George Boole

George Boole

male, deceased (1864)
George Boole, (November 2, 1815 - December 8, 1864) was a British mathematician and philosopher. As the inventor of Boolean algebra, the basis of...

Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...
Georg Cantor

Georg Cantor

male, deceased (1918)
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia - January 6, 1918, Halle, Germany) was a German mathematician. He is...
Democritus

Democritus

male
Democritus (Greek:) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace ca. 460 BC). Democritus was a student of Leucippus and...
Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat

male, deceased (1665)
Pierre de Fermat (August 17 1601-January 12 1665) was a French lawyer at the "Parlement" of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician who is given...
Pythagoras

Pythagoras

male
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian (Greek) philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great...
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,...
Diophantus

Diophantus

male, deceased (298)
Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: b. between 200 and 214, d. between 284 and 298 AD), sometimes called "the father of algebra", was a Greek...
Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon

male, deceased (2001)
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of...
Bernhard Riemann

Bernhard Riemann

male, deceased (1866) (Guadeloupe)
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (pronounced "REE mahn" or in ; September 17, 1826 - July 20, 1866) was a German mathematician who made important...