John Nash
mathematician, pioneer in game theory and differential geometry, the film drama "A Beautiful Mind" was created and Russell Crowe played his character
Dr. Anatol Rapoport
Mathematician, psychologist, pioneer in mathematical biology, game theory, general systems theory, author of The Origins of Violence, Fights Games and Debates
1911-2007 (96)
Apollonius of Tyana
Mathematician aka Greek Jesus Christ, polymath, pioneer in neo-pythagoreanism, occultist philosopher
15 AD-97 AD
Thomas Bayes
Statistician, mathematician, mathematical stats, pioneer in probability theory, Bayesian statistics, stats, Bayesian models and Bayes' theorem, theologian, Presbyterian minister
1702-1761 (59)
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Mathematician, polymath, polynomials, engineer, physicist
1789-1857 (68)
Chris Langan living
mathematician, pioneer in the ultimate reality of self-simulation and the theory of Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), world's smartest man, highest ever recorded test score at between 195-220 IQ, horse rancher, bar bouncer in New York
1952- (72)
chrislangan.substack.com
Sir Christopher Monckton living
Political strategist, journalist, public speaker, political commentator, politics, mathematician, inventor of Eternity puzzle
1952- (72)
heartland.org
Donald Davidson
Cartesian philosopher, mathematician
1917-2003 (86)
britannica.com
Edmund Husserl
Philosopher, mathematician, pioneer of phenomenology schools
1859-1938 (79)
Eratosthenes
Mathematician, polymath, known for the Sieve of Eratosthenes for locating prime numbers, geographer, astronomer, pioneer in light rays
276 BC-194 BC
apps.lib.umn.edu
Euclid
Mathematician, inventor of geometry, pioneer in math propositions (or math problems), scientist, author of Elements of Geometry
Eugenio Barsanti
mathematician, inventor of the free-piston Barsanti-Matteuci engine
Leonardo Fibonacci
Fibonacci sequence, author of Liber abaci (Book of the Abacus), famous mathematician of the Middle Ages
1170-1240 (70)
britannica.com
Francis Galton
father of eugenics & biometrics, polymath, inventor, cousin to Charles Darwin, anthropologist, in-breeding, psychologist, cartographer, geographer, meteorologist, statistician, polymath, sociologist
Gottlob Frege
Mathematician, logician, philosopher
plato.stanford.edu
Geoffrey Hinton living
mathematician, reseacher, winner of the Turing Award, known as the godfather of AI, computer scientist, cognitive psychologist, pioneer in artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks
1947- (77)
cs.toronto.edu
George Campbell
Geologist, polymath, statesman, 8th Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal of the United Kingdom
1823-1900 (77)
ccsna.org
Jakob Steiner
Mathematician, pioneer in geometry, Euclidean geometry, projective geometry, synthetic geometry
1796-1863 (67)
John Forbes Nash Jr.
Mathematician who developed the embedding theorem, pioneer in game theory, Nash equilibrium theory, algebraic geometry, differential geometry (differential equations)
1928-2015 (87)
John Napier
mathematician, inventor of logarithms, landowner
1550-1617 (67)
britannica.com
Kurt Gödel
Mathematician, logician, philosopher
1906-1978 (72)
britannica.com
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Mathematician aka Gottfried Leibniz, polymath, philosopher, pioneer in metaphysics and human understanding, diplomat, scientist, theologian, ethics, founder of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, political commentator, politics
1646-1716 (70)
Meton living
Athenian astronomer, engineer, mathematician, known for his Metonic moon cycle or 19-year lunisolar cycle (Attic calendar "summer solstice") introduced in 432 BC, pioneer in moon phases and eclipses
460 BC-
encyclopedia.com
Omar Khayyam
Mathematician, astronomer, poet
1048-1131 (83)
britannica.com
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, math prodigy, philosopher, scientist, engineer, inventor of the adding machine with automatic carry between digits, philosopher, which inspired the creators of the Pascal programming language for personal computers (PCs)
1623-1666 (43)
history.computer.org
Paul du Bois-Reymond
Mathematician
1831-1889 (58)
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
Pythagoras
Pythagorean theorm, mathematician, Stoic philosopher, ancient Greek philosopher, vegetarian against meat for food
570 BCE-490 BCE
Robert Fludd
Paracelsian physician, astrologer, cosmologist, mathematician, alchemy, scientific and occult interests, Qabalist, Rosicrucian apologist
1574-1637 (63)
Satyendra Nath (S.N.) Bose
Physicist, mathematician, inventor, pioneer in the discovery of nuclear particles aka 'Boson'.
Marilyn vos Savant
Stanford-Binet test gave her an IQ of 228, polymath, the term "idiot savant" is coined after her because of the Guinness book of world records removing her in 1990
Shinichi Mochizuki
Mathematician, professor at Kyoto University for the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, solved the ABC Conjecture (one of math's greatest unsolved problems) with a 500-page solution in 2012
kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Theaetetus of Athens
Mathematician, pioneer in the theory of irrationals
417 BC-369 BC
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
William Brouncker
Mathematician, pioneer of Brouncker's formula, 1st President of The Royal Society
royalsocietypublishing.org