Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

male, deceased (1662)
mathematician, physicist, philosopher, child prodigy, born 19.6.1623, born in clermont ferrand…probabilitytheory, Probability theorist
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was...
William Feller

William Feller

male, deceased (1970)
Catholic, Croatian-American, roman, Brown University faculty, Jewish American, croatian…Probability theorist, probabilitytheory
William (Vilim) Feller (July 7 1906 - January 14 1970), born Willibrord, was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

male, deceased (1827)
Laplace operator, Laplace's equation, Laplacian differential operator, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, mathematician, classical mechanics…probabilitytheory, Probability theorist
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and...
Abraham de Moivre

Abraham de Moivre

male, deceased (1754)
Huguenot, edict of nantes, mathematician, French, chess, calvinist…Probability theorist, probabilitytheory
Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France - November 27, 1754 in London, England; pronounced as) was a French m...
Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

male, deceased (1695)
law of motion, Newton's laws of motion, Dutch Christian, New Latin author, Dutch music theorist, titan…probabilitytheory
Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English : ; in Dutch:) (April 14, 1629 - July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist; born...
Richard von Mises

Richard von Mises

male, deceased (1953)
mathematician, logical positivism, Aeronautics, physicist, Vienna Circle, Austrian…probabilitytheory
Richard Edler von Mises (Lemberg 19 April 1883 - Boston, 14 July 1953) was a scientist who worked on fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics,...
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

male, deceased (1716)
Polymath, scientist, Christian in science, God, gottfried wilhelm leibniz, theology…probabilitytheory
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also "Leibnitz" or "von Leibniz" (July 1 (June 21 Old Style) 1646 – November 14 1716) was a German polymath who wrote mo...
Wendelin Werner

Wendelin Werner

male, 41 years old
Loève Prize, Fermat Prize, Fields Medal, random walk, Oded Schramm, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie…probabilitytheory
Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related...
John Allen Paulos

John Allen Paulos

male
numeracy, mathematical literacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Temple University, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, probabilitytheory
John Allen Paulos is an extensively kudized author, popular public speaker , and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com ( archived or current , the text...
I. J. Good

I. J. Good

male, 92 years old
Jesus College, Cambridge, Jewish, University of Manchester, Fish, probabilitytheory, Jesus College
Irving John (Jack) Good (born 9 December 1916) is a British statistician who worked also as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park. In his publications...