Instead, this page now contains some old data which has not been fully migrated to the new page.
The dates in these tables are approximate.
Mathematician |
Dates |
Quality |
Field |
Need |
Napier, John |
1550 – 1617 |
Start |
logarithms, arithmetic, geometry |
Mid |
Kepler, Johannes |
1571 – 1630 |
A-BB+ |
Celestial mechanics |
Mid |
Descartes, René |
1596 – 1650 |
A-BB+ |
Geometry |
High |
Fermat, Pierre de |
1601 – 1665 |
Start |
number theory |
High |
Pascal, Blaise |
1623 – 1662 |
FA |
projective geometry, probability theory |
High |
Newton, Isaac |
1643 – 1727 |
FA |
Calculus |
Top |
Raphson, Joseph |
1648 – 1715 |
Start |
Newton Raphson method |
Low |
Leibniz, Gottfried |
1646 – 1716 |
A-BB+ |
Calculus. Failed Good article nomination. |
Top |
Moivre, Abraham de |
1667 – 1754 |
Start |
complex numbers, trigonometry |
Low |
Euler, Leonhard |
1707 – 1763 |
FA |
calculus, number theory, topology. FA nominee |
Top |
Lagrange, Joseph Louis |
1736 – 1813 |
B |
calculus of variations, celestial mechanics, differential equations |
Low |
Laplace, Pierre-Simon |
1749 – 1827 |
B |
differential equations, mechanics |
High |
Legendre, Adrien-Marie |
1752 – 1833 |
Start |
statistics, number theory, algebra |
Mid |
Fourier, Joseph |
1768 – 1830 |
Start |
Fourier series/Fourier transform, heat flow |
Mid |
Adrain, Robert |
1775 – 1843 |
Stub |
Early american mathematician |
Low |
Gauss, Carl Friedrich |
1777 – 1855 |
FA |
number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics |
Top |
Cauchy, Augustin Louis |
1789 – 1857 |
Start |
calculus, analysis |
Top |
Crelle, August Leopold |
1780 – 1855 |
Stub |
Founder of Crelle's Journal |
Low |
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich |
1792 – 1856 |
Start |
non-euclidean geometry |
Mid |
Mathematician |
Dates |
Quality |
Field |
Need |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Mathematician |
Dates |
Quality |
Field |
Need |
Bruno Abakanowicz |
1852 – 1900 |
Start |
? |
Low |
Henri Poincaré |
1854 – 1912 |
B |
Broad |
Top |
Georg Cantor |
1845 – 1918 |
GA |
Set theory, Logic. Good article nomination. |
Top |
Aleksandr Lyapunov |
1857 – 1918 |
|
dynamical systems |
Low |
David Hilbert |
1862 – 1943 |
GA |
proof theory, mathematical logic. Good article nomination. |
Top |
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 |
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 |
Issai Schur |
1875 – 1941 |
|
represenatation theory |
Low |
Henri Lebesgue |
1875 – 1941 |
B |
mathematical analysis, measure theory |
Top |
Gilbert Ames Bliss |
1876 – 1951 |
B |
calculus of variations |
Low |
G. H. Hardy |
1877 – 1947 |
Start |
number theory, analysis, discovery of Ramanujan |
High |
Maurice René Fréchet |
1878 – 1973 |
B |
topology, statistics, calculus |
Mid |
Francesco Severi |
1879 – 1961 |
|
algebraic geometry (Italian school) |
Low |
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer |
1881 – 1966 |
Start |
topology, set theory, measure theory, complex analysis |
High |
Wacław Sierpiński |
1882 – 1969 |
Start |
set theory, topology |
Mid |
Emmy Nöther |
1882 – 1935 |
|
algebra |
High |
Robert Lee Moore |
1882 – 1974 |
B |
topology - education |
Low |
Solomon Lefschetz |
1884 – 1972 |
|
algebraic topology, differential equations, Morse theory |
High |
Hermann Weyl |
1885 – 1955 |
A-BB+ |
manifolds, representation theory of compact Lie groups |
Mid |
Srinivasa Ramanujan |
1887 – 1920 |
B |
number theory |
High |
Selig Brodetsky |
1888 – 1954 |
Stub |
NN applied mathematics |
Low |
Ronald Fisher |
1890 – 1962 |
A |
Statistics single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science. Failed Good article nomination. |
High |
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 |
Oscar Zariski |
1899 – 1986 |
|
algebraic geometry |
High |
Mathematician |
Dates |
Quality |
Field |
Need |
Alfred Tarski |
1901 – 1983 |
|
mathematical logic, model theory, abstract algebra, set theory |
High |
Eugene Wigner |
1902 – 1995 |
|
mathematical physics |
Mid |
Frank P. Ramsey |
1903 – 1930 |
B |
Combinatorics, Ramsey theory |
Mid |
John von Neumann |
1903 – 1957 |
|
mathematical physics, set theory, theoretical computer science, economics |
Mid |
W. V. D. Hodge |
1903 – 1975 |
|
differential geometry, algebraic topology |
Mid |
J. H. C. Whitehead |
1904 – 1960 |
Stub |
homotopy theory |
Mid |
Max August Zorn |
1906 – 1993 |
Stub |
algebra, group theory, numerical analysis |
Mid |
Kurt Gödel |
1906 – 1978 |
B |
Logic |
Top |
André Weil |
1906 – 1998 |
B |
number theory, algebraic geometry |
High |
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 |
Chern Shiing-shen |
1911 – 2004 |
Start |
differential geometery |
Top |
George Szekeres |
1911 – 2005 |
Start |
Happy Ending problem |
Low |
Alan Turing |
1912 – 1954 |
A |
A Good article, om CD-Selection, logic, computers, cryptography |
High |
J. Carson Mark |
1913 – 1997 |
Stub |
|
Low |
George Dantzig |
1914 – 2005 |
Start |
linear programming |
Mid |
Paul Erdős |
1913 – 1996 |
|
number theory |
High |
Atle Selberg |
1917 – |
|
number theory, automorphic forms |
Unassessed |
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 |
John Forbes Nash |
1928 – |
B - poor on maths |
game theory |
High |
Michael Atiyah |
1929 – |
|
global analysis, topological K-theory |
Top |
Stephen Smale |
1930 – |
Start |
h-cobordism theorem |
Mid |
John Milnor |
1931 – |
|
differential topology |
Mid |
Robert Langlands |
1936 – |
|
number theory, representation theory |
High |
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 |
Mid |
Vladimir Arnold |
1937 – |
Start |
A vital article |
High |
Neil Robertson |
1938 – |
Start |
Topological graph theory |
Low |
Robion Kirby |
1938 – |
Stub |
topological manifolds |
Low |
Pierre Deligne |
1944 – |
|
modular forms, Weil conjectures |
Mid |
Shing-Tung Yau |
1949 – |
|
differential geometry |
Mid |