Lorenzo Mascheroni

Lorenzo Mascheroni

male, deceased (1800)
Lorenzo Mascheroni was an Italian mathematician, born near Bergamo, Italy. At first mainly interested in the humanities (poetry and Greek... More
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William Shanks

William Shanks

male, deceased (1882)
William Shanks was a British amateur mathematician. Shanks is famous for his calculation of "π" to 707 places, accomplished in the year 1873, w... More
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Franz Mertens

Franz Mertens

male, deceased (1927)
Franz Mertens was a German mathematician. He was born in Środa in the Grand Duchy of Poznań, Kingdom of Prussia (now Środa Wielkopolska, Poland) and... More
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Joseph Ser

male
Joseph Ser (*1875) was a French mathematician, of whom little was known till now. He published 45 papers between 1900 and 1954, among which four... More
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Richard Brent

male, 62 years old
Richard Peirce Brent is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist, born in 1946. As of October 2005 he is an ARC Federation Fellow at the... More
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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan

male, deceased (1920)
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (22 December 1887 - 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the greatest... More
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