René Descartes

René Descartes

male, deceased (1650)
mathematician, philosopher, stockholm, died 11.2.1650, died in stockholm, born 31.3.1596…geometrie
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650), also known as "Renatus Cartesius" (latinized form), was a highly influential French p...
Frans van Schooten

Frans van Schooten

male, deceased (1660)
seventeenth century, analytic geometry, 17th century, dutch, leiden, mathematician…geometrie
Franciscus van Schooten was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes. Van Schooten read D...
Michel Raynaud

Michel Raynaud

male, 71 years old
mathematician, Université de Paris-Sud, Manin-Mumford conjecture, Séminaire de géométrie algébrique, Abhyankar conjecture, Cole Prize
Michel Raynaud is a French mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He was born in Riom, France. Since 1967 he has been a professor at...
Michael Artin

Michael Artin

male, 75 years old
Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, deformation theory, moduli theory, topos theory, Artin approximation theorem, representable functor
Michael Artin is an American mathematician and a professor at MIT, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He is the son of Emil Artin....
Solomon Lefschetz

Solomon Lefschetz

male, deceased (1972)
Jewish, University of Nebraska, Princeton University, University of Kansas, mathematician, Jewish American
Solomon Lefschetz was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the...
Pierre Varignon

Pierre Varignon

male, deceased (1722)
l'Hôpital, Statics, Académie royale des sciences, Bernoulli, Berlin Academy, Collège Royal
Pierre Varignon was a French mathematician. Pierre Varignon was educated at the Jesuit College in Caen. After further studies at the University of...
Jules Richard

Jules Richard

male, deceased (1956)
Blet, 14 Oct, 12 Aug, Châteauroux, Cantor's diagonal argument, Sur la nature des axiomes de la géométrie
Jules Richard (* 12 Aug, 1862 in Blet, Département Cher, † 14 Oct, 1956 in Châteauroux, Département Indre, was a French mathematician.
Stephan Cohn-Vossen

Stephan Cohn-Vossen

male, deceased (1936)
English, Cohn-Vossen transformation, Geometry and the Imagination, Leningrad University, university of Breslau, Wrocław…Anschauliche Geometrie
Stefan or Stephan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, now best known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on the 1932 book "Anschauliche...
Moritz Pasch

Moritz Pasch

male, deceased (1930)
Pasch's axiom, elements, Geometer, peano, breslau, geometry…Vorlesungen über neure Geometrie
Moritz Pasch (8 November 1843, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) -- 20 September 1930 Bad Homburg, Germany) was a German mathematician s...
Charles de Bovelles

Charles de Bovelles

male
mathematician, French, Noyon, Géométrie en françoys, Carolus Bovillus
Charles de Bovelles (Carolus Bovillus was a French mathematician, and canon of Noyon. His "Géométrie en françoys" (1511) was the first sci...