Hipparchus

Hipparchus

male
Astrologer, craters of the Moon named after them, Astronomer, trigonometry, astrolabe, antiquity…mathematician
Hipparchus (Greek ; ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born...
Emmy Noether

Emmy Noether

female, deceased (1935)
Jewish, mathematician, German, Algebraist, einstein, Jewish person
Amalie Emmy Noether (March 23 1882 – April 14 1935) was a German-born Jewish mathematician, said by Einstein in eulogy to be "[i]n the judgment of...
Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

male, deceased (1695)
law of motion, Newton's laws of motion, Dutch Christian, New Latin author, Dutch music theorist, titan…mathematician
Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English : ; in Dutch:) (April 14, 1629 - July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist; born...
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Catholic, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, Muslim, Indian, Indian astronomy, Islamic astronomy…mathematician
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the...
John Dee

John Dee

male, deceased (1608)
hermes trismegistus, Astronomer, Geographer, mathematician, Occultist, Occult writer
John Dee was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted...
Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker

male, deceased (1806) (Maryland, United States)
African American, clock, caucasian race, Publisher, farm, colonies…mathematician
Benjamin Banneker, originally Banna Ka, or Bannakay (November 9, 1731-October 9, 1806) was a free African American mathematician, astronomer,...
Michael Atiyah

Michael Atiyah

male, 80 years old
Old Mancunian, lebanese, british humanist association, Atiyah-Singer index theorem, Order of Merit, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge…mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (b. April 22, 1929) is a British-Lebanese mathematician, widely considered one of the greatest geometers of the...
John Napier

John Napier

male, deceased (1617)
craters of the Moon named after them, gout, From Edinburgh, Laird, Alumni of the University of St Andrews, Christian…mathematician
John Napier of Merchistoun (1550 - 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchistoun, was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer/astrologer...
Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac

male, deceased (1984) (Houston, Texas, United States)
Dirac equation, Quantum Theory physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Florida State University faculty, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Florida State University…mathematician
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum...

Keith Devlin

male
Keith J. Devlin, Erdős number 2, Set theorist, Weekend Edition, Center for the Study of Language and Information, English…mathematician
Keith J. Devlin is an English mathematician and writer. He currently is Executive Director of Stanford University's Center for the Study of...