G. H. Hardy

G. H. Hardy

male, deceased (1947)
Old Cranleighan, Tripos Wranglers, FRS, Mathematical analyst, atheist, layman…Numbertheorist, Erdős number 2, number theory
Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 - December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in...
Andrew Wiles

Andrew Wiles

male, 56 years old
Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, Rolf Schock Prize laureate, briton, number theory, Merton College, Oxford, Fermat's last theorem…Erdős number 3, Numbertheorist
Andrew Wiles , Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, has been named one of 23 winners of 1997 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Wiles's...
Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat

male, deceased (1665)
Christian, Roman Catholic, amicable number, amicable, Differential Calculus, French…Numbertheorist, perfect number, Fermat number
Pierre de Fermat (August 17 1601-January 12 1665) was a French lawyer at the "Parlement" of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician who is given...
Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan

male, deceased (1920)
equation, mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, Bernoulli number, Kumbakonam…Numbertheorist, Erdős number 3
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (22 December 1887 - 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the greatest...
Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler

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

David Hilbert

male, deceased (1943)
Relativists, craters of the Moon named after them, German native of East Prussia, Functional Analysis, Mathematical analyst, contributor to general relativity…Numbertheorist, Erdős number 4
David Hilbert was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th...
Diophantus

Diophantus

male, deceased (298)
mathematician, Numbertheorist, ancient greek, hellenistic, greek, Hellenistic Egyptian…number theory
Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: b. between 200 and 214, d. between 284 and 298 AD), sometimes called "the father of algebra", was a Greek...
Fibonacci

Fibonacci

male, deceased (1250)
mathematician, sequence, Italian, leonardo pisano, Egyptian fraction, leonardo fibonacci…Numbertheorist
Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Leonardo Pisano, Leonardo Bonacci, Leonardo Fibonacci, or, most commonly, simply Fibonacci, was an Italian...
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

male, deceased (1855)
magnetism, electricity, Electrostatics, Gauß, Lutheran, From Braunschweig…Numbertheorist, number theory
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who c...
Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes

male
death by starvation, circumference of the earth, Geometer, Egyptian, Hellenistic Egyptian, Librarian of Alexandria…Numbertheorist
Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for...