Hippasus

Hippasus

male
Hippasus of Metapontum, born ca. 500 B.C. in Magna Graecia, was a Greek philosopher. He was a disciple of Pythagoras. Hippasus (or Hippasos) is...
Johann Heinrich Lambert

Johann Heinrich Lambert

male, deceased (1777)
Johann Heinrich Lambert, was a German mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was born in Mülhausen (now Mulhouse, Alsace, France). His father w...
Mario Livio

Mario Livio

male, 64 years old
Mario Livio (born 1945) is an astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. He is currently Senior Astrophysicist...

Theaetetus

male
Theaetetus (ca. 417 B.C. - 369 B.C.) of Athens, son of Euphronius, of the Athenian deme Sunium, was a classical Greek mathematician. His principal...

Theodorus Of Cyrene

male
Theodorus of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician of the 5th century BC who was admired by Plato (who mentions him in several of his works, most...

Roger Apéry

male, deceased (1994)
Roger Apéry was a Greek-French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, to the effect that ζ(3) is an irrational number where ζ deno...

René-Louis Baire

male, deceased (1932)
René-Louis Baire was a French mathematician. He was born in Paris, France and died in Chambéry, France. Dogged by ill health, and spending time al...