Date

Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852

1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Peter Nicholson

1765 - 1844

1765-1844, architectural writer; mathematician, Scottish; British

Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr

1677 - 1750

1677-1750, mathematician; astronomer; cartographer, German

Adriaan Zeelst

1540 - 1623

c. 1540-c. 1623, scientific instrument maker; engraver; mathematician, Dutch

William Oughtred

1575 - 1660

1575-1660, mathematician, English

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

1646 - 1716

1646-1716, mathematician; philospher, German

Sir John Leslie

1766 - 1832

1766-1832, mathematician; natural philosopher, Scottish; British

Sir Alfred Bray Kempe

1849 - 1922

1849-1922, lawyer; mathematician, British

Sir John Frederick William Herschel

1792 - 1871

1792-1871, mathematician and astronomer, English; British

George William Hill

1838 - 1914

1838-1914, astronomer; mathematician, American

Davies Gilbert

1767 - 1839

1767-1839, scientific administrator; mathematician, British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871

1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Georg Simon Ohm

1789 - 1854

1789-1854, natural philosopher and mathematician, German

Charles Augustin Coulomb

1736 - 1806

1736-1806, mechanical engineer; mathematician, French

Marc Francois Louis Secretan

1894 - 1867

1804-1867, mathematician; scientific instrument maker, Swiss

John Hadley

1682 - 1744

1682-1744, natural philosopher; optical instrument maker; mathematician, British; English

Galileo Galilei

1564 - 1642

1564-1642, astronomer; mathematician, Italian

Christian Heiden

1526 - 1576

1526-1576, mathematician; scientific instrument maker, German

Sir George Gabriel Stokes

1819 - 1903

first baronet 1819-1903, physicist; professor of mathematics; lecturer, Irish

Zoltan Dienes

1916 - 2014

1916-2014, mathematician, Hungarian born, Canadian

Francis Bashforth

1819 - 1912

1819-1912, active 1865-1875, mathematician; inventor of chronograph, British

René Descartes

1596 - 1650

1596-1650, philosopher; mathematician, French

Archimedes

288 - 213

287-212 BCE, mathematician, Greek

Sir Arthur Schuster

1851 - 1934

1851-1934, mathematician; physicist, German-born; British

Gaspard de Prony

1755 - 1839

1755-1839, mathematician; engineer, French

James Gregory

1638 - 1675

1638-1675, mathematician; inventor of the reflecting telescope, Scottish

Edmund Gunter

1581 - 1626

1581-1626, mathematician, Welsh; English

Benjamin Donne

1729 - 1798

1729-1798, mathematician; cartographer, English

Richard Sheepshanks

1794 - 1855

1794-1855, astronomer, British

Sir George Howard Darwin

1842 - 1912

1845-1912, mathematician; geophysicist, British; English

Jean Victor Poncelet

1788 - 1867

1788-1867, mathematician; engineer, French

Édouard Lucas

1842 - 1891

active 1885, mathematician, French

Vincenzo Viviani

1622 - 1703

1622-1703, court mathematician; engineer, Italian

Blaise Pascal

1623 - 1662

1623-1662, mathematician; physicist; religious philosopher, French

Michael Marlow Umfreville Wilkinson

1831 - 1916

1831-1916, mathematician, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, British; English

Horace Grant

1799 - 1859

1799-1859, mathematician; writer, British

Siméon-Denis Poisson

1781 - 1840

1781-1840, mathematician; geometer; physicist, French

Christian Felix Klein

1849 - 1925

1849-1925, mathematician, Prussian; German

Hipparchus

190 BCE - 127 BCE

about 190-127 BCE, mathematician; astronomer; geographer, Greek

Christiaan Huygens

1629 - 1695

1629-1693, mathematician; astronomer; physicist, Dutch

Alexander John Ellis

1814 - 1890

1814-1890, mathematician, phonetician, pioneer photographer, British

Johannes Kepler

1571 - 1630

1571-1630, mathematician; astronomer, German

John Dee

1527 - 1609

1527-1609, mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary, English

Evangelista Torricelli

1608 - 1647

1608-1647, physicist; mathematician, Italian

William Wallace

1768 - 1843

1768-1843, mathematician; astronomer; inventor of the eidograph, Scottish; British

Gerhard Mercator

1512 - 1594

1512-1594, cartographer; geographer; mathematician, Belgian

Pierre Ossian Bonnet

1819 - 1892

1819-1892, mathematician, French

Sir James Hopwood Jeans

1877 - 1946

1877-1946, mathematician; astronomer, British; English

Nicolaus Copernicus

1473 - 1543

1473-1543, mathematician; astronomer, Polish

Nevil Maskelyne

1732 - 1811

1732-1811, astronomer; mathematician, English