Field
Mathematics
79 figures, most prominent first.
John von Neumann
computer architecture, game theory
1903 – 1957
Ludwig Wittgenstein
wrote two philosophies, refuted one
1889 – 1951
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and po
1902 – 1994
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist
1927 – 2011
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
b. 1951
- PE
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
1913 – 1996
Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician
1902 – 1995
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology
1859 – 1938
George Dantzig
American mathematician
1914 – 2005
Kenneth Arrow
American economist
1921 – 2017
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
1894 – 1964
Alexander Grothendieck
French mathematician
1928 – 2014
Theodore von Kármán
Hungarian-American mathematician
1881 – 1963
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher and mathematician
1926 – 2016
Julian Schwinger
American theoretical physicist
1918 – 1994
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician
1924 – 2010
Emmy Noether
founded modern abstract algebra
1882 – 1935
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
b. 1966
Emanuel Lasker
Greman chess player, World Chess champion
1868 – 1941
Simon Kuznets
Russian-born American economist and statistician
1901 – 1985
Adi Shamir
the S in RSA encryption
b. 1952
Alfred Tarski
Polish-American logician
1901 – 1983
- HS
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
British politician
1870 – 1963
Peter Lax
American mathematician of Hungarian origin
1926 – 2025
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman
b. 1959
Wassily Leontief
Russian economist
1906 – 1999
- AW
André Weil
French mathematician
1906 – 1998
Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician and physicist
1864 – 1909
Imre Lakatos
Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science
1922 – 1974
Joseph Weizenbaum
German-American computer scientist
1923 – 2008
Karl Schwarzschild
German physicist, astronomer and mathematician
1873 – 1916
Leonid Hurwicz
Polish-American economist and mathematician
1917 – 2008
Robert Aumann
Israeli-American mathematician
b. 1930
- SU
Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician
1909 – 1984
Alexander Friedmann
Russian mathematician
1888 – 1925
Jim Simons
American mathematician and hedge fund manager
1938 – 2024
Noga Alon
Israeli mathematician
b. 1956
Shafi Goldwasser
American computer scientist
b. 1958
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
b. 1965
- LL
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
b. 1941
Myron Scholes
Canadian economist
b. 1941
Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist
1880 – 1933
Israel Gelfand
Soviet-American mathematician
1913 – 2009
Martin David Kruskal
American mathematician
1925 – 2006
Reinhard Selten
German economist
1930 – 2016
Roger Myerson
American economist
b. 1951
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
1814 – 1897
Leonard Adleman
the A in RSA encryption
b. 1945
Leonid Kantorovich
Russian mathematician
1912 – 1986
Michael Berry
British physicist
b. 1941
Richard Courant
German American mathematician
1888 – 1972
- AP
Alan Perlis
American computer scientist
1922 – 1990
Jacques Hadamard
French mathematician
1865 – 1963
Patri Friedman
American libertarian activist and theorist of political e
b. 1976
Richard M. Karp
American theoretical computer scientist
b. 1935
Saharon Shelah
Israeli mathematician
b. 1945
Tullio Levi-Civita
Italian mathematician and physicist
1873 – 1941
Al-Samawal al-Maghribi
Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physician
c. 1130 – c. 1180
Alan Sokal
American physicist and mathematician
b. 1955
Hans Hahn
Austrian mathematician
1879 – 1934
- LL
Liviu Librescu
Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and Holocaust survivor
1930 – 2007
- MF
Mitchell Feigenbaum
American mathematical physicist
1944 – 2019
- PL
Paul Lévy
French mathematician
1886 – 1971
- WK
William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
b. 1933
- CL
Cornelius Lanczos
Hungarian mathematician and physicist
1893 – 1974
Mikhael Gromov
Russian and French mathematician and academic
b. 1943
- YE
Yakov Eliashberg
Russian-American mathematician
b. 1946
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician
1917 – 2011
- VV
Vladimir Vapnik
co-invented the support-vector machine
b. 1936
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist
1860 – 1940
Efim Zelmanov
Russian-american mathematician
b. 1955
Abraham Lempel
co-invented data compression
1936 – 2023
Jacob Ziv
co-invented data compression
b. 1931
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
1897 – 1965
- RS
Ray Solomonoff
founded algorithmic probability
1926 – 2009
- JG
John G. Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist
1926 – 1992
Elena Bunina
Mathematician and former Yandex executive
b. 1976
- AG
Alex Gerko
founder of XTX Markets
b. 1979
Avi Wigderson
2023 Turing Award, pseudorandomness
b. 1956