Richard Dedekind

Richard Dedekind

male, deceased (1916)
Christian, From Braunschweig, mathematics, Number theorist, philosopher, German…AbstractAlgebra
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (October 6, 1831 - February 12, 1916) was a German mathematician who did important work in abstract algebra,...
Garrett Birkhoff

Garrett Birkhoff

male, deceased (1996)
Society of Fellow, Lattice theorist, Harvard University alumni, Society of Fellows, van der Waerden, A Survey of Modern Algebra…AbstractAlgebra
Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911, Princeton, New Jersey, USA – November 22, 1996, Water Mill, New York, USA) was an American mathematician. The so...
Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski

male, deceased (1983)
Polish-American, mathematical model, University of California, Berkeley, Warsaw University alumni, model, logic…AbstractAlgebra
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who sp...
Adrien-Marie Legendre

Adrien-Marie Legendre

male, deceased (1833)
"méthode des moindres carrés", least squares, classical mechanics, prime number, French, lagrangian…AbstractAlgebra
Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical...
Abraham Robinson

Abraham Robinson

male, deceased (1974)
from Wałbrzych, infinite, airfoil, German-American, infinitesimal, transfinite number…AbstractAlgebra
Abraham Robinson was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby...
Claude Chevalley

Claude Chevalley

male, deceased (1984)
sporadic groups, algebraic groups, classification of finite simple groups, algebraic geometry, number theory, simple group…AbstractAlgebra, Lie algebra, central simple algebra
Claude Chevalley was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic...
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

male, deceased (1996)
Historian of mathematics, University of Zurich, algebraic geometry, algebra, mathematics, Algebraist…AbstractAlgebra, Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden was a Dutch mathematician. Van der Waerden learned advanced mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and the...
Leonard Eugene Dickson

Leonard Eugene Dickson

male, deceased (1954)
Historian of mathematics, field, mathematician, University of Chicago alumni, University of Chicago faculty, Algebraist…AbstractAlgebra
Leonard Eugene Dickson (often called L. E. Dickson) was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract...
Richard Brauer

Richard Brauer

male, deceased (1977)
Jewish, Gorenstein-Walter theorem, Jewish American, Brauer's induction theorem, scientist, finite group theory…AbstractAlgebra
Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 - April 17, 1977) was a leading German and Jewish American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract...

Jean Dieudonné

male, deceased (1992)
mathematician, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, lille, World War I, French, Bourbaki…algebra, AbstractAlgebra
Jean-Alexandre-Eugène Dieudonné was a French mathematician, known for research in abstract algebra and functional analysis, for close involvement wi...