Find out more about the greatest 19th Century American Mathematicians, including Charles Sanders Peirce, Alfred North Whitehead, Norbert Wiener, Josiah Willard Gibbs and Nathaniel Bowditch.
Alfred North Whitehead15 February 1861
Mathematician, Philosopher
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899
Physicist, Mathematician
Edwin Powell Hubble20 November 1889
Astronomer & Mathematician
Charles Sanders Peirce10 September 1839
Mathematician, Philosopher, Logician, Pragmatist,
Norbert Wiener26 November 1894
Mathematician, Autobiographer, University teacher,
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Hermann Weyl09 November 1885
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, University
Percival Lowell13 March 1855
Astronomer, Mathematician
Simon Newcomb12 March 1835
Astronomer, Mathematician, Economist, Novelist,
Harry Nyquist07 February 1889
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Solomon Lefschetz03 September 1884
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Warren Weaver17 June 1894
mathematician, university teacher, computer
Frank Nelson Cole
Orson Pratt
Eric Temple Bell07 February 1883
Mathematician, Historian of mathematics, Novelist,
Edward Kasner
Benjamin Peirce
Florian Cajori
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Henry Seely White
Max Dehn
Leonard Eugene Dickson
Edwin Bidwell Wilson
Ernest William Brown
Maxime Bôcher
Hubert Anson Newton
Francis Robbins Upton
Robert Adrain
Carl Georg Barth
Kelly Miller18 July 1863
American mathematician