List of mathematicians facts for kids
This is a list of some famous mathematicians.
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Australia
- Lily Serna, television presenter on Letters and Numbers
- Terence Tao
Azerbaijan
- Jalal Allakhverdiyev, member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (later called the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences); Mathematics; died in 2017
Brazil
- Elon Lages Lima, got the award, the Prêmio Jabuti, twice; died in 2017
Bulgaria
- Lyubomir Ivanov, got the award, Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics.
Chile
- Nicanor Parra, got the Cervantes Prize, the most important literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world
China
- Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Zi, known for authoring Sun Tzu Suan Ching (pinyin: Sun Zi Suan Jing; literally, "Sun Tzu's Calculation Classic"), which contains the Chinese remainder theorem.
- Wu Wenjun, known for the Wu class and the Wu formula are named after him. In the field of automated theorem proving, he is known for Wu's method; died in 2017
- Zhang Heng, made the first seismometer; Astronomy, engineering, meteorology, geology, philosophy, and mathematics; died in 139 A.D.
Croatia
- Roger Joseph Boscovich, maker of a precursor of atomic theory; made the first geometric procedure for finding out the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position; discoverer of the absence of atmosphere on the Moon; he was from a city in what later became Croatia; died in 1787
Czechia
- Petr Vopěnka, he developed Alternative set theory; died in 2015
Egypt
- Euclid of Alexandria, known for Euclidean geometry, Euclid's Elements, Euclidean algorithm; died in the middle of 3rd century BC
- Hypatia, the first noted women in mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy.
Finland
- Lars Ahlfors, known for his work of complex analysis
France
- Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, the first female mathematical sciences professor in Norway; Applied mathematics, she died in 2017
- Sophie Germain
Germany
Great Britain
England
- Ada Lovelace, wrote the world's first computer program.
- Charles Babbage, credited with inventing the first mechanical computer (or analytical engine); died in 1871
- Alan Turing, he was important in the development of theoretical computer science, and is known for the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer; died in 1954
- Andrew Wiles, proved Fermat's Last Theorem; his field is Number theory
- Lucy Joan Slater, her field is mathematical functions
- James H. Wilkinson, his field is numerical analysis
Greek
Bust of Pythagoras, Vatican
Hungary
- Paul Erdős, published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed; died 1996
- Peter Lax (American mathematician born in Hungary)
India
Srinivasa Ramanujan on stamp of India (2011)
Italy
- Gerolamo Cardano, he invented - partially - the gimbal consisting of three concentric rings allowing a supported compass or gyroscope to rotate freely, and the Cardan shaft; died in 1576
Iran
- Maryam Mirzakhani - first woman to receive the Fields Medal; she died in 2017
Japan
- Goro Shimura - expert of number theory
- Hiroshi Umemura - former professor at Nagoya University
- Kiyoshi Oka - former professor at Kyoto University
- Kyuya Masuda
- Masaaki Sugihara - former professor at the University of Tokyo
- Masao Iri
- Masatake Mori
- Ryogo Hirota - former professor at Waseda University
- Shinichi Oishi
Morocco
- Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi, wrote Meknes's history and a commentary to the treatise of Ibn al-Banna; a work that explained the mentioned work, was named ["The desire of students for an explanation of the calculator's craving"] Bughyat al-tulab fi sharh munyat al-hussab (including, arithmetic and algebraic methods. died in 1513
Norway
- Niels Henrik Abel, did the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals; died in 1829
Romania
- Solomon Marcus, recognised as an initiator of (, or one of the people that started) mathematical linguistics, and mathematical poetics; also a semiotician, he died in 2016
Russia
Marina Ratner in 1988
Switzerland
- Leonhard Euler, was the first to show the notion of (or idea about), a mathematical function; died in 1783
Syria
- Al-Battani, known for showing several relations within trigonometry; he lived and worked in a city that now belongs to Syria; died in 929
Ukraine
- Leonid Plyushch, died in 2015
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See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Matemáticos importantes para niños
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