List of mathematicians

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; died in 2017

## Bulgaria
*Lyubomir Ivanov, got the award, *Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize*, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics.

## 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; 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. 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, recognised 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
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