Serge Lang

Serge Lang

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

Alfred North Whitehead

male, deceased (1947)
Logician, Academic of University College London, American, logic, philosophy of science, principia mathematica…algebra
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15 1861, Ramsgate, Kent, England - December 30 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an English-born...
William Rowan Hamilton

William Rowan Hamilton

male, deceased (1865)
Hamilton's work, Old Westminsters, buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery, quantum mechanics, algebra, physicist
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 - September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important...
Victor Shoup

Victor Shoup

male
modern cryptographer, New York University, GNU, AT&T Bell Labs, Saarland University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences…algebra
Victor Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, and...
Benjamin Peirce

Benjamin Peirce

male, deceased (1880)
Christian, Harvard University, professor, mathematician, librarian, Number theorist…algebra, associative algebra
Benjamin Peirce, April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for forty years. He made co...
Grigore Moisil

Grigore Moisil

male, deceased (1973)
mathematician, electronic computers, Łukasiewicz-Moisil algebra, University of Iaşi faculty, differential equations, mathematical logic…algebra
Grigore C. Moisil was a Romanian mathematician and member of the Romanian Academy. His research was mainly in the fields of mathematical logic...
Gerolamo Cardano

Gerolamo Cardano

male, deceased (1576)
pavia, from the Province of Pavia, Ars magna, illegitimate, Black Death, Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia…algebra
Gerolamo Cardano or Girolamo Cardano (English Jerome Cardan, Latin Hieronymus Cardanus; September 24, 1501 - September 21 1576) was a celebrated...
Al-Karaji

Al-Karaji

male, deceased (1029)
binomial coefficients, Islamic mathematics, cubes, Pascal's triangle, mathematical induction, historian…algebra, Glorious on algebra
Al-Karaji was an engineer and mathematician of the highest calibre. His enduring contributions to the field of mathematics and engineering are...
Charles Hermite

Charles Hermite

male, deceased (1901)
craters of the Moon named after them, elliptic function, French, algebra, Algebraist, natural logarithm
Charles Hermite (December 24, 1822 - January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant...
Heinrich Weber

Heinrich Weber

male, deceased (1913)
mathematician, German, Number theorist, zurich, algebra, Algebraist…Lehrbuch der Algebra
Heinrich Martin Weber was a German mathematician who specialized in algebra and number theory. He is best known for his text "Lehrbuch der Algebra"...