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2005 Serge Lang, Mathematician
1997 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at 94 1996 Paul Erdos, mathematician, dies of heart attack at 83 1996 Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50 1996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 1996 Gustave Solomon, mathematician, dies at 65 1995 Alonzo Church, American Mathematician 1994 Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55 1994 Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84 1994 John Britton, English Mathematician 1994 Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions), dies at 85 1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat 1993 Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician 1992 Leech, mathematician, dies 1990 Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution), dies 1989 Frank Adams, British Mathematician 1984 Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician 1983 Mirsky, mathematician, dies 1977 Marston Morse, American Mathematician 1974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66 1974 Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician 1972 Richard Courant, German/US mathematician, dies at 84 1970 Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79 1966 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician, dies at 85 1965 Eduard J Dijksterhuis, mathematician (Archimedes), dies at 72 1965 William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher, dies at 93 1964 Norbert Wiener, U.S. mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69 1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97 1962 Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician 1960 Oswald Veblin, mathematician 1959 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 1957 Leo Perutz, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938, dies in Bad Ischi, Austria 1956 Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88 1955 Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician 1954 Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41 1954 Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80 1951 Edward Witten, American Mathematician 1947 Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician 1947 Hardy, mathematician, dies 1947 G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician 1947 Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician 1946 James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69 1945 Michael Gerzon, mathematician 1945 Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician 1944 George D Birkhoff, U.S. mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60 1943 David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at 81 1941 Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79 1939 Dickstein, mathematician, dies 1939 Brian Hartley, mathematician 1939 [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician, dies at 86 1936 Karl Pearson, mathematician, dies 1935 Ronald Graham, American Mathematician 1935 Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch essayist/mathematician 1933 Paul, Prudent, Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies 1933 Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47 1932 Giuseppe Peano, mathematician, dies 1931 Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician 1931 William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies 1930 Frank Adams, British Mathematician 1929 ... Shatunovsky, mathematician, dies 1928 Steinitz, mathematician, dies 1928 John Forbes Nash, American Mathematician 1927 John Britton, English Mathematician 1927 Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician 1927 Serge Lang, Mathematician 1925 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Riemannsche Flachen), dies at 76 1925 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law 1924 Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26 1922 Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician 1920 Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician, Numbers Game 1920 Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90 1918 Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician 1918 Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72 1916 Milton Babbitt, U.S. mathematician/composer, Widow's Lament 1916 J. W. Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies 1913 Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies 1913 Paul Erdos, mathematician 1912 J-Henri Poincare, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58 1912 Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory, Turing Machine 1910 Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician 1909 Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician 1909 Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician, Regular Expressions 1908 Evert W. Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher 1908 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian 1906 Thomas G. Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer 1906 Max Zorn, German mathematician, lemma of Zorn 1906 Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician 1906 Andre Weil, Bourbaki, French/U.S. mathematician 1906 Kurt Godel, Austria, mathematician, Incompleteness Theorem 1905 Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director, OW&OC 1905 Laszlo Kalmar, born in Hungary, mathematician, discovered mathematical logic, founder, theoretical computer science in Hungary 1904 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin 1903 John von Neumann, mathematician and astronomer, Bocher Award 1938 1903 Alonzo Church, American Mathematician 1903 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies 1903 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician 1902 Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963 1902 Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician, theory of dimension 1902 Alfred Tarski, Warsaw, mathematician/logician 1902 Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 65 1901 Friedrichs, mathematician 1901 Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent), dies at 78 1899 M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56 1898 Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician 1897 James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician 1897 Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81 1895 Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies 1894 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38 1894 Norbert Wiener, U.S., mathematician/discovered cybernetics 1894 Dirk J Bush, Dutch/US mathematician, Concise History of Mathematics 1893 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83 1892 Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian, Fall and Throw 1892 Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician 1892 Marston Morse, American Mathematician 1891 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician 1890 Ferdinand Gonseth, Swiss mathematician/philosopher 1890 Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician 1888 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45 1888 Richard Courant, German/U.S. mathematician, What is mathematics? 1887 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies mathematician 1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician and mathematician 1885 Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician 1885 Alfred Haar, Hungary, mathematician 1884 George D. Birkhoff, U.S. mathematician, Aesthetic measure 1882 Arthur Eddington, born in England, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and mathematician 1882 Leo Perutz, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938 1882 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies 1881 Luitzen Brouwers, Dutch mathematician 1880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83 1880 Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician/astronomer, dies 1879 James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician 1879 William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician 1877 James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1877 Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75 1877 G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician 1877 Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician 1873 Julian Lowell Coolidge, Massachusetts, mathematician, Study-Segre school 1872 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78 1872 Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher, Nobel 1950 1871 William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher/educator 1871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator), dies at 78 1871 Augustus de Morgan, Indian Mathematician 1869 Libri, mathematician, dies 1868 Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies 1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 1867 Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher 1866 Charles-Jean Vallee-Poussin, mathematician, d'analyse 1866 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies 1865 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician, Taylor series 1865 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician 1864 George Boole, Irish Mathematician 1864 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician 1863 Paul [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier 1863 Paul P Painleve, French PM, 1917, 1925, mathematician 1862 David Hilbert, Konigsberg East Prussia, mathematician 1861 Friedrich Engel, German mathematician, group theory 1861 Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician/philosopher, Adv of Ideas 1860 Jano Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (parallel), dies at 57 1859 Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 1859 Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53 1858 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic 1858 Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Piemonte Italy, mathematician 1858 William Ernst Johnson, born in Cambridge, England, mathematician 1857 Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician and puzzle maker 1857 Karl Pearson, born in London, England, mathematician 1857 Pearson, mathematician 1856 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician, Stieltjes integral 1856 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81 1856 Andrey Markov, born in Russia, mathematician, Markov Chain 1855 August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75 1855 Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies 1854 Henri Poincare, France, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher 1853 Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician, tensor analysis 1852 Gustav Enestrom, Swedish mathematician 1852 [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician 1850 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician 1849 Felix Klein, German mathematician, Evanston Colloquium 1849 Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44 1848 Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician, Begriffsschrift 1845 William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician 1845 Georg Cantor, German mathematician, discover transfinite numbers 1844 Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies 1843 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies 1842 Marius Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, continous groups 1842 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, Le Hareng Saur 1840 Robert S. Ball, Irish mathematician and astronomer 1840 Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies 1840 Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician 1840 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89 1836 Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician 1836 Andre M Ampere, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies 1835 Simon Newcomb, U.S., scientist, mathematician and astronomer 1834 Karl W. Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33 1832 Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at 20 1832 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, Neumann-functions 1832 Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist, Nobel 1904 1831 J. W. Richard Dedekind, Germany mathematician, Nature and Meaning of Numbers 1831 James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician 1830 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education 1830 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies 1829 Niels H Able, Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26 1827 Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician 1826 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician, zeta-function 1826 Giuseppe Piazzi, monk, mathematician and discoverer, found 1st asteroid, dies at 80 1823 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, Tensor of Kronecker 1822 Charles Hermite, French mathematician, E is Transcendent 1819 George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician, spectroscope 1819 John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies 1815 George Boole, mathematician, Boolean algebra 1815 Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician, theory of functions 1814 James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician 1814 Ludwig Schlafli, Swiss vicar/mathematician 1812 Gopel, mathematician 1811 Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, Theory of G 1810 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician 1809 Hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician 1809 Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician and astronomer 1807 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 1806 Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74 1806 Augustus de Morgan, Indian Mathematician 1805 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician 1804 Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician, logistic curve 1803 Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician, Sturm's Theorem 1803 Gugliemo Libri, della Somaia, Italian/French mathematician/book collector 1802 Janos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician, non-Euclidean geometry 1802 Niels H Abel, Norwegian mathematician, Abel's Comparisons 1801 Antoine A. Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician, rule of Cournot 1801 Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist, Plucker formulas 1800 Karl W. Feuerbach, German mathematician, Position of Feuerbach 1799 Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (xy=a(a-y)), dies at 80 1798 Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist 1796 Adolphe Quetelet, born in Belgium, mathematician, astronomer, and statistician 1794 Germinal P Dandelin, Belgian mathematician, geometry 1794 Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician dies 1794 Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50 1794 Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer 1793 Michel Chasles, French mathematician, geometry 1792 ... Lobachevsky, mathematician 1790 August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor, Mobius strip 1789 Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician 1788 Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry 1783 Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician, Brianchon's theorem 1783 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66 1783 Leonhard Euler, mathematician, dies 1783 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, dies 1782 William Emerson, English Mathematician 1782 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch Mathematician 1781 Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician, Poisson verdeling 1781 Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician 1780 August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway 1777 Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49 1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician 1775 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungary, mathematician, parallel axiom 1773 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60 1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician, astronomer and author, Marine Sextant 1770 James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78 1768 Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80 1768 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician, Rights of Wallace 1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist 1764 Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies 1761 Budan de Boislaurent, mathematician 1761 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50 1758 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60 1752 Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals 1752 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47 1750 Doppelmayr, mathematician 1750 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician 1749 Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician 1748 John Playfair, born in Scotland, clergyman, geologist and mathematician 1746 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk, mathematician, and discoverer, discovers 1st asteroid, Ceres 1743 Jean-Marie Caritat, France, mathematician 1739 Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies 1737 Charles Hutton, mathematician 1736 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician 1736 Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician 1735 John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies 1731 J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 1731 Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott, Maryland, black mathematician/surveyor, Washington D.C. 1727 Isaac Newton, English Mathematician 1718 Maria G Agnesi, Italy mathematician curves= xy=a, a-y 1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician 1712 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician and astronomer 1710 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician, rules of Simpson 1707 Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician, Euler's Constant 1705 Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50 1704 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician, paradox of Cramer 1704 Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62 1703 John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies 1701 William Emerson, English Mathematician 1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch Mathematician 1700 Daniel Bernoulli, born in Basel, Switzerland, mathematician, 10 time French award 1698 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, born in France, mathematician and astronomer 1698 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, heliometer 1694 Mouton, mathematician, dies 1690 Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, Goldbach position 1687 Robert Simson, Scotland, mathematician 1685 Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem 1682 Rupert, prince of Palts/Admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician, dies at 62 1682 John Hadley, mathematician/inventor, 1st reflecting telescope 1679 Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45 1671 ... Keill, mathematician 1667 Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 1667 Jean Bernoulli, mathematician 1667 Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician, De Moivre's theorem 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies at 63 1655 Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1654 Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician 1653 Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician 1648 Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59 1643 Isaac Newton, born in Grantham, England, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer 1638 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 1637 Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies 1635 Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63 1626 Edmund Gunter, English Mathematician 1626 Willebord van Roijen, dutch mathematician, dies at 35 1626 Willebrord Snellius, astronomer/mathematician, dies at about 46 1623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer, Pascal 1619 Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician 1618 Francesco M. Grimaldi, mathematician and physicist, light defraction 1617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies 1617 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50 1616 John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer, product of Wallis 1612 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48 1608 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer 1605 Boulliau, mathematician 1603 Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63 1589 Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor, Dordrecht, mathematician 1588 Marin Mersenne, France, mathematician/musician/philosopher, Cartesian 1581 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist 1578 Pedro Nunes, Nonius, Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies 1576 Rheticus, mathematician, dies 1576 Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74 1574 William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor, slide rule 1571 Adrian A. Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect 1567 Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79 1567 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect 1563 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer 1561 Roomen, mathematician 1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician, Trigonometry 1557 Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies 1553 Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41 1552 Jobst Burgi, Justus Byrgius, Swiss/German mathematician 1527 John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician 1514 Rhaticus, Rheticus, Austrian astronomer/mathematician 1511 Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician, calculated planetary table 1501 Girolamo Cardano, born in Italy, mathematician and astrologer, Ars Magna-1545 1464 Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies 1131 Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies 1048 Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra 427 Plato, born in Athens, Greece, writer, philosopher, mathematician, laid foundations of natural philosophy, science, Western philosophy |
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