Famous mathematicians
person with an extensive knowledge of mathematics
1,326 people
Friedrich Bessel
1784
– 1846
· Age 61
Deceased
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
1804
– 1851
· Age 46
Deceased
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
1805
– 1859
· Age 54
Deceased
John Couch Adams
1819
– 1892
· Age 72
Deceased
Eudoxus of Cnidus
John XXI
1215
– 1277
· Age 62
Deceased
Claude Shannon
1916
– 2001
· Age 84
Deceased
Jean-Baptiste Biot
1774
– 1862
· Age 87
Deceased
Fred Hoyle
1915
– 2001
· Age 86
Deceased
Piero della Francesca
1415
– 1492
· Age 77
Deceased
Luca Pacioli
1445
– 1517
· Age 72
Deceased
Caroline Herschel
1750
– 1848
· Age 97
Deceased
Sophie Germain
1776
– 1831
· Age 55
Deceased
François Viète
1540
– 1603
· Age 63
Deceased
Leonid Kantorovich
1912
– 1986
· Age 74
Deceased
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
1899
– 1980
· Age 81
Deceased
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
1713
– 1762
· Age 49
Deceased
John McCarthy
1927
– 2011
· Age 84
Deceased
Charles Francis Richter
1900
– 1985
· Age 85
Deceased
Marvin Minsky
1927
– 2016
· Age 88
Deceased
Zhang Heng
0078
– 0139
· Age 61
Deceased
Percival Lowell
1855
– 1916
· Age 61
Deceased
Archibald Hill
1886
– 1977
· Age 90
Deceased
Oliver Heaviside
1850
– 1925
· Age 74
Deceased
Siméon Denis Poisson
1781
– 1840
· Age 58
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q170790