Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Mathematicians, including George Boole, Ada Lovelace, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Lewis Carroll and David Hilbert.
Srinivasa Ramanujan22 December 1887, Indian
Mathematician
Ada Lovelace10 December 1815, British
Countess of Lovelace
Bertrand Russell18 May 1872, British, Welsh
Philosopher
Lewis Carroll27 January 1832, British
Author, Mathematician and Photographer
David Hilbert23 January 1862, German
Mathematician
Georg Cantor03 March 1845, German, Russian
Mathematician
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749, French
Scientist
George Boole02 November 1815, British
Mathematician, Philosopher and Logician
Max Born11 December 1882, German
Physicist
Emmy Noether23 March 1882, German
Mathematician
G. H. Hardy07 February 1877, British
Mathematician
Alfred North Whitehead15 February 1861, British, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
Bernhard Riemann17 September 1826, German
Mathematician
Évariste Galois25 October 1811, French
Mathematician
Ronald Ross13 May 1857, British
Medical doctor
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768, French
Mathematician & Physicist
Sophie Germain01 April 1776, French
Mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789, French
Mathematician
Arthur Eddington28 December 1882, British
Astronomer
Niels Henrik Abel05 August 1802, Norwegian
Mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752, French
Mathematician
John Venn04 August 1834, British
Mathematician
Hermann Minkowski22 June 1864, German
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet13 August 1819, British
Mathematician
Karl Weierstrass31 October 1815, German
Mathematician
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi10 December 1804, German
Mathematician
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet13 February 1805, German
Mathematician
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824, British
Mathematician, Physicist
Richard Dedekind06 October 1831, German
Mathematician
William Henry Bragg02 July 1862, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Christian Doppler29 November 1803, Austrian
Mathematician & Physicist
Arthur Cayley16 August 1821, British
Mathematician
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Igor Tamm08 July 1895, Russian
Physicist
Charles Hermite24 December 1822, French
Mathematician
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician
Carl Ludwig Siegel31 December 1896, German
Mathematician
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899, American
Physicist, Mathematician
Paul Bernays17 October 1888, Swiss
Mathematician
Edward Arthur Milne14 February 1896, British
Astrophysicist
Henri Poincare29 April 1854, French
Mathematician and Philosopher
James Maxwell13 June 1831, Scottish
Mathematician & Physicist
Edwin Powell Hubble20 November 1889, American
Astronomer & Mathematician
Sir William Rowan Hamilton04 August 1805, Irish
Physicist, Astronomer and Mathematician
Felix Christian Klein25 April 1849, German
Mathematician
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl09 November 1885, German
Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
James Clerk MaxwellBritish, Scottish
Mary Somerville26 December 1780, British, Scottish
Mathematician, Linguist, Translator, Astronomer,
Charles Sanders Peirce10 September 1839, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, Logician, Pragmatist,
Ronald Fisher17 February 1890, British
Mathematician, Geneticist, Statistician
Edmund Husserl08 April 1859, Austrian, Czech, German
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher
Oswald Spengler29 May 1880, German
Writer, Historian, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Karl Schwarzschild09 October 1873, German
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University
Norbert Wiener26 November 1894, American
Mathematician, Autobiographer, University teacher,
Joseph-Louis Lagrange25 January 1736, French, Italian
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, Politician,
Gottlob Frege08 November 1848, German
Mathematician, Logician, Analytic philosopher,
Karl Pearson27 March 1857, British
Mathematician, Historian of mathematics,
William Rowan Hamilton04 August 1805, Irish
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Scientist,
José Ortega y Gasset09 May 1883, Spanish
Philosopher, Educationist, Writer, University
Oliver Heaviside18 May 1850, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Telegraphy
S. R. Ranganathan09 August 1892, Indian
Mathematician, Librarian, Academic
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865, German, American
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Charles Wheatstone06 February 1802, British
Cryptographer, Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer,
Sofia KovalevskayaRussian
Emanuel LaskerGerman, Polish
Josiah Willard GibbsAmerican
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Scientist
Hermann Weyl09 November 1885, German, American
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, University
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781, French
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University
John Edensor Littlewood09 June 1885, British
Mathematician, University teacher
Felix Klein25 April 1849, German
Mathematician, Historian of mathematics,
Percival Lowell13 March 1855, American
Astronomer, Mathematician
François Arago26 February 1786, Spanish, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Andrey Markov02 June 1856, Russian
mathematician, statistician, university teacher
Léon Walras16 December 1834, French
Economist, University teacher, Mathematician
Rudolf Clausius02 January 1822, German
Physicist, University teacher, Mathematician,
Pafnuty Chebyshev04 May 1821, Russian
mathematician, statistician
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753, French
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Paul Ehrenfest18 January 1880, Austrian
Physicist, Theoretical physicist, University
Stefan Banach30 March 1892, Polish
Mathematician, University teacher
Simon Newcomb12 March 1835, Canadian, American
Astronomer, Mathematician, Economist, Novelist,
Giuseppe Peano27 August 1858, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher
Jerzy Neyman16 April 1894, Polish
Mathematician, Philosopher, Statistician
Alexander Friedmann16 June 1888, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Alastair Denniston01 December 1881, British
Field hockey player, Cryptographer, Mathematician
Harry Nyquist07 February 1889, Swedish, American
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
August Ferdinand MöbiusGerman
Urbain Le Verrier11 March 1811, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Politician
Leopold Kronecker07 December 1823, German, Polish
Mathematician, University teacher
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746, French
Mathematician, Politician, Physicist, University
Jacques Hadamard08 December 1865, French
Mathematician, Professor
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773, American
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Aleksandr Lyapunov06 June 1857, Russian
mathematician, physicist
Friedrich Bessel22 July 1784, German
Astronomer, Mathematician, University teacher
George Biddell Airy27 July 1801, British
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University
John Couch Adams05 June 1819, British
Mathematician, Astronomer, University teacher