Edmond Halley

Edmond Halley

male, deceased (1742)
Edmond Halley FRS (sometimes "Edmund", November 8, 1656 - January 14, 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist,...
James Stewart

James Stewart

male
Professor James Stewart M.Sc, Ph.D is a Canadian professor emeritus of mathematics at McMaster University. Stewart received his M.S. at Stanford...
Simon Newcomb

Simon Newcomb

male, deceased (1909)
Simon Newcomb (March 12 1835 - July 11 1909) was an astronomer and mathematician. Born in the town of Wallace, Nova Scotia, Newcomb had a short...
Richard Dedekind

Richard Dedekind

male, deceased (1916)
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (October 6, 1831 - February 12, 1916) was a German mathematician who did important work in abstract algebra,...
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

male, deceased (1783)
Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the...
Paul Erdős

Paul Erdős

male, deceased (1996)
Paul Erdős, also Pál Erdős, in English Paul Erdos or Paul Erdös (March 26, 1913 - September 20, 1996), was an immensely prolific (and famously ecce...
Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu

male
Sun Tzu or Sun Zi was a Chinese mathematician, sometime between the third to fifth century CE. Interested in astronomy and trying to develop a...
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,...
Gilbert Strang

Gilbert Strang

male (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Gilbert Strang was an undergraduate at MIT and a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. His doctorate was from UCLA and since then he has...