Viggo Brun

Viggo Brun

male, deceased (1978)
norwegian, mathematician, Number theorist, mathematics, twin prime, sieve of eratosthenes…Goldbach's conjecture, twin prime conjecture
Viggo Brun was a Norwegian mathematician. He studied at the University of Oslo and began research at the University of Gottingen in 1910. In 1923,...

William A. Stein

male, 35 years old
Erdős number 3, University of Washington, University of California, Berkeley alumni, University of Washington faculty, modular forms, modular form…Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
William Stein (born February 21, 1974 in Santa Barbara, California) is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. He is...

Bryan John Birch

male
Senior Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society, De Morgan Medal, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, Erdős number 2, Birch's theorem…Birch-Tate conjecture, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
Bryan John Birch F.R.S. (born 1931) is a British mathematician. His name has been given to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. As a doctoral...

Suren Arakelov

male, 62 years old
mathematician, Suren Yurievich Arakelov, Mordell conjecture, Steklov Institute, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow State University
Suren Yurievich Arakelov is a mathematician, best known for the influential theory that bears his name. Arakelov theory was exploited by Gerd...
Lev Schnirelmann

Lev Schnirelmann

male, deceased (1938)
Jewish, mathematician, Number theorist, Russian, soviet, Jewish person…Goldbach's conjecture
Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann, also Shnirelman, Shnirel'man (born January 2, 1905 in Gomel, died September 24, 1938 in Moscow) was a Soviet...
Gerd Faltings

Gerd Faltings

male, 55 years old
University of Bonn faculty, Fields Medalist, professor, mathematician, German, Number theorist…Mordell conjecture
Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry. From 1972 to 1978, he studied mathematics and physics...
Victor Kolyvagin

Victor Kolyvagin

male
City University of New York, mathematician, Number theorist, Russian, modular, American…Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Iwasawa's conjecture
Victor Kolyvagin is an Russian mathematician. He wrote a series of papers on Euler systems, leading to breakthroughs on the Birch and...

Olivier Ramaré

male
mathematician, prime number, French, mathematical proof, prime, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille…Goldbach's conjecture, Goldbach's weak conjecture
Olivier Ramaré is a French mathematician who teaches at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille. In 1995, he proved that every even nu...

H.A. Pogorzelski

male
mathematician, American, wittgenstein, CUNY, Henry Andrew Pogorzelski, Church–Turing thesis…Goldbach's conjecture
Henry Andrew Pogorzelski was a mathematician who circulated a proof of Goldbach's conjecture that is not accepted among mathematicians. According...
Lothar Collatz

Lothar Collatz

male, deceased (1990)
mathematician, German, University of Berlin, Varna, Collatz conjecture, Alfred Klose
Lothar Collatz was a German mathematician. In 1937 he posed the famous Collatz conjecture, which remains unsolved. Collatz studied at the...