Niels Henrik Abel

Niels Henrik Abel

male, deceased (1829)
Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician, was born in Nedstrand, near Finnøy where his father acted as rector. In 1815 he entered the cathedral s...
Charles Hermite

Charles Hermite

male, deceased (1901)
Charles Hermite (December 24, 1822 - January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant...
Adrien-Marie Legendre

Adrien-Marie Legendre

male, deceased (1833)
Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical...
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

male, deceased (1851)
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (December 10, 1804 - February 18, 1851) was a German mathematician, widely considered as the most inspiring teacher of his...
Francesco Brioschi

Francesco Brioschi

male, deceased (1897)
Francesco Brioschi was an Italian mathematician. Brioschi was born in Milan in 1824. From 1850 he taught analytical mechanics in the University of...

David Masser

male
David William Masser is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD from Cambridge University...
John Landen

John Landen

male, deceased (1790)
John Landen (23 January 1719 - 15 January 1790) was an English mathematician, He was born at Peakirk near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, and...
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev

Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev

male, deceased (1878)
Yegor (Egor) Ivanovich Zolotarev (March 31, 1847 – July 19, 1878) was a Russian mathematician. Yegor was born as a son of Agafya Izotovna Zo...

Leo Königsberger

male, deceased (1921)
Leo Königsberger was a German mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, w...
Friedrich Schottky

Friedrich Schottky

male, deceased (1935)
Friedrich Hermann Schottky was a German mathematician who worked on elliptic, abelian, and theta functions and invented Schottky groups. He was...