Archimedes

Archimedes

male
ancient roman, mathematics, physicist, mathematician, engineer, calculus
Archimedes of Syracuse was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer. Although little is known about his life, he is regarded as one...
Nicolas Bourbaki

Nicolas Bourbaki

male
mathematician, Association des collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki, rigour, 20th-century, set theory, Bourbaki group…mathematics
Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting...

Morris Kline

male, deceased (1992)
New York University, mathematician, mathematics, New York University alumni, Historian of mathematics, New York University faculty…Philosophy of mathematics
Morris Kline was a Professor of Mathematics, a writer on the history, philosophy, and teaching of mathematics, and also a popularizer of...
Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman

male, 75 years old
Nobel Laureate, Jewish American, Social psychologist, Princeton University faculty, Jewish, Israeli Defense Forces…mathematics
Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv), is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his pioneering work on...

Richard Hamilton

male, 66 years old
Columbia University, National Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Poincaré conjecture, Clay Research Award, Geometrization conjecture…mathematics, Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University
Richard Streit Hamilton is professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University. Robert Gunning...
Cleve Moler

Cleve Moler

male
matlab, Cleve Barry Moler, The MathWorks, Stanford University alumni, Kathryn Ann Moler, Erdős number 3…Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, mathematics
Cleve Barry Moler is a mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the...
Johan van Benthem

Johan van Benthem

male, 60 years old
M.H. Löb, Rijswijk, first-order logic, Master of Arts, Modal Logic, CSLI…mathematics
Johannes Franciscus Abraham Karel (Johan) van Benthem (Rijswijk, June 12, 1949-) is a University Professor ("universiteitshoogleraar") of logic at...
David Eisenbud

David Eisenbud

male, 62 years old (Berkeley, California, United States)
Harvard University, Erdős number 2, University of California, Berkeley faculty, MSRI, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, commutative algebra…mathematics
David Eisenbud (born 8 April, 1947) is an American mathematician. He is currently Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and a...
Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
finite speed, lenses, speed of light, electromagnetic, empiricism, electromagnetism…Islamic mathematics, mathematics
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
Persi Diaconis

Persi Diaconis

male, 64 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
Persi Warren Diaconis, "Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to its Lair", randomization, coin flipping, Persi W. Diaconis, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation…mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is Mary V. Sunseri professor of...