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This is a List of Lists of mathematicians and covers notable mathematicians by nationality, ethnicity, religion, profession and other characteristics. Alphabetical lists are also available (see table to the right).
Joseph Alphonso Pierce, Sr. (August 10, 1902 – September 18, 1969) was an African American mathematician and statistician. He was one of the first African-Americans to earn a PhD in mathematics in the United States. He was an educator who had a long career as teacher, administrator, and researcher.
David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics. [1] He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. [4]
Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré is a book on the history of mathematics published in 1937 by Scottish-born American mathematician and science fiction writer E. T. Bell (1883–1960). After a brief chapter on three ancient mathematicians, it covers the lives of about forty ...
William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania [1] [2] Paul Cohen (1934–2007) Don Coppersmith (b. 1950), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history; Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
[1] [2] Mersenne, an ordained Catholic priest, had many contacts in the scientific world and has been called "the center of the world of science and mathematics during the first half of the 1600s" [3] and, because of his ability to make connections between people and ideas, "the post-box of Europe". [4]
He withdrew from mathematics and public life in 2006, and even in 2010, he still insisted his contribution was the same as the mathematician whose work laid the foundation on which he built his ...
James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician.He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.