G. H. Hardy

G. H. Hardy

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

Leonhard Euler

male, deceased (1783)
blind, mathematician, most prolific mathematician, numbertheory, oiler, mathematical analysis…graph theory, Number 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...
Andrew Wiles

Andrew Wiles

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

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

W. R.

male, deceased (2003)
William R. (Red) Alford, ph.d, Brain tumour death, Number theorist, University of Georgia alumni, united states air force…Erdős number 2, numbertheory, Erdős number
William R. (Red) Alford was an American mathematician who worked in the field of number theory. Born in Canton, Mississippi, he was a United States...
Diophantus

Diophantus

male, deceased (298)
mathematician, Number theorist, ancient greek, hellenistic, greek, Hellenistic Egyptian…numbertheory
Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: b. between 200 and 214, d. between 284 and 298 AD), sometimes called "the father of algebra", was a Greek...
E. M. Wright

E. M. Wright

male, deceased (2005)
mathematician, Number theorist, University of Aberdeen, English, graph theory, numbertheory…analytic number theory, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
Sir Edward Maitland Wright was an English mathematician, and collaborator with G.H. Hardy. He was the co-author of "An Introduction to the Theory...

Joseph H. Silverman

male
arithmetic dynamics, arithmetic geometry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, elliptic curve, Curriculum Vitae…numbertheory
Joe is a co-inventor of the NTRU public key cryptographic system. A Professor of Mathematics at Brown University since 1988, Joe has previously...

Henri Cohen

male
mathematician, Number theorist, French, Erdős number 2, numbertheory, Adleman-Pomerance-Rumely primality test
Henri Cohen is a number theorist who has contributed to improving the Adleman-Pomerance-Rumely primality test.
Serge Lang

Serge Lang

male, deceased (2005)
Beverly Hills High School, Columbia University faculty, University of Chicago, Princeton University, mathematician, Princeton University alumni…Number theorist, numbertheory
Serge Lang was a French-born American mathematician. He was known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the...