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Abel, Neils Henrik

(1802–1829)

Agnesi, Maria Gaetana

(1718–1799)

Aiken, Howard Hathaway

(1900–1973)

(c. 245–c.190 BC)

(c. 287–212 BC)

(1768–1822)

(c. 320–c. 250 BC)

(1898–1962)

(980–1037)

(1792–1871)

(1939– )

(1731–1806)

(1630–1677)

(1835–1899)

Bernays, Paul (Isaak)

(1888–1977)

Bernoulli, Daniel

(1700–1782)

Bernoulli, Jacques (Jakob) 1654–1705 and Jean (Johann)

(1667–1748)

Bernstein, Jeremy

(1929– )

Betti, Enrico

(1823–1892)

Birkhoff, George David

(1884–1944)

Black, Max

(1909–1988)

Bode, Johann Elert

(1749–1826)

Bolyai

Bolzano, Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk

(1781–1848)

Boole, George

(1815–1864)

Borel, Emile Félix-Edouard-Justin

(1871–1956)

Briggs, Henry

(1561–1630)

Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan

(1881–1966)

Burali-Forti, Cesare

(1861–1931)

Burnside, William

(1852–1927)

Cajori, Florian

(1859–1930)

Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp

(1845–1918)

Carathéodory, Constantin

(1873–1950)

Cauchy, Augustin-Louis

(1789–1857)

Cayley, Arthur

(1821–1895)

Cesaro, Ernesto

(1859–1906)

Christoffel, Elwin Bruno

(1829–1900)

Church, Alonzo

(1903–1995)

Clifford, William Kingdon

(1845–1879)

Coolidge, Julian Lowell

(1873–1954)

Courant, Richard

(1888–1972)

Cramer, Gabriel

(1704–1752)

d'Alembert, Jean le Rond

(1717–1783)

Dantzig, George Bernard

(1914–2005)

Darboux, Jean Gaston

(1842–1917)

Dedekind, (Julius Wilhelm) Richard

(1831–1916)

Dehn, Max Wilhelm

(1878–1952)

De Morgan, Augustus

(1806–1871)

Descartes, René

(1596–1650)

Dickson, Leonard Eugene

(1874–1957)

Diophantus

(c.AD 270–280)

Dirichlet, (Peter Gustav) Lejeune

(1805–1859)

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge

(1832–1898)

Eilenberg, Samuel

(1913–1998)

Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler

(1876–1965)

(c. 276–194 BC)

(1913–1996)

(1878–1929)

(1707–1783)

(1906–1970)

(1601–1675)

(c. 1180–c. 1250)

Fisher, Ronald Aylmer

(1890–1962)

Fontana, Niccolò

Forsyth, Andrew Russell

(1858–1942)

Fourier, (Jean Baptiste) Joseph

(1768–1830)

Fraenkel, Abraham Adolf

(1891–1965)

Fredholm, Erik Ivar

(1866–1927)

Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob

(1848–1925)

Friedman, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich

(1888–1925)

Frobenius, (Ferdinand) Georg

(1849–1917)

Fuchs, Immanuel Lazarus

(1833–1902)

Galois, Evariste

(1811–1832)

Gauss, Carl Friedrich

(1777–1855)

Geber

(c. 721–c. 815)

Germain, Sophie (Marie)

(1776–1831)

Gödel, Kurt

(1906–1978)

Gosset, William Sealey

(1876–1937)

Grandi, Guido

(1671–1742)

Grassmann, Hermann Günther

(1809–1877)

Green, George

(1793–1841)

Hadamard, Jacques Salomon

(1865–1963)

Hall, Philip

(1904–1982)

Hamilton, William Rowan

(1805–1865)

Hankel, Hermann

(1839–1873)

Hardy, Godfrey Harold

(1877–1947)

Hausdorff, Felix

(1868–1942)

Heath, Thomas Little

(1861–1940)

Heine, Heinrich Eduard

(1812–1881)

Herbrand, Jacques

(1908–1931)

Hermite, Charles

(1822–1901)

Hilbert, David

(1862–1943)

Hogben, Lancelot Thomas

(1895–1975)

Jabir ibn Hayyan

(c. 721–c. 815)

Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob

(1804–1851)

Jeans, James Hopwood

(1877–1946)

Jordan, (Marie Ennemond) Camille

(1838–1922)

Klein, (Christian) Felix

(1849–1925)

Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolayevich

(1903–1987)

Kovalevskaya, Sofya Vasilevna

(1850–1891)

Kronecker, Leopold

(1823–1891)

Kummer, Ernst Eduard

(1810–1893)

Lagrange, Joseph Louis

(1736–1813)

Lakatos, Imre

(1922–1974)

Lamb, Horace

(1849–1934)

Laplace, Pierre Simon

(1749–1827)

Lebesgue, Henri Léon

(1875–1941)

Legendre, Adrien-Marie

(1752–1833)

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

(1646–1716)

Levi-Civita, Tullio

(1873–1941)

Lie, (Marius) Sophus

(1842–1899)

Lindemann, (Carl Louis) Ferdinand von

(1852–1939)

Liouville, Joseph

(1809–1882)

Lipschitz, Rudolf Otto Sigismund

(1832–1903)

Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich

(1792–1856)

Lorenz, Ludwig Valentin

(1829–1891)

Maclaurin, Colin

(1698–1746)

Mandelbrot, Benoît B.

(1924–2010)

Markov, Andrei Andreyevich

(1856–1922)

Minkowski, Hermann

(1864–1909)

Mises, Richard von

(1883–1953)

Möbius, August Ferdinand

(1790–1868)

(1667–1754)

(1746–1818)

(1844–1934)

(1895–1988)

(1550–1617)

(1642–1727)

(1882–1935)

(1844–1921)

(1899–1968)

(c.AD 300–350)

(1623–1662)

(1858–1932)

(1857–1936)

Picard, (Charles) Emile

(1856–1941)

Plücker, Julius

(1801–1868)

Poincaré, (Jules) Henri

(1854–1912)

Poisson, Siméon-Denis

(1781–1840)

Pólya, George

(1887–1985)

Poncelet, Jean-Victor

(1788–1867)

Pythagoras

Quetelet, (Lambert) Adolphe (Jacques)

(1796–1874)

Ramanujan, Srinavasa Ayengar

(1887–1920)

Ricci-Curbastro, Gregorio

(1853–1925)

Riemann, (Georg Friedrich) Bernhard

(1826–1866)

Ruffini, Paolo

(1765–1822)

Russell, Bertrand Arthur William

(1872–1970)

Seki Kowa

(c.1642–1708)

Shannon, Claude Elwood

(1916–2001)

Simpson, Thomas

(1710–1761)

Skolem, Thoralf Albert

(1887–1963)

Sommerville, Duncan MacLaren Young

(1879–1934)

Steiner, Jakob

(1796–1863)

Stieltjes, Thomas Jan

(1856–1894)

Sylow, Ludwig Mejdell

(1832–1918)

Sylvester, James Joseph

(1814–1897)

Tartaglia

(c. 1499–1557)

Theon of Smyrna

Thom, René Frédéric

(1923–2002)

Turing, Alan Mathison

(1912–1954)

Vandermonde, Alexandre-Théophile

(1735–1796)

(1834–1923)

(1540–1603)

(1860–1940)

(1903–1957)

(1616–1703)

(1842–1913)

Wedderburn, Joseph Henry Maclagan

(1882–1948)

Weierstrass, Karl Theodor Wilhelm

(1815–1897)

Weil, André

(1906–1998)

Weyl, Hermann

(1885–1955)

Whitehead, Alfred North

(1861–1947)

Whitehead, John Henry Constantine

(1904–1960)

Wiener, Norbert

(1894–1964)

Wilks, Samuel Stanley

(1906–1964)

Zassenhaus, Hans Julius

(1912–1991)

Zeeman, (Erik) Christopher

(1925– )

Zermelo, Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand

(1871–1953)

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