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
Norbert Wiener26 November 1894
Father of Cybernetics
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899
Physicist, Mathematician
Edwin Powell Hubble20 November 1889
Astronomer & Mathematician
Josiah Willard Gibbs11 February 1839
Scientist
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Percival Lowell13 March 1855
Astronomer, Mathematician
Simon Newcomb12 March 1835
Astronomer, Mathematician, Economist, Novelist,
Harry Nyquist07 February 1889
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Solomon Lefschetz03 September 1884
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
George David Birkhoff21 March 1884
Mathematician
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Oswald Veblen24 June 1880
Mathematician
Frank Nelson ColeRichard C. Tolman04 March 1881
Physicist
Warren Weaver17 June 1894
mathematician, university teacher, computer
Eric Temple Bell07 February 1883
Mathematician, Historian of mathematics, Novelist,
Orson Pratt
Edward Kasner
Benjamin Peirce04 April 1809
Mathematician
Jesse Douglas03 July 1897
Mathematician
Agnes Meyer Driscoll24 July 1889
Cryptologist
Florian CajoriSalomon Bochner20 August 1899
Mathematician
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Henry Seely White
Max Dehn
Leonard Eugene Dickson
Edwin Bidwell Wilson25 April 1879
Mathematician
Maxime Bôcher
Hubert Anson Newton
Francis Robbins Upton
Robert Adrain30 September 1775
Mathematician
Carl Georg Barth
Kelly Miller18 July 1863
American mathematician