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Articles on mathematicians are group and ordered by birth year. There are some extra criteria which are of use when grading the importance of a mathematician.

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[edit] Importance grading

The grading for importance is taken from Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies. For placement on this list, consider the following criteria.

Top - Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Einstein, brilliant physicist, but his theories have affected people outside of physics and in many other countries besides his nation of origin and several generations. His ideas have changed the way people think. No member should give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members.

For an understanding of how "Top" relates to potential lower-importance categories, keep this in mind, as it might help decide if a biography is really "Top" or "High," etc.:

High - Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin.
Mid - Important in their discipline
Low - A contributor to their discipline and is included in Wikipedia to expand depth of knowledge of other articles.


[edit] Pre 16th century

Mathematician Dates Quality Field Need Template
Pythagoras 582 BC – 507 BC B Geometry Core Biographies Top Y
Euclid 325 BC – 265 BC B Geometry Core Biographies Top Y
Archimedes 287 BC – 212 BC B Core Biographies Top Y
Diophantus c200/214
- c284/298		 B number theory Vital Article Mid Y
Zu Geng c. 450 to c. 520. Stub Cavalieri's principle Low Y
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ca. 780 B algebra Core Biographies Mid Y
Ch'in Chiu-Shao 1202 - 1261 Stub arithmetic, algebra Low Y
Madhava of Sangamagrama 1350 - 1425 B algebra, calculus, founder of the Kerala School Low Y

[edit] 16-18th century

Mathematician Dates Quality Field Need Template
Napier, John 1550 - 1617 Start logarithms, arithmetic, geometry Mid Y
Kepler, Johannes 1571 - 1630 B+ Celestrial mechanics Mid Y
Descartes René 1596 – 1650 B+ Geometry High Y
Fermat, Pierre de 1601 - 1665 Start number theory High Y
Pascal Blaise 1623 – 1662 Featured article FA projective geometry, probability theory High Y
Newton, Isaac 1643 – 1727 Featured article FA Calculus Top Y
Raphson, Joseph 1648 - 1715 Start Newton Raphson method Low Y
Leibniz, Gottfried 1646 – 1716 B+ Calculus. Failed Good article nomination. Top Y
Moivre, Abraham de 1667 - 1754 Start complex numbers, trigonometry Low Y
Euler, Leonhard 1707 - 1763 Featured article FA calculus, number theory, topology. FA nominee Top Y
Lagrange, Joseph Louis 1736 - 1813 B calculus of variations, celestial mechanics, differential equations Low Y
Laplace, Pierre-Simon 1749 - 1827 B differential equations, mechanics High Y
Legendre, Adrien-Marie 1752 - 1833 Start statistics, number theory, algebra Mid Y
Fourier, Joseph 1768 - 1830 Start Fourier series/Fourier transform, heat flow Mid Y
Adrain, Robert 1775 - 1843 Stub Early ammerican mathematician Low Y
Gauss, Carl Friedrich 1777 – 1855 Featured article FA number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics Top Y
Cauchy, Augustin Louis 1789 – 1857 Start calculus, analysis Top Y
Crelle, August Leopold 1780 - 1855 Stub Founder of Crelle's Journal Low Y
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich 1792 - 1856 Start non-euclidean geometry Mid Y

[edit] 1800-1849

Mathematician Dates Quality Field Need Template
Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky 1801 - 1862 calculus of variations, algebraic functions, number theory, algebra Mid
Niels Henrik Abel 1802 - 1829 algebra Mid
Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi 1804 - 1851 number theory, special functions, modular forms Mid
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet 1805 - 1859 Start analysis Top Y
William Rowan Hamilton 1805 - 1865 Hamiltonian mechanics, the quaternions High
Augustus De Morgan 1806 - 1871 logic, induction, arithmetic Low
Hermann Grassmann 1809 - 1877 linear algebra, geometric algebra High
Évariste Galois 1811 – 1832 B Algebra High
Karl Weierstrass 1815 - 1897 Start analysis Top Y
George Boole 1815 - 1864 algebra, logic High
Arthur Cayley 1821 - 1895 algebra High
Pafnuty Chebyshev 1821 - 1894 probability, statistics, analysis Low
Leopold Kronecker 1823 - 1891 algebra, foundational logic Low
Francis Galton 1822 – 1911 A-B Statistics Low
Bernhard Riemann 1826 - 1866 B analysis and differential geometry Top Y
Richard Dedekind 1831 - 1916 algebra, real analysis High
Josiah Willard Gibbs 1839 - 1903 vector analysis High
Sophus Lie 1842 - 1899 Stub differential equations, group theory, theory of Lie groups Mid Y
William Kingdon Clifford 1845 - 1879 geometric algebra Mid
Felix Klein 1849 - 1925 group theory, geometry, founder of the Erlangen program High
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius 1849 - 1917 group theory, differential equations Mid

[edit] 1850-1899

Mathematician Dates Quality Field Need Template
Bruno Abakanowicz 1852 - 1900 Start ? Low Y
Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912 B Broad Top Y
Georg Cantor 1845 – 1918 Good article GA Set theory, Logic. Good article nomination. Top Y
Aleksandr Lyapunov 1857 - 1918 dynamical systems Low
David Hilbert 1862 – 1943 Good article GA proof theory, mathematical logic. Good article nomination. Top Y
Hermann Minkowski 1864 - 1909 number theory, functional analysis, theory of relativity, linear algebra Mid
Guido Castelnuovo 1865 - 1952 algebraic geometry (Italian school) High
Felix Hausdorff 1868 - 1942 Start measure theory, functional analysis, set theory, topology Top Y
Élie Cartan 1869 - 1951 Lie groups High
Ernst Zermelo 1871 - 1953 axiomatic set theory High
Émile Borel 1871 - 1956 measure theory, analysis Low
Federigo Enriques 1871 - 1946 algebraic geometry (Italian school) Low
Tullio Levi-Civita 1873 - 1941 tensor calculus Mid
Constantin Carathéodory 1873 – 1950 Stub Analysis Mid Y
Issai Schur 1875 - 1941 represenatation theory Low
Henri Lebesgue 1875 – 1941 B mathematical analysis, measure theory Top Y
Gilbert Ames Bliss 1876 - 1951 B calculus of variations Low Y
G. H. Hardy 1877 - 1947 Start number theory, analysis, discovery of Ramanujan High Y
Maurice René Fréchet 1878 - 1973 B topology, statistics, calculus Mid Y
Francesco Severi 1879 - 1961 algebraic geometry (Italian school) Low
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer 1881-1966 Start topology, set theory, measure theory, complex analysis High Y
Wacław Sierpiński 1882 - 1969 Start set theory, topology Mid Y
Emmy Nöther 1882 – 1935 algebra High
Robert Lee Moore 1882 - 1974 B topology - education Low Y
Solomon Lefschetz 1884 - 1972 algebraic topology, differential equations, Morse theory High
Hermann Weyl 1885 - 1955 B+ manifolds, representation theory of compact Lie groups Mid Y
Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887 - 1920 B number theory High
Selig Brodetsky 1888-1954 Stub NN applied mathematics Low Y
Ronald Fisher 1890 – 1962 A Statistics single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science. Failed Good article nomination. High Y
Marston Morse 1892 - 1977 Morse theory Mid
Stefan Banach 1892 - 1945 functional analysis, pillar of the Lwów School of Mathematics High
Kazimierz Kuratowski 1896 - 1980 set theory, topology, Polish spaces High
Emil Artin 1898 - 1962 algebra Mid
William James Sidis 1898 - 1944 Start child prodigy Low Y
Oscar Zariski 1899 - 1986 algebraic geometry High

[edit] 1900 - 1949

Mathematician Dates Quality Field Need Template
Alfred Tarski 1901 - 1983 mathematical logic, model theory, abstract algebra, set theory High
Eugene Wigner 1902 - 1995 mathematical physics High
Frank P. Ramsey 1903 - 1930 B Combinatorics, Ramsey theory Mid Y
John von Neumann 1903 - 1957 mathematical physics, set theory, theoretical computer science, economics Low
W. V. D. Hodge 1903 - 1975 differential geometry, algebraic topology Mid
J. H. C. Whitehead 1904 - 1960 Stub homotopy theory Mid Y
Max August Zorn 1906 -1993 Stub algebra, group theory, numerical analysis Mid Y
Kurt Gödel 1906 - 1978 B Logic Top Y
André Weil 1906 - 1998 B number theory, algebraic geometry High Y
Lars Ahlfors 1907 - 1996 complex analysis, Riemann surfaces Mid
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter 1907 - 2003 geometry High
Saunders Mac Lane 1909 – 2005 Start category theory High
Esther Szekeres 1910 - 2005 Start Happy Ending problem Low Y
Chern Shiing-shen 1911 – 2004 Start differential geometery Top Y
George Szekeres 1911 - 2005 Start Happy Ending problem Low Y
Alan Turing 1912 - 1954 A A Good article, om CD-Selection, logic, computers, cryptography High Y
J. Carson Mark 1913 - 1997 Stub Low Y
George Dantzig 1914-2005 Start linear programming Mid Y
Paul Erdős 1913 - 1996 number theory High
Atle Selberg 1917 - number theory, automorphic forms
William S. Massey 1920 - Stub spectral sequences Low
Raoul Bott 1923 - 2005 geometry Mid
Harish Chandra Mehrotra 1923 - 1983 representation theory Low
Alexander Abian 1923 - 1999 Start Low
Armand Borel 1923 - 2003 Lie group theory Low
Benoît Mandelbrot 1924 - fractal geometry Low
John Tate 1925 - algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, algebraic K-theory Low
Jean-Pierre Serre 1926 - Start algebraic geometry, number theory and topology High
Serge Lang 1927 - 2005 number theory, algebra Mid
Friedrich Hirzebruch 1927 - complex manifolds, algebraic geometry Mid
Alexander Grothendieck 1928 - B algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and functional analysis Top Y
John Forbes Nash 1928 - B - poor on maths game theory Mid Y
Michael Atiyah 1929 - global analysis, topological K-theory High
Stephen Smale 1930 - Start h-cobordism theorem Mid
John Milnor 1931 - differential topology Mid
Robert Langlands 1936 - number theory, representation theory
John Horton Conway 1937 - number theory, game theory High
William Thurston 1946 - low dimensional topology, differential geometry Mid
Paul Cohen 1934 - model theory, axiomatic set theory Mid
David Mumford 1937 - algebraic geometry Low
Vladimir Arnold 1937 - Start A vital article High Y
Neil Robertson 1938 - Start Topological graph theory Low Y
Robion Kirby ~1940- Stub topological manifolds Low
Pierre Deligne 1944 - modular forms, Weil conjectures Mid
Shing-Tung Yau 1949 - differential geometry Mid

[edit] 1950 - date

Mathematician Dates Quality Field Need Template
Michael Freedman 1951 - topology Mid
Edward Witten 1951 - Start M-theory High
Vaughan Jones 1952 - knot theory, conformal field theory, von Neumann algebras Low
Andrew Wiles 1953 - Fermat's last theorem Mid
Simon Donaldson 1957 - Start topology, manifolds Mid
Maxim Kontsevich 1964 - knot theory, mirror symmetry Low
Grigori Perelman 1966 - B differential geometry, Thurston's geometrization conjecture, failed GA nominee High Y
Graeme Segal ?? Stub conformal field theory, homotopy theory, elliptic cohomology Low
William Lawvere ?? Stub Low
Robert M. Solovay ?? set theory High


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Geometry and topology • Mathematical physics • Number theory • Probability and statistics
Theorems and Conjectures • History • Mathematicians

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