Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs

male, deceased (1903)
physicist, Mathematicalanalyst, second law of thermodynamics, chemical thermodynamics, physical chemistry, Ph.D.…mathematical, American Mathematical Society
Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 - April 28, 1903) was a preeminent American mathematical-engineer, theoretical physicist, and chemist noted...
G. H. Hardy

G. H. Hardy

male, deceased (1947)
Old Cranleighan, Tripos Wranglers, FRS, Mathematicalanalyst, atheist, layman…mathematical analysis
Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 - December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in...
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

male, deceased (1827)
Laplace operator, Laplace's equation, Laplacian differential operator, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, mathematician, classical mechanics…Mathematicalanalyst, mathematical physics, mathematical astronomy
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and...
Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler

male, deceased (1783)
blind, mathematician, most prolific mathematician, number theory, oiler, mathematical analysis…Mathematicalanalyst, mathematical function
Leonhard Euler , the most prolific mathematician of all time, wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime about 800 pages per year...

Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Relativists, eidetic memory, Chaos theorist, principle of relativity, topologist, three-body problem…mathematical physics, Mathematicalanalyst
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...
Augustin Louis Cauchy

Augustin Louis Cauchy

male, deceased (1857)
Roman Catholic, French, mathematician, Alumni of the École Polytechnique, Mathematicalanalyst, Christian…mathematical physics, mathematical analysis
Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 - May 23,1857) was a French mathematician. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of...
Jacques-Louis Lions

Jacques-Louis Lions

male, deceased (2001)
stochastic processes, mathematician, stochastic control, Mathematicalanalyst, French, partial differential equation…International Mathematical Union
Jacques-Louis Lions was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control,...
David Hilbert

David Hilbert

male, deceased (1943)
Relativists, craters of the Moon named after them, German native of East Prussia, Functional Analysis, Mathematicalanalyst, contributor to general relativity…mathematical logic
David Hilbert was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th...
G. N. Watson

G. N. Watson

male, deceased (1965)
Old Pauline, Quintic equation, Treatise on the theory of Bessel functions, A Course of Modern Analysis, complex multiplication, asymptotic expansion…Mathematicalanalyst
(George) Neville Watson was an English mathematician, a noted master in the application of complex analysis to the theory of special functions. His...
Joseph Louis Lagrange

Joseph Louis Lagrange

male, deceased (1813)
from the Kingdom of Sardinia, from the Province of Turin, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Count of the First French Empire, Italian-French, French…Mathematicalanalyst, mathematical analysis
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l'Empire (January 25, 1736 - April 10, 1813; b. Turin, baptised in the name of "Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia") was...