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The most-searched mathematicians right now, with the latest news on each.

Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton

English polymath (1642–1727)

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Ada Lovelace
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Ada Lovelace

English mathematician (1815–1852)

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John Forbes Nash Jr.
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John Forbes Nash Jr.

American mathematician and Nobel Laureate (1928–2015)

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Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell

English philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

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Archimedes
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Archimedes

Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – 212 BC)

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Pythagoras
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Pythagoras

Greek philosopher (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)

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Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal

French polymath (1623–1662)

Kurt Gödel
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Kurt Gödel

Mathematician and philosopher (1906–1978)

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Hypatia

4th-century Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician

John Urschel
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John Urschel

John Cameron Urschel Jr. is a Canadian-born American mathematician and former professional football guard. He played college football at Penn State and was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL draft. Urschel played his entire NFL career with Baltimore before announcing his retirement on July 27, 2017, at 26 years old.

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Eratosthenes
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Eratosthenes

Greek librarian, mathematician, geographer, and poet

Fibonacci
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Fibonacci

Italian mathematician (c. 1170 – c. 1240/50)

Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

Stephen Wolfram
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Stephen Wolfram

British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)

Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Pierre-Simon Laplace

French polymath (1749–1827)

Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy

French mathematician (1789–1857)

Cédric Villani
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Cédric Villani

French mathematician and politician

Leslie Lamport
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Leslie Lamport

American computer scientist

Shing-Tung Yau
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Shing-Tung Yau

American mathematician from Hong Kong

Pierre de Fermat
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Pierre de Fermat

French mathematician and lawyer (1601–1665)

Tony Tan
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Tony Tan

7th President of Singapore

Adi Shamir
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Adi Shamir

Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)

Anatoly Fomenko
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Anatoly Fomenko

Russian mathematician

Christian Doppler
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Christian Doppler

Austrian mathematician and physicist (1803–1853)