Michael Atiyah

Michael Atiyah

male, 80 years old
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (b. April 22, 1929) is a British-Lebanese mathematician, widely considered one of the greatest geometers of the...
Errett Bishop

Errett Bishop

male, deceased (1983)
Errett Albert Bishop was an American mathematician known for his work on analysis. He is the father of constructivist analysis, by virtue of his...
Atle Selberg

Atle Selberg

male, 92 years old
Atle Selberg (born in Langesund June 14, 1917) is a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of...

John Wilson

male, deceased (1793)
John Wilson was an English mathematician who had a theorem, Wilson's Theorem, named after him for its discovery from Ibn_al-Haytham, not its proof....
Georg Kreisel

Georg Kreisel

male, 86 years old
Georg Kreisel (born September 15, 1923 in Graz) is an Austrian-born mathematical logician who has studied and worked in Great Britain and America....

Pál Turán

male, deceased (1976)
Paul (Pál) Turán was a mathematician who made contributions in number theory, group theory and approximation theory. He proved one of the first ma...
Michel Balazard

Michel Balazard

male
Michel Balazard is a French mathematician. On June 3, 2004, he pointed out a flaw in a proposed proof of the Twin prime conjecture submitted by...
Laurent Lafforgue

Laurent Lafforgue

male, 43 years old
Laurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. in the Arithmetic and Al...

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...

Olivier Ramaré

male
Olivier Ramaré is a French mathematician who teaches at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille. In 1995, he proved that every even nu...