List of mathematicians

This is a list of famous mathematicians.

Australia

Azerbaijan

Jalal Allakhverdiyev, member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (later called the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences); Mathematics; died in 2017

Brazil

Elon Lages Lima, got the award, the Prêmio Jabuti, twice;^[1] died in 2017^[2]

Bulgaria

Lyubomir Ivanov, got the award, Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics.^[3]

Chile

Nicanor Parra, got the Cervantes Prize, the most important literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world^[4]^[5]

China

Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Zi, known for authoring Sun Tzu Suan Ching (pinyin: Sun Zi Suan Jing; literally, "Sun Tzu's Calculation Classic"), which contains the Chinese remainder theorem.
Wu Wenjun, known for the Wu class and the Wu formula are named after him. In the field of automated theorem proving, he is known for Wu's method; died in 2017

Zhang Heng, made the first seismometer; Astronomy, engineering, meteorology, geology, philosophy, and mathematics; died in 139 A.D.

Croatia

Roger Joseph Boscovich, maker of a precursor of atomic theory; made the first geometric procedure for finding out the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position; discoverer of the absence of atmosphere on the Moon;^[6] he was from a city in what later became Croatia; died in 1787

Czechia

Petr Vopěnka, he developed Alternative set theory; died in 2015

Egypt

Euclid of Alexandria, known for Euclidean geometry, Euclid's Elements, Euclidean algorithm; died in the middle of 3rd century BC

Finland

Lars Ahlfors, known for his work of complex analysis

France

Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, the first female mathematical sciences professor in Norway;^[7] Applied mathematics, she died in 2017
Sophie Germain

Germany

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Great Britain

England

Charles Babbage, credited with inventing the first mechanical computer (or analytical engine);^[8]^[9] died in 1871

Alan Turing, he was important in the development of theoretical computer science,^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13] and is known for the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer; died in 1954
Andrew Wiles, proved Fermat's Last Theorem; his field is Number theory
Lucy Joan Slater, her field is mathematical functions
James H. Wilkinson, his field is numerical analysis

Greek

Hungary

Paul Erdős, published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed;^[14] died 1996
Peter Lax (American mathematician born in Hungary)

India

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Italy

Gerolamo Cardano, he invented - partially - the gimbal consisting of three concentric rings allowing a supported compass or gyroscope to rotate freely, and the Cardan shaft;^[15] died in 1576

Iran

Maryam Mirzakhani - first woman to receive the Fields Medal; she died in 2017

Japan

Goro Shimura - expert of number theory
Hiroshi Umemura - former professor at Nagoya University
Kiyoshi Oka - former professor at Kyoto University
Kyuya Masuda
Masaaki Sugihara - former professor at the University of Tokyo
Masao Iri
Masatake Mori
Ryogo Hirota - former professor at Waseda University
Shinichi Oishi

Morocco

Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi, wrote Meknes's history and a commentary to the treatise of Ibn al-Banna; a work that explained the mentioned work, was named ["The desire of students for an explanation of the calculator's craving"] Bughyat al-tulab fi sharh munyat al-hussab (including, arithmetic and algebraic methods.^[16] died in 1513

Norway

Niels Henrik Abel, did the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation (en) in radicals; died in 1829 ^[17]

Romania

Solomon Marcus, recognised^[18]^[19]^[20] as an initiator of (, or one of the people that started) mathematical linguistics, and mathematical poetics; also a semiotician, he died in 2016

Russia

Switzerland

Leonhard Euler, was the first to show the notion of (or idea about), a mathematical function; ^[21] died in 1783

Syria

Al-Battani, known for showing several relations within trigonometry; he lived and worked in a city that now belongs to Syria; died in 929

Ukraine

Leonid Plyushch, died in 2015

Related pages

↑ http://gazeta.spm.pt/getArtigo?gid=115
↑ Circe Mary Silva da Silva, "Entrevista: Elon Lages Lima Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine", Revista Matemática Universitária, Number 33, December 2002, pp. 97–120.
↑ The Academician Nikola Obreshkov Prize for 1987
↑ "Nicanor Parra awarded Cervantes Prize". BBC News. 1 December 2011.
↑ Rodriguez M., Javier (1 December 2011). "El poeta chileno Nicanor Parra, premio Cervantes". El Pais. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
↑ Энциклопедия для детей (астрономия). Москва: Аванта+. 1998. ISBN 978-5-89501-016-7.
↑ Berntsen, Jarle; Lunde, Per (16 March 2017). "Nekrolog: Jacqueline Andreè Naze Tjøtta". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 26 March 2017.
↑ Copeland, B. Jack (Dec 18, 2000). "The Modern History of Computing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
↑ Newman, M.H.A. (1948). 'General Principles of the Design of All-Purpose Computing Machines'. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series A, 195. pp. 271–274.
↑ Newman, M. H. A. (1955). "Alan Mathison Turing. 1912–1954". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 253–263. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0019. JSTOR 769256. S2CID 711366.
↑ Gray, Paul (29 March 1999). "Alan Turing – Time 100 People of the Century". Time. Archived from the original on 19 January 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2017. Providing a blueprint for the electronic digital computer. The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine.
↑ Sipser 2006, p. 137
↑ Beavers 2013, p. 481
↑ According to "Facts about Erdös Numbers and the Collaboration Graph"., using the Mathematical Reviews data base, the next highest article count is roughly 823.
↑ Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study. Dodo Press. January 2009. ISBN 9781409959595.
↑ E. Levi-Provencal, Chorfa, p. 231
↑ "The Biography of Niels Henrik Abel: His last years". www.abelprize.no. Archived from the original on 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
↑ Encyclopaedia Unversalis (French), vol. 9, 1971, p. 1057-1059, and vol. 13, 1989, p. 837.
↑ Brokhaus Encyclopedie (German), XVIIth improved edition, vol. 12, MAI-MOS, Wiesbaden, 1971, p. 255-256.
↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, vol. 15, Macmillan, New York-London, 1977, p. 568-569.
↑ Dunham 1999, p. 17

[1] ttp://gazeta.spm.pt/getArtigo?gid=115

[2] Circe Mary Silva da Silva, "Entrevista: Elon Lages Lima Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine", Revista Matemática Universitária, Number 33, December 2002, pp. 97–120.

[3] The Academician Nikola Obreshkov Prize for 1987

[4] "Nicanor Parra awarded Cervantes Prize". BBC News. 1 December 2011.

[5] Rodriguez M., Javier (1 December 2011). "El poeta chileno Nicanor Parra, premio Cervantes". El Pais. Retrieved 1 December 2011.

[6] Энциклопедия для детей (астрономия). Москва: Аванта+. 1998. ISBN 978-5-89501-016-7.

[ap-7] Berntsen, Jarle; Lunde, Per (16 March 2017). "Nekrolog: Jacqueline Andreè Naze Tjøtta". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 26 March 2017.

[babb-8] Copeland, B. Jack (Dec 18, 2000). "The Modern History of Computing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 1 March 2017.

[9] Newman, M.H.A. (1948). 'General Principles of the Design of All-Purpose Computing Machines'. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series A, 195. pp. 271–274.

[frs-10] Newman, M. H. A. (1955). "Alan Mathison Turing. 1912–1954". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 253–263. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0019. JSTOR 769256. S2CID 711366.

[AFP-11] Gray, Paul (29 March 1999). "Alan Turing – Time 100 People of the Century". Time. Archived from the original on 19 January 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2017. Providing a blueprint for the electronic digital computer. The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine.

[12] Sipser 2006, p. 137

[13] Beavers 2013, p. 481

[14] According to "Facts about Erdös Numbers and the Collaboration Graph"., using the Mathematical Reviews data base, the next highest article count is roughly 823.

[15] Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study. Dodo Press. January 2009. ISBN 9781409959595.

[16] E. Levi-Provencal, Chorfa, p. 231

[LastYears-17] "The Biography of Niels Henrik Abel: His last years". www.abelprize.no. Archived from the original on 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2017-09-15.

[18] Encyclopaedia Unversalis (French), vol. 9, 1971, p. 1057-1059, and vol. 13, 1989, p. 837.

[19] Brokhaus Encyclopedie (German), XVIIth improved edition, vol. 12, MAI-MOS, Wiesbaden, 1971, p. 255-256.

[20] Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, vol. 15, Macmillan, New York-London, 1977, p. 568-569.

[function-21] Dunham 1999, p. 17

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List of mathematicians

Contents

Australia

Azerbaijan

Brazil

Bulgaria

Chile

China

Croatia

Czechia

Egypt

Finland

France

Germany

Great Britain

England

Greek

Hungary

India

Italy

Iran

Japan

Morocco

Norway

Romania

Russia

Switzerland

Syria

Ukraine

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