User:Geometry guy/Mathematicians

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Pre 16th century

The dates in these tables are approximate.

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Pythagoras	582 – 507 BCE	B	Geometry Core Biographies	Top
Euclid	325 – 265 BCE	B	Geometry Core Biographies	Top
Archimedes	287 – 212 BCE	B	Core Biographies	Top

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Diophantus	210 – 290	B	number theory Vital Article	Mid
Zu Geng	450 – 520	Stub	Cavalieri's principle	Low
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi	780 – 850	B	algebra Core Biographies	Mid

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Ch'in Chiu-Shao	1202 – 1261	Stub	arithmetic, algebra	Low
Madhava of Sangamagrama	1350 – 1425	B	algebra, calculus, founder of the Kerala School	Low

16th – 18th century

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Napier, John	1550 – 1617	Start	logarithms, arithmetic, geometry	Mid
Kepler, Johannes	1571 – 1630	B	Celestial mechanics	Mid
Descartes, René	1596 – 1650	B	Geometry	High
Fermat, Pierre de	1601 – 1665	Start	number theory	High
Pascal, Blaise	1623 – 1662	FA	projective geometry, probability theory	High
Newton, Isaac	1643 – 1727	FA	Calculus	Top
Raphson, Joseph	1648 – 1715	Start	Newton Raphson method	Low
Leibniz, Gottfried	1646 – 1716	B	Calculus. Failed Good article nomination.	Top
Moivre, Abraham de	1667 – 1754	Start	complex numbers, trigonometry	Low
Euler, Leonhard	1707 – 1763	FA	calculus, number theory, topology. FA nominee	Top
Lagrange, Joseph Louis	1736 – 1813	B	calculus of variations, celestial mechanics, differential equations	Low
Laplace, Pierre-Simon	1749 – 1827	B	differential equations, mechanics	High
Legendre, Adrien-Marie	1752 – 1833	Start	statistics, number theory, algebra	Mid
Fourier, Joseph	1768 – 1830	Start	Fourier series/Fourier transform, heat flow	Mid
Adrain, Robert	1775 – 1843	Stub	Early american mathematician	Low
Gauss, Carl Friedrich	1777 – 1855	FA	number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics	Top
Cauchy, Augustin Louis	1789 – 1857	Start	calculus, analysis	Top
Crelle, August Leopold	1780 – 1855	Stub	Founder of Crelle's Journal	Low
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich	1792 – 1856	Start	non-euclidean geometry	Mid

1800 – 1849

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky	1801 – 1862		calculus of variations, algebraic functions, number theory, algebra	Mid
Niels Henrik Abel	1802 – 1829		algebra	Mid
Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi	1804 – 1851		number theory, special functions, modular forms	Mid
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet	1805 – 1859	Start	analysis	Top
William Rowan Hamilton	1805 – 1865		Hamiltonian mechanics, the quaternions	High
Augustus De Morgan	1806 – 1871		logic, induction, arithmetic	Low
Hermann Grassmann	1809 – 1877		linear algebra, geometric algebra	High
Évariste Galois	1811 – 1832	B	Algebra	High
Karl Weierstrass	1815 – 1897	Start	analysis	Top
George Boole	1815 – 1864		algebra, logic	High
Arthur Cayley	1821 – 1895		algebra	High
Pafnuty Chebyshev	1821 – 1894		probability, statistics, analysis	Low
Leopold Kronecker	1823 – 1891		algebra, foundational logic	Low
Francis Galton	1822 – 1911	A-B	Statistics	Low
Bernhard Riemann	1826 – 1866	B	analysis and differential geometry	Top
Richard Dedekind	1831 – 1916		algebra, real analysis	High
Josiah Willard Gibbs	1839 – 1903		vector analysis	High
Sophus Lie	1842 – 1899	Stub	differential equations, group theory, theory of Lie groups	Mid
William Kingdon Clifford	1845 – 1879		geometric algebra	Mid
Felix Klein	1849 – 1925		group theory, geometry, founder of the Erlangen program	High
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius	1849 – 1917		group theory, differential equations	Mid

1850 – 1899

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Bruno Abakanowicz	1852 – 1900	Start	?	Low
Henri Poincaré	1854 – 1912	B	Broad	Top
Georg Cantor	1845 – 1918	GA	Set theory, Logic. Good article nomination.	Top
Aleksandr Lyapunov	1857 – 1918		dynamical systems	Low
David Hilbert	1862 – 1943	GA	proof theory, mathematical logic. Good article nomination.	Top
Hermann Minkowski	1864 – 1909		number theory, functional analysis, theory of relativity, linear algebra	Mid
Guido Castelnuovo	1865 – 1952		algebraic geometry (Italian school)	High
Felix Hausdorff	1868 – 1942	Start	measure theory, functional analysis, set theory, topology	Top
Élie Cartan	1869 – 1951		Lie groups	High
Ernst Zermelo	1871 – 1953		axiomatic set theory	High
Émile Borel	1871 – 1956		measure theory, analysis	Low
Federigo Enriques	1871 – 1946		algebraic geometry (Italian school)	Low
Tullio Levi-Civita	1873 – 1941		tensor calculus	Mid
Constantin Carathéodory	1873 – 1950	Stub	Analysis	Mid
Issai Schur	1875 – 1941		represenatation theory	Low
Henri Lebesgue	1875 – 1941	B	mathematical analysis, measure theory	Top
Gilbert Ames Bliss	1876 – 1951	B	calculus of variations	Low
G. H. Hardy	1877 – 1947	Start	number theory, analysis, discovery of Ramanujan	High
Maurice René Fréchet	1878 – 1973	B	topology, statistics, calculus	Mid
Francesco Severi	1879 – 1961		algebraic geometry (Italian school)	Low
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer	1881 – 1966	Start	topology, set theory, measure theory, complex analysis	High
Wacław Sierpiński	1882 – 1969	Start	set theory, topology	Mid
Emmy Nöther	1882 – 1935		algebra	High
Robert Lee Moore	1882 – 1974	B	topology - education	Low
Solomon Lefschetz	1884 – 1972		algebraic topology, differential equations, Morse theory	High
Hermann Weyl	1885 – 1955	B	manifolds, representation theory of compact Lie groups	Mid
Srinivasa Ramanujan	1887 – 1920	B	number theory	High
Selig Brodetsky	1888 – 1954	Stub	NN applied mathematics	Low
Ronald Fisher	1890 – 1962	A	Statistics single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science. Failed Good article nomination.	High
Marston Morse	1892 – 1977		Morse theory	Mid
Stefan Banach	1892 – 1945		functional analysis, pillar of the Lwów School of Mathematics	High
Kazimierz Kuratowski	1896 – 1980		set theory, topology, Polish spaces	High
Emil Artin	1898 – 1962		algebra	Mid
William James Sidis	1898 – 1944	Start	child prodigy	Low
Oscar Zariski	1899 – 1986		algebraic geometry	High

1900 – 1949

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Alfred Tarski	1901 – 1983		mathematical logic, model theory, abstract algebra, set theory	High
Eugene Wigner	1902 – 1995		mathematical physics	Mid
Frank P. Ramsey	1903 – 1930	B	Combinatorics, Ramsey theory	Mid
John von Neumann	1903 – 1957		mathematical physics, set theory, theoretical computer science, economics	Mid
W. V. D. Hodge	1903 – 1975		differential geometry, algebraic topology	Mid
J. H. C. Whitehead	1904 – 1960	Stub	homotopy theory	Mid
Max August Zorn	1906 – 1993	Stub	algebra, group theory, numerical analysis	Mid
Kurt Gödel	1906 – 1978	B	Logic	Top
André Weil	1906 – 1998	B	number theory, algebraic geometry	High
Lars Ahlfors	1907 – 1996		complex analysis, Riemann surfaces	Mid
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter	1907 – 2003		geometry	High
Saunders Mac Lane	1909 – 2005	Start	category theory	High
Esther Szekeres	1910 – 2005	Start	Happy Ending problem	Low
Chern Shiing-shen	1911 – 2004	Start	differential geometery	Top
George Szekeres	1911 – 2005	Start	Happy Ending problem	Low
Alan Turing	1912 – 1954	A	A Good article, om CD-Selection, logic, computers, cryptography	High
J. Carson Mark	1913 – 1997	Stub		Low
George Dantzig	1914 – 2005	Start	linear programming	Mid
Paul Erdős	1913 – 1996		number theory	High
Atle Selberg	1917 –		number theory, automorphic forms	Unassessed
William S. Massey	1920 –	Stub	spectral sequences	Low
Raoul Bott	1923 – 2005		geometry	Mid
Harish Chandra Mehrotra	1923 – 1983		representation theory	Low
Alexander Abian	1923 – 1999	Start		Low
Armand Borel	1923 – 2003		Lie group theory	Low
Benoît Mandelbrot	1924 –		fractal geometry	Low
John Tate	1925 –		algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, algebraic K-theory	Low
Jean-Pierre Serre	1926 –	Start	algebraic geometry, number theory and topology	High
Serge Lang	1927 – 2005		number theory, algebra	Mid
Friedrich Hirzebruch	1927 –		complex manifolds, algebraic geometry	Mid
Alexander Grothendieck	1928 –	B	algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and functional analysis	Top
John Forbes Nash	1928 –	B - poor on maths	game theory	High
Michael Atiyah	1929 –		global analysis, topological K-theory	Top
Stephen Smale	1930 –	Start	h-cobordism theorem	Mid
John Milnor	1931 –		differential topology	Mid
Robert Langlands	1936 –		number theory, representation theory	High
John Horton Conway	1937 –		number theory, game theory	High
William Thurston	1946 –		low-dimensional topology, differential geometry	Mid
Paul Cohen	1934 –		model theory, axiomatic set theory	Mid
David Mumford	1937 –		algebraic geometry	Mid
Vladimir Arnold	1937 –	Start	A vital article	High
Neil Robertson	1938 –	Start	Topological graph theory	Low
Robion Kirby	1938 –	Stub	topological manifolds	Low
Pierre Deligne	1944 –		modular forms, Weil conjectures	Mid
Shing-Tung Yau	1949 –		differential geometry	Mid

1950 onwards

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Michael Freedman	1951 –		topology	Mid
Edward Witten	1951 –	Start	M-theory	High
Vaughan Jones	1952 –		knot theory, conformal field theory, von Neumann algebras	Mid
Andrew Wiles	1953 –		Fermat's last theorem	Mid
Simon Donaldson	1957 –	Start	topology, manifolds	High
Maxim Kontsevich	1964 –		knot theory, mirror symmetry	Mid
Grigori Perelman	1966 –	B	differential geometry, Thurston's geometrization conjecture, failed GA nominee	High
Graeme Segal	1942 –	Stub	conformal field theory, homotopy theory, elliptic cohomology	Low
William Lawvere	1937 –	Stub	category theory	Low
Robert M. Solovay	c. 1940 –		set theory	Mid