Pythagoras

Pythagoras

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Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian (Greek) philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great...
Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes

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Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for...
Euclid

Euclid

Euclid (Greek: "'), also known as Euclid of Alexandria"', was a Greek mathematician of the Hellenistic period who flourished in Alexandria, Egypt,...
Apollonius Of Perga

Apollonius Of Perga

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Apollonius of Perga [Pergaeus was a Greek geometer and astronomer, of the Alexandrian school, noted for his writings on conic sections. His...
David Hilbert

David Hilbert

male, deceased (1943)
David Hilbert was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th...

Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...
Archimedes

Archimedes

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Archimedes of Syracuse was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer. Although little is known about his life, he is regarded as one...

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

male, deceased (1733)
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (September 5, 1667 - October 25, 1733) was an Italian Jesuit priest and mathematician. Saccheri entered the Jesuit order...

John Smith

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John Smith was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1766 to 1797.
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...