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Mathematics
 
 
Abel, Niels Henrik
Acarya
Alembert, Jean le Rond d’
Alhazen
Al-Khowarizmi
Apollonius of Perga
Archimedes
Babbage, Charles
Banach, Stefan
Banu Musa
Barrow, Isaac
Bayes, Thomas
Beltrami, Eugenio
Benedetti, Giovanni Battista
Bernoulli
Bhaskara
Birkhoff, Garrett
Birkhoff, George David
Bolyai
Bolzano, Bernard
Boole, George
Borel, Félix Édouard Émile
Bourbaki, Nicolas
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Bradwardine, Thomas
Briggs, Henry
Calderón, Alberto
Cantor, Georg
Cardano, Geronimo
Cartan, Élie Joseph
Cauchy, Augustin Louis, Baron
Cavalieri, Francesco Bonaventura
Cayley, Arthur
Ch’in Chiu-shao
Chuquet, Nicolas
Chu Shih-chieh
Clairaut, Alexis Claude
Clavius, Cristoph
Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de
Conon
Cournot, Antoine Augustin
D’Alembert, Jean le Rond
Darboux, Jean Gaston
Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard
de Moivre, Abraham
De Morgan, Augustus
Desargues, Gérard
Dickson, Leonard Eugene
Diophantus
Erdös, Paul
Euclid, Greek mathematician
Euler, Leonhard
Fermat, Pierre de
Fibonacci, Leonardo
Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron
Galois, Évariste
Gassendi, Pierre
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Germain, Sophie
Gödel, Kurt
Green, George
Gregory, James
Gunter, Edmund
Habash al-Hasib
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan
Harriot, Thomas
Hermite, Charles
Hero, Greek mathematician
Heron of Alexandria
Hilbert, David
Ibn al-Haytham
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob
John of Hollywood
Jungius, Joachim
Kircher, Athanasius
Klein, Christian Felix
Kovalevsky, Sonya
Kronecker, Leopold
Lagrange, Joseph Louis, Comte
Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Legendre, Adrien Marie
Leonardo da Pisa
Levi-Civita, Tullio
Lie, Marius Sophus
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich
Maclaurin, Colin
Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
Miller, George Abram
Minkowski, Hermann
Mittag-Leffler, Magnus Gösta
Möbius, Augustus Ferdinand
Moivre, Abraham de
Monge, Gaspard, comte de Péluse
Müller, Johannes von
Napier, John
Nash, John Forbes, Jr.
Nonius, Petrus
Nunes, Pedro
Painlevé, Paul
Pappus
Pascal, Blaise
Peirce, Benjamin
Plücker, Julius
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Poisson, Siméon Denis
Poncelet, Jean Victor
Ramanujan, Srinivasa
Regiomontanus
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
Sacrobosco, Johannes de
Shannon, Claude
Smith, Henry John Stephen
Snell, Willebrord
Snellius, Willebrord
Steiner, Jakob
Stevin, Simon
Sylvester, James Joseph
Tait, Peter Guthrie
Tartaglia, Niccolò
Taylor, Brook
Turing, Alan Mathison
Viète, François
Von Neumann, John
Wallis, John
Weaver, Warren
Weierstrass, Karl Wilhelm Theodor
Whitehead, Alfred North
Wiener, Norbert
Zygmund, Antoni
 
 
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