Biographies: Selected Mathematicians and Statisticians

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Selected Mathematicians and Statisticians

Abel, Niels Henrik, Norwegian mathematician
Achenwall, Gottfried, German statistician and political scientis
Alembert, Jean le Rond d', French mathematician and philosopher
Al-Khowarizmi, Arab mathematician
Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician of the Alexandrian school
Archimedes, Greek mathematician
Babbage, Charles, English mathematician and inventor
Banach, Stefan, Polish mathematician
Banu Musa, family of Arab mathematicians and astronomers
Barrow, Isaac, English mathematician and theologian
Beltrami, Eugenio, Italian mathematician
Benedetti, Giovanni Battista, Italian mathematician and physicist
Bernoulli, family of mathematicians and scientists
Bhaskara, Indian mathematician and astronomer
Birkhoff, Garrett, American mathematician
Birkhoff, George David, American mathematician
Bolyai, family of Hungarian mathematicians
Bolzano, Bernard, Czech philosopher
Boole, George, English mathematician and logician
Briggs, Henry, English mathematician
Calderón, Alberto, Argentine mathematician
Cantor, Georg, German mathematician
Cardano, Geronimo, Italian physician and mathematician
Cartan, Élie Joseph, French mathematician
Cauchy, Augustin Louis, Baron, French mathematician
Cavalieri, Francesco Bonaventura, Italian mathematician
Cayley, Arthur, English mathematician
Chern, Shiing-Shen, Chinese-American mathematician
Ch'in Chiu-shao, Chinese mathematician
Chu Shih-chieh, Chinese mathematician
Chuquet, Nicolas, French mathematician
Cournot, Antoine Augustin, French mathematician and economist
De Morgan, Augustus, English mathematician and logician
Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard, French mathematician
Dee, John, German mathematician
Desargues, Gérard, French mathematician and engineer
Descartes, René, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Dickson, Leonard Eugene, American mathematician
Diophantus, Greek algebraist
Erdös, Paul, Hungarian mathematician
Euclid, Greek mathematician
Euler, Leonhard, Swiss mathematician
Fermat, Pierre de, French mathematician
Fibonacci, Leonardo, French mathematician
Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, English statistician and geneticist
Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, English statistician and geneticist
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron, French mathematician and physicist
Frege, Gottlob, German philosopher and mathematician
Gödel, Kurt, American mathematician and logician
Galileo, Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist
Gallup, George Horace, American public opinion statistician, originator of the Gallup poll
Galois, Évariste, French mathematician
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, German mathematician
Germain, Sophie, French mathematician
Grassmann, Hermann Gunther, American mathematician and logician
Gunter, Edmund, English mathematician and astronomer
Habash al-Hasib, Arab mathematician and astronomer
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan, Irish mathematician and astronomer
Harriot, Thomas, English mathematician and astronomer
Hermite, Charles, French mathematician
Heron of Alexandria, Greek mathematician
Hilbert, David, German mathematician
Ibn al-Haytham, Arab mathematician
Jeans, Sir James Hopwood, English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
Kakutani, Shizuo, Japanese mathematician
Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron, British mathematician and physicist
Klein, Christian Felix, German mathematician
Knuth, Donald Ervin, American mathematician and computer scientist
Kovalevsky, Sonya, Russian mathematician
Kronecker, Leopold, German mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph Louis, Comte, French mathematician and astronomer
Legendre, Adrien Marie, French mathematician
Levi-Civita, Tullio, Italian mathematician
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich, Russian mathematician
Möbius, Augustus Ferdinand, German mathematician and astronomer
Maclaurin, Colin, Scottish mathematician and natural philosopher
Mandelbrot, Benoit B., French mathematician
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de, French mathematician and astronomer
Mayer, Johan Tobias, American mathematician
Mayo-Smith, Richmond, American statistician
Maxwell, James Clerk, Scottish physicist, mathematician
Mittag-Leffler, Magnus Gösta, Swedish mathematician
Moivre, Abraham de, French-English mathematician
Monge, Gaspard, comte de Péluse, French mathematician
Napier, John, Scottish mathematician
Nash, John Forbes, Jr., American mathematician
Newton, Sir Isaac, English mathematician and natural philosopher (physicist)
Nunes, Pedro, Portuguese mathematician
Painlevé, Paul, French statesman and mathematician
Pappus, Greek mathematician
Pascal, Blaise, French scientist and religious philosopher
Petty, Sir William, English statistician and physician
Plucker, Julius, German mathematician and physicist
Poincaré, Jules Henri, French mathematician
Poisson, Siméon Denis, French mathematician and physicist
Poncelet, Jean Victor, French mathematician and army engineer
Quetelet, Adolphe, Belgian statistician and astronomer
Ramanujan, Srinivasa, Indian mathematician
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard, German mathematician
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl, British philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer
Shannon, Claude, American applied mathematician
Steiner, Jakob, Swiss mathematician
Sylvester, James Joseph, English mathematician
Tartaglia, Niccolí², Italian engineer and mathematician
Taylor, Brook, English mathematician
Turing, Alan Mathison, British mathematician and computer theorist
Vií¨te, Franí§ois, French mathematician
Von Neumann, John, American mathematician
Wallis, John, English mathematician
Weierstrass, Karl Wilhelm Theodor, German mathematician
Whitehead, Alfred North, English mathematician and philosopher
Wiener, Norbert, American mathematician, educator, and founder of the field of cybernetics,
Wright, Carroll Davidson, American statistician
Zygmund, Antoni, Polish-American mathematician