- male, deceased (1617)
- John Napier of Merchistoun (1550 - 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchistoun, was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer/astrologer...
- male, deceased (1630)
- Henry Briggs (February 1561-January 26 1630) was an English mathematician notable for changing Napier's logarithms into common/Briggesian...
- male, deceased (1567)
- Michael Stifel (1487 - April 19, 1567) was a German mathematician. He discovered logarithms and invented an early form of logarithm tables decades...
- male
- Michael Lacey is an American mathematician. Lacey received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987, under the...
- male, deceased (1632)
- Joost Bürgi, or Jobst Bürgi was a Swiss clockmaker and mathematician. He invented logarithms independently of John Napier, since his method is di...
- male, deceased (1985)
- Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 - September 30, 1985), was an American seismologist, born in Hamilton, Ohio. Richter is most famous as the...
- male, deceased (1882)
- William Shanks was a British amateur mathematician. Shanks is famous for his calculation of "π" to 707 places, accomplished in the year 1873, w...
- male
- Virasena was an 8th century mathematician in India who gave the derivation of the volume of a frustum by a sort of infinite procedure. He also...
- male, deceased (1821)
- Colonel Colin Mackenzie was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides,...
- male, deceased (1905)
- Martin Wiberg was born in Viby, Scania enrolled at Lund University in 1845 and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1850. He is known as a computer...
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