List of mathematicians

• Lily Serna, television presenter on Letters and Numbers (en)
• Terence Tao

• 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

• Elon Lages Lima, got the award, the Prêmio Jabuti, twice;^[1] died in 2017^[2]

• Lyubomir Ivanov, got the award, Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics.^[3]

• Nicanor Parra, got the Cervantes Prize, the most important literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world^[4][5]

• 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.

• 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;^[6] he was from a city in what later became Croatia; died in 1787

• Petr Vopěnka, he developed Alternative set theory; died in 2015

• Euclid of Alexandria, known for Euclidean geometry, Euclid's Elements, Euclidean algorithm; died in the middle of 3rd century BC

• Lars Ahlfors, known for his work of complex analysis

• Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, the first female mathematical sciences professor in Norway;^[7] Applied mathematics, she died in 2017
• Sophie Germain

• Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

England

• Charles Babbage, credited with inventing the first mechanical computer (or analytical engine);^[8][9] died in 1871

• Alan Turing, he was important in the development of theoretical computer science,^{[10][11][12][13]} 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

• Eratosthenes
• Euclid
• Pythagoras

• Paul Erdős, published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed;^[14] died 1996
• Peter Lax (American mathematician born in Hungary)

• Srinivasa Ramanujan

• 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;^[15] died in 1576

• Maryam Mirzakhani - first woman to receive the Fields Medal; she died in 2017

• 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

• 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.^[16] died in 1513

• Niels Henrik Abel, did the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation (en) in radicals; died in 1829 ^[17]

• Solomon Marcus, recognised^[18][19][20] as an initiator of (, or one of the people that started) mathematical linguistics, and mathematical poetics; also a semiotician, he died in 2016

• Israel Gelfand
• Leonid Kantorovich
• Marina Ratner
• Sofya Kovalevskaya
• Vladimir Arnold

• Leonhard Euler, was the first to show the notion of (or idea about), a mathematical function; ^[21] died in 1783

• Al-Battani, known for showing several relations within trigonometry; he lived and worked in a city that now belongs to Syria; died in 929

• Leonid Plyushch, died in 2015

• List of mathematics topics
• List of scientists
• Mathematics
• Timeline of women in mathematics