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 Premio 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 Vopenka, 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 Tjotta, 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 Erdos, 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
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