Felix Klein

Felix Klein

male, deceased (1925)
Felix Christian Klein (April 25, 1849 - June 22, 1925) was a German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, function theory,...
Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe

male, deceased (1601) (Greenwich, United States)
Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman from the region of Scania (in modern-day Sweden), best known today as an early...
Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

male, deceased (1679)
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 - 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book "Leviathan" established the agenda for nearly all...
Euclid

Euclid

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

Anaximander

male
Anaximander (Ancient Greek: "'"') (c. 610 BCE-c. 546 BCE) was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia. He joined the...
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...
Sophus Lie

Sophus Lie

male, deceased (1899)
Marius Sophus Lie (December 17, 1842 - February 18, 1899) was a Norwegian-born mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry,...

Theaetetus

male
Theaetetus (ca. 417 B.C. - 369 B.C.) of Athens, son of Euphronius, of the Athenian deme Sunium, was a classical Greek mathematician. His principal...
Archimedes

Archimedes

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

Alfred Tarski

male, deceased (1983)
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who sp...