List of amateur mathematicians
This is a list of amateur mathematicians—people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics (or any similar discipline) yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics.
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (primary school teacher)
- Ahmes (scribe)
- Robert Ammann (programmer and postal worker)
- John Arbuthnot (surgeon and author)
- Jean-Robert Argand (shopkeeper)
- Leon Bankoff (Beverly Hills dentist)
- Rev. Thomas Bayes (Presbyterian minister)
- Andrew Beal (businessman)
- Friedrich Bessel (accountant)
- Bernard Frénicle de Bessy (Counsellor, Cour des monnaies)
- Chester Ittner Bliss (biologist)
- Napoléon Bonaparte (general)
- George Boole (primary school teacher)
- Mary Everest Boole (homemaker, librarian)
- William Bourne (innkeeper)
- Nathaniel Bowditch (indentured bookkeeper)
- Achille Brocot (clockmaker)
- Harlan J. Brothers (teacher, inventor, and musician)
- Jost Bürgi (clockmaker)
- Marvin Ray Burns (veteran)
- Gerolamo Cardano (medical doctor)
- D. G. Champernowne (college student)
- Thomas Clausen (technical assistant)
- Sir James Cockle (judge)
- Federico Commandino (medical doctor)
- William Crabtree (merchant)
- Nathan Daboll (cooper)
- Felix Delastelle (bonded warehouseman)
- Martin Demaine (goldsmith and glass artist)
- Humphry Ditton (minister)
- K. Eric Drexler (engineer)
- Harvey Dubner (engineer)
- Henry Dudeney (civil servant)
- Albrecht Dürer (painter)
- M. C. Escher (graphic artist)
- Pasquale Joseph Federico (patent attorney)
- Pierre de Fermat (lawyer)
- Sarah Flannery (high school student)
- Reo Fortune (anthropologist)
- John G.F. Francis (research assistant)
- Benjamin Franklin (printer and diplomat)
- Bernard Frénicle de Bessy (counsellor)
- Gemma Frisius (medical doctor)
- Britney Gallivan (high school student)
- James Garfield (United States President)
- Antoine Gombaud (essayist)
- Thorold Gosset (lawyer)
- Jørgen Pedersen Gram (actuary)
- Hermann Grassmann (school teacher)
- John Graunt (haberdasher)
- George Green (miller)
- André-Michel Guerry (lawyer)
- Charles James Hargreave (judge)
- Oliver Heaviside (telegraph operator)
- Kurt Heegner (private scholar)
- Alfred Bray Kempe (lawyer)
- Thomas Kirkman (church rector)
- Hedy Lamarr (actress)
- Emanuel Lasker (chess player; Ph.D. in mathematics; held short mathematical positions at two universities)
- Harry Lindgren (civil servant)
- Ada Lovelace (countess)
- Kenneth McIntyre (lawyer)
- Danica McKellar (actress)
- Anderson Gray McKendrick (medical doctor)
- Marin Mersenne (theologian)
- Florence Nightingale (nurse)
- Jacques Ozanam (tutor)
- B. Nicolò I. Paganini (schoolboy)[1]
- Pāṇini (linguist)
- Blaise Pascal (heir, private scholar)
- Henry Perigal (stockbroker)
- Kenneth Perko (lawyer)
- Pingala (musician)
- William Playfair (draftsman)
- Henry Cabourn Pocklington (schoolmaster)
- François Proth (farmer)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (clerk)
- Ramchundra (head master)
- Marjorie Rice (homemaker)
- Olinde Rodrigues (banker, social reformer)
- Robert Schlaifer (classics scholar)
- Robert Schneider (musician and record producer)
- William Shanks (landlord)
- Abraham Sharp (schoolmaster)
- Simon Stevin (merchants clerk)
- Alicia Boole Stott (secretary)
- Gaston Tarry (civil servant)
- Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (bookkeeper)
- Nikola Tesla (inventor)
- Sebastien Truchet (monk)
- Franciscus Vieta (lawyer)
- Giordano Vitale (soldier)
- William Wallace (bookbinder)
- Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (evolutionary biologist)
- Johannes Werner (parish priest)
- Magnus Wenninger (monk)
- Caspar Wessel (lawyer)
- Leo Wiener (linguist)
- Frank Wilcoxon (chemist)
- Edouard Zeckendorf (medical doctor)
See also
- Stefan Banach
- Jean-Charles de Borda
- André-Louis Cholesky
- Ada Dietz
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
- Robert Leslie Ellis
- Buckminster Fuller
- Angelo Genocchi
- Sophie Germain
- Thomas Hobbes
- Émile Lemoine
- Ludwig Immanuel Magnus
- Henry Mann
- Simon Newcomb
- Paul Painlevé
- Richard A. Parker
- Ludwig Schläfli
- Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
- William James Sidis
- Steven Takiff
- Alfred Young
- Yitang Zhang
References
- ↑ Sprugnoli, Renzo (27 September 2005). "Introduzione alla matematica: La matematica della scuola media". Universita degli Studi di Firenze: Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica. p. 59. Retrieved 21 August 2012.