * Jing Fang: 78 – 37 BC * Liu Xin: c. 50 BC ...

* List of German mathematicians *

List of Greek mathematicians A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...

** Timeline of ancient Greek mathematicians * List of Hungarian mathematicians *

List of Indian mathematicians Indian mathematicians have made a number of contributions to mathematics that have significantly influenced scientists and mathematicians in the modern era. One of such works is Hindu numeral system which is predominantly used today and is likely ...

List of Italian mathematicians A list of notable mathematicians from Italy by century: Ancient * Marcus Terentinus Varro * Boethius *Vitruvius 12th–15th centuries 12th century * Plato Tiburtinus 13th century *Guido Bonatti * Campano da Novara * Leonardo Fibonacci 14t ...

List of Iranian mathematicians The following is a list of Iranian mathematicians including Iranian peoples, ethnic Iranian mathematicians. A * Athir al-Din al-Abhari, Abhari (?–1262/1265) * Abu Nasr Mansur, Abu Nasr-e Mansur (c. 960–1036) * Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin (900–9 ...

* List of Jewish mathematicians * List of Norwegian mathematicians *

List of Muslim mathematicians Mathematics during the Golden Age of Islam, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries, was built upon syntheses of Greek mathematics (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius) and Indian mathematics (Aryabhata, Brahmagupta). Important developments of ...

List of Polish mathematicians A list of notable Poland, Polish mathematicians: References

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List of Russian mathematicians This list of Russian mathematicians includes the famous mathematicians from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. Alphabetical list __NOTOC__ A *Georgy Adelson-Velsky, inventor of AVL tree algorithm, developer of Ka ...

* List of Slovenian mathematicians * List of Ukrainian mathematicians *

List of Turkish mathematicians This is a list of WP:Notability, notable Turkish people, or the Turks, (Turkish: Türkler), who are an ethnic group primarily living in the republic of Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities have been es ...

* List of Welsh mathematicians

Lists by profession

* List of actuaries * List of game theorists *

List of geometers A geometer is a mathematician whose area of study is the historical aspects that define geometry, instead of the analytical geometric studies that becomes conducted from geometricians. Some notable geometers and their main fields of work, chr ...

List of logicians A logician is a person who studies logic. Some famous logicians are listed below in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surname). __NOTOC__ A * Peter Abelard (France, 1079–1142) * Wilhelm Ackermann (Germany, 1896–1962) * Sergei A ...

* List of mathematical probabilists *

List of statisticians This list of statisticians lists people who have made notable contributions to the theories or application of statistics, or to the related fields of probability or machine learning. It includes the founders of statistics and others. It includes ...

List of quantitative analysts This is a list of ''notable'' quantitative analysts (by ''surname''); see also § Seminal publications there, and List of financial economists. Pioneers * Kenneth Arrow, (1921–2017), American economist, Social choice theory. * Louis Bache ...

Other lists of mathematicians

List of amateur mathematicians This is a list of amateur mathematicians—people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics (or any similar discipline) yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics. *Ahmes (scribe) *Ashutosh Mukh ...

* List of mathematicians born in the 19th century *

List of centenarians (scientists and mathematicians) A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

* List of films about mathematicians * List of women in mathematics

External links

The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
nbsp;– Extensive list of detailed biographies * Th
Oberwolfach Photo Collection
nbsp;– Photographs of mathematicians from all over the world
Photos of mathematicians
nbsp;– Collection of photos of mathematicians (and computer scientists) made by Andrej Bauer.
Famous Mathematicians

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