- Serge Lang
Serge Lang was a French-born American mathematician. He was known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential "Algebra". He was a member of the Bourbaki group. He was born in Paris in 1927, and moved with his family to California as a teenager, where he graduated in 1943 from Beverly Hills High School. He subsequently graduated from Caltech in 1946, and received a doctorate from Princeton University in 1951. - Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15 1861, Ramsgate, Kent, England - December 30 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an English-born mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. With Bertrand Russell, he coauthored the epochal "Principia Mathematica". - William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 - September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation. Hamilton's work was later significant in the development of quantum mechanics. Hamilton is said to have showed immense talent at a very early age, prompting astronomer Bishop Dr. - Victor Shoup
Victor Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, and is currently a Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He has previously held positions at AT&T Bell Labs, the University of Toronto, Saarland University, and the IBM Zurich Research Lab. Shoup's main research interests are computer algorithms relating to number theory, algebra, … - Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Peirce, April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for forty years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics. After graduating from Harvard, he became a tutor there (1829), then was appointed professor of mathematics in 1831. He added astronomy to his portfolio in 1842, and remained as Harvard professor until his death. - Grigore Moisil
Grigore C. Moisil was a Romanian mathematician and member of the Romanian Academy. His research was mainly in the fields of mathematical logic (Łukasiewicz-Moisil algebra), algebra and differential equations. He also had an important contribution to the introduction of the first electronic computers in Romania. Moisil was also a member of the Academy of Sciences in Bologna and of the International Institute of Philosophy. - Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo Cardano or Girolamo Cardano (English Jerome Cardan, Latin Hieronymus Cardanus; September 24, 1501 - September 21 1576) was a celebrated Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer, and gambler. He was born in Pavia, Italy, the illegitimate child of Fazio Cardano, a mathematically gifted lawyer who was a friend of Leonardo da Vinci. - Al-Karaji
Al-Karaji was an engineer and mathematician of the highest calibre. His enduring contributions to the field of mathematics and engineering are still recognized today in the form of the table of binomial coefficients, its formation law: :<math> {n choose mn-1 choose m-1} + {n-1 choose m} </math> and the expansion: :<math>(a+b)^n=sum_{k=0}^n{n choose k}a^kb^{n-k}<;/math> for integer n. Al-Karaji wrote about the work of earlier mathematicians, … - Charles Hermite
Charles Hermite (December 24, 1822 - January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. Hermite polynomials, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor. One of his students was Henri Poincaré. He was the first to prove that "e", the base of natural logarithms, is a transcendental number. - Heinrich Weber
Heinrich Martin Weber was a German mathematician who specialized in algebra and number theory. He is best known for his text "Lehrbuch der Algebra" published in 1895 and it is his work in algebra and number theory. Weber was born in Heidelberg and entered the University of Heidelberg in 1860. In 1866 he became a privatdozent, and in 1869 he was appointed as extraordinary professor at that school. Weber also taught in Zurich at the Federal Polytechnic Institute, … - Jean Dieudonné
Jean-Alexandre-Eugène Dieudonné was a French mathematician, known for research in abstract algebra and functional analysis, for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and the "Éléments de géométrie algébrique" project of Alexander Grothendieck, and as a historian of mathematics, particularly in the fields of functional analysis and algebraic topology. - Rafael Bombelli
Rafael Bombelli was an Italian mathematician. Born in Bologna, he is the author of a treatise on algebra and is a central figure in the understanding of imaginary numbers. Bombelli used a method related to continued fractions to calculate square roots. His method for finding <math> sqrt{nmath> sets <math> n=(apm r)^2=a^2pm 2ar+r^2 </math> with <math> 0<r<1 </math> from which it can be shown that <math> r=frac{|n-a^2|}{2apm r}</math>. - Ken Ono
Ken Ono is an American mathematician who specializes in number theory, especially in integer partitions, modular forms, and the fields of interest to Srinivasa Ramanujan. He is currently the Manasse Professor of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin. He received his BA from the University of Chicago in 1989, and he received his PhD in 1993 at UCLA where his advisor was Basil Gordon. - George Lusztig
George (Gheorghe) Lusztig is a Romanian-born American mathematician. He is a Norbert Wiener Professor at the Department of Mathematics, MIT. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest. He left Romania for the United States, where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His early work was on the index theory of elliptic operators, … - Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville (December 26, 1780 - November 28, 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged. She was the daughter of Admiral Sir William George Fairfax, and was born at the manse of Jedburgh, in the Borders, the house of her mother's sister, wife of Dr Thomas Somerville (1741-1830), author of "My Own Life and Times", whose son would become Mary's second husband. - Adam Ries
Adam Ries was a German mathematician. He is better known by the name Adam Riese; scientists and historians however point out that the correct spelling of his name is Ries. A native of Staffelstein in Franconia, Ries worked, among other places, in Erfurt and Annaberg, where he headed schools of mathematics. He published three books on calculation: A fourth book of his, "Coss" (1524) on Algebra could not be published when it was written. - Muhammad Ibn Mūsā Al-Khwārizmī
"'"' was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm (now Khiva, Uzbekistan) and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. His "Algebra" was the first book on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Consequently he is considered to be the father of algebra, a title he shares with Diophantus. - Robert Of Chester
Robert of Chester was an English arabist who flourished around 1150. He translated several historically important books from Arabic to Latin, by authors such as Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan and Al-Khwarizmi including: *"Liber algebrae et almucabala" Al-Khwārizmī's book about algebra translated in 1145 * "Liber de compositione alchimiae" a book about alchemy translated in 1144 In the 1140s Robert worked in Spain, … - Michel van den Bergh
Michel Van den Bergh is a Belgian mathematician and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and does research at the Universiteit Hasselt (UH). His research interest is on the fundamental relation between algebra and geometry. In 2003, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences. - Louis Kauffman
Louis Kauffman is a topologist, whose work is primarily in knot theory and connections with statistical mechanics, quantum theory, algebra, combinatorics and foundations. He is currently Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kauffman introduced and developed the bracket polynomial and Kauffman polynomial. Kauffman received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1972. - Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden was a Dutch mathematician. Van der Waerden learned advanced mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Göttingen, from 1919 until 1926. He was much influenced by Emmy Noether at Göttingen. Amsterdam awarded him a Ph.D. for a thesis on algebraic geometry, supervised by Hendrik de Vries. Göttingen awarded him the habilitation in 1928. In his 27th year, Van der Waerden published his "Algebra", … - Zhu Shijie
Zhu Shijie (mid-1270s?-1330?) also known as Chu Shih-Chieh was one of the greatest Chinese mathematicians. Little is known about his life, but two of his mathematical works have survived. "Introduction to Computational Studies" 《算学启蒙》, written in 1299, is an elementary textbook on mathematics. Zhu included about 260 problems to explain operations in arithmetic and algebra. - Andrei Suslin
Andrei Suslin (sometimes transliterated Souslin) is a Russian mathematician who makes major contributions to the field of algebra, especially algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. He is currently a Trustee Chair and Professor of mathematics at Northwestern University. He was born on December 27, 1950, in St. Petersburg, Russia. - Markus Rost
Markus Rost is a German mathematician who works at the intersection of topology and algebra. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002 in Beijing, China. He is a professor at the University of Bielefeld. He is known for his work on norm varieties (related to the Bloch-Kato conjecture) and for the Rost invariant. Many of his results are unpublished, and are available only on his webpage. - Ernst Witt
Ernst Witt was a German mathematician born on the island of Als, (German: "Alsen"). Shortly after his birth, he and his parents moved to China, and he didn't return to Europe until he was nine. After his schooling, Witt went to the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, and Göttingen, where he became a lecturer. From 1937 until 1979, he taught at the university of Hamburg. He died in Hamburg in 1991. - Frank Morley
Frank Morley was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his research into algebra and geometry. Among his accomplishments was his discovery and proof of the celebrated Morley's trisector theorem in elementary plane geometry. Morley was born in the town of Woodbridge in Suffolk, England. His parents were Elizabeth Muskett and Joseph Roberts Morley, Quakers who ran a china shop. Morley received his Sc.D. degree from Cambridge University and moved to Pennsylvania in 1887. - Geir Ellingsrud
Geir Ellingsrud (born November 29 1948) is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oslo, where he specialises in Algebra and Algebraic geometry. In 2005 Ellingsrud was appointed to be Rector of the University of Oslo. - Mikhail Gromov
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Russian: Михаил Леонидович Громов (born December 23, 1943, also known as Mikhael Gromov, Michael Gromov, or Misha Gromov) is a mathematician known for important contributions in many different areas of mathematics. He is considered a geometer in a very broad sense of the word. His style of geometry features a "coarse" or "soft" viewpoint, often analyzing asymptotic or large-scale properties. - Madhava Of Sangamagrama
Madhavan of Sangamagrama (1350-1425) was a prominent Hindu mathematician-astronomer from Kerala, India. He was the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics and is considered the founder of mathematical analysis for having taken the decisive step from the finite procedures of ancient mathematics to treat their limit-passage to infinity, which is the kernel of modern classical analysis. - Dan Segal
Daniel Segal is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He specialises in algebra and group theory. He originally studied at the University of Cambridge, before taking a PhD at the University of London in 1972, supervised by Bertram Wehrfritz, with a dissertation on group theory. He is currently a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, where he is sub-warden. - Wilhelm Jordan
Wilhelm Jordan (March 1 1842 - April 17 1899) was a German geodesist who did surveys in Germany and Africa and founded the German geodesy journal. Jordan was borm in Ellwangen a small town in Southern Germany. He studied at the polytechnic institute in Stuttgart and, after working for two years as an engineering assistant on the prelimary stages of railway construction, he returned there as an assistant in geodesy. In 1868, when he was only 26 years old, … - Nilakantha Somayaji
Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544), from Kerala, was a major Indian mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics and was a student of Damodara. Later, he lived in Tryambakeshwar. Among his many influential books, he wrote the comprehensive astronomical treatise "Tantrasamgraha" in 1501. He also wrote the "Aryabhatiya Bhasya", which contains work on infinite series expansions, problems of algebra, spherical geometry, … - Ruth Moufang
Ruth Moufang (1905-1977) was a German mathematician. Her research in projective geometry built upon the work of David Hilbert. She obtained her doctorate in 1931 under direction of Max Dehn. She was responsible for ground-breaking work on non-associative algebraic structures, including the Moufang loops named after her. - Traian Lalescu
Traian Lalescu (July 12, 1882, Bucharest-June 15, 1929, Bucharest) was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. - Bento de Jesus Caraça
Bento de Jesus Caraça, <small>GCSE, GOL</small> By November 1 of 1919, being a student of the 2nd year of its course, Caraça was nominated 2nd assistant by his teacher Mira Fernandes. He graduated in 1923. In December 13 of 1924, he was nominated 1st assistant and, in October 14 of 1927 he was nominated professor and in December 28 of 1929 he was nominated cathedratic professor, teaching algebra and infinitesimal calculus. - Teiji Takagi
Teiji Takagi was a Japanese mathematician, best known for proving the Takagi existence theorem in class field theory. He was born in the mountainous and rural region of Gifu, Japan. He began learning mathematics in middle school, reading texts in English since none were available in Japanese. After attending a high school for gifted students, he went on to the University of Tokyo, at that time the only university in Japan. - Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes (April 11, 1862 - August 27, 1948) was Governor of New York, United States Secretary of State, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. - José Anastácio da Cunha
José Anastácio da Cunha was a Portuguese mathematician. He is best known for his work on the theory of equations, algebraic analysis, plain and spherical trigonometry, analytical geometry, and differential calculus. - Henry Burchard Fine
Henry Burchard Fine (1858-1928) was an American university dean and mathematician. He was born at Chambersburg, Pa., and was educated at Princeton (A.B., 1880) and Leipzig (Ph.D., 1885) universities. At Princeton he was assistant professor (1885-'90), then became professor in 1890, and he also was dean of the faculty in 1903-'12 and dean of the department of science after 1909. He was president of the American Mathematical Society in 1911-'12. - Abū Kāmil Shujā Ibn Aslam
"'"' (c. 850 – c. 930) for short, was an Egyptian mathematician during the Islamic Golden Age. He has also been called "al-Hasib al-Misri"-literally, "the Egyptian calculator." Unlike the many polymaths of this era-notably al-Khwarizmi, al-Kindi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna in the West), and Ibn Rushd (Averroes)-Abu Kamil was a specialist. His field was algebra.
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