Famous mathematicians
The most-searched mathematicians right now, with the latest news on each.
Isaac Newton
English polymath (1642–1727)
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Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
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John Forbes Nash Jr.
American mathematician and Nobel Laureate (1928–2015)
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Bertrand Russell
English philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
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Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – 212 BC)
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Pythagoras
Greek philosopher (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
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Blaise Pascal
French polymath (1623–1662)
Kurt Gödel
Mathematician and philosopher (1906–1978)
Hypatia
4th-century Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician
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
Greek librarian, mathematician, geographer, and poet
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician (c. 1170 – c. 1240/50)
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French polymath (1749–1827)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician (1789–1857)
Cédric Villani
French mathematician and politician
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
Shing-Tung Yau
American mathematician from Hong Kong
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician and lawyer (1601–1665)
Tony Tan
7th President of Singapore
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)
Anatoly Fomenko
Russian mathematician
Christian Doppler
Austrian mathematician and physicist (1803–1853)