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