Title: List of mathematicians Content: This is a list of famous mathematicians. ==Australia== *Lily Serna, television presenter on Letters and Numbers (en) *Terence Tao ==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;http://gazeta.spm.pt/getArtigo?gid=115 died in 2017Circe Mary Silva da Silva, "Entrevista: Elon Lages Lima ", Revista Matemática Universitária, Number 33, December 2002, pp. 97–120. ==Bulgaria== *Lyubomir Ivanov, got the award, Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics.The Academician Nikola Obreshkov Prize for 1987 ==Chile== *Nicanor Parra, got the Cervantes Prize, the most important literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world ==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; 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; 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); died in 1871 * Alan Turing, he was important in the development of theoretical computer science, 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== * Eratosthenes * Euclid * Pythagoras ==Hungary== *Paul Erdős, published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed;According to , using the Mathematical Reviews data base, the next highest article count is roughly 823. 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; 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.E. Levi-Provencal, Chorfa, p. 231 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 ==Romania== *Solomon Marcus, recognisedEncyclopaedia 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. as an initiator of (, or one of the people that started) mathematical linguistics, and mathematical poetics; also a semiotician, he died in 2016 ==Russia== * Israel Gelfand * Leonid Kantorovich * Marina Ratner * Sofya Kovalevskaya * Vladimir Arnold ==Switzerland== * Leonhard Euler, was the first to show the notion of (or idea about), a mathematical function; 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== * List of mathematics topics * List of scientists * Mathematics * Timeline of women in mathematics ==Further reading== * * Category:Lists of scientists