Fibonacci

Fibonacci

male, deceased (1250)
mathematician, sequence, Italian, leonardo pisano, Egyptian fraction, leonardo fibonacci
Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Leonardo Pisano, Leonardo Bonacci, Leonardo Fibonacci, or, most commonly, simply Fibonacci, was an Italian...
James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

male, deceased (1879)
Maxwell's equations, electricity, magnetism, mathematical physics, mathematician and theoretical physicist, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution…mathematician
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
Terence Tao

Terence Tao

male, 34 years old
Chinese American, Fellow of the Royal Society, From Adelaide, Chinese Australian, child prodigy, University of California, Los Angeles…mathematician
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic...
Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

male, 95 years old
Mathematical Games, recreational mathematics, Cellular automatists, mathematical game, Oklahoma writer, From Tulsa, Oklahoma…mathematician
Martin Gardner (b. October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational...
Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener

male, deceased (1964)
Jewish person, society, philosophy, mathematician, Harvard University alumni, Harvard University faculty
Norbert Wiener was an American theoretical and applied mathematician. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing...
John Allen Paulos

John Allen Paulos

male
numeracy, mathematical literacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Temple University, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, probability theory…mathematician
John Allen Paulos is an extensively kudized author, popular public speaker , and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com ( archived or current , the text...
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

male, deceased (2008) (Sri Lanka)
science fiction writer, 2001 A Space Odyssey, writer, Essayist, science-fiction, Futurist…mathematician
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel "2001: A Space...
Andrew Wiles

Andrew Wiles

male, 56 years old
Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, Rolf Schock Prize laureate, briton, number theory, Merton College, Oxford, Fermat's last theorem…mathematician, Research Mathematician
Andrew Wiles , Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, has been named one of 23 winners of 1997 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Wiles's...
Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart

male, 64 years old
Fellow of the Royal Society, Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge, Alumni of the University of Warwick, FRS, English, mathematics…mathematician
Ian Stewart, FRS (born 1945), is a professor of mathematics at University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

W. R.

male, deceased (2003)
William R. (Red) Alford, ph.d, Brain tumour death, Number theorist, University of Georgia alumni, united states air force…mathematician
William R. (Red) Alford was an American mathematician who worked in the field of number theory. Born in Canton, Mississippi, he was a United States...