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
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749, French
Scientist
Georg Cantor03 March 1845, German, Russian
Mathematician
Max Born11 December 1882, German
Physicist
G. H. Hardy07 February 1877, British
Mathematician
Emmy Noether23 March 1882, German
Mathematician
George Boole02 November 1815, British
Mathematician, Philosopher and Logician
Bernhard Riemann17 September 1826, German
Mathematician
Alfred North Whitehead15 February 1861, British, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
Évariste Galois25 October 1811, French
Mathematician
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768, French
Mathematician & Physicist
Ronald Ross13 May 1857, British
Medical doctor
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789, French
Mathematician
Arthur Eddington28 December 1882, British
Astronomer
Sophie Germain01 April 1776, French
Mathematician
Karl Weierstrass31 October 1815, German
Mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752, French
Mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel05 August 1802, Norwegian
Mathematician
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet13 February 1805, German
Mathematician
Hermann Minkowski22 June 1864, German
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi10 December 1804, German
Mathematician
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet13 August 1819, British
Mathematician
John Venn04 August 1834, British
Mathematician
William Henry Bragg02 July 1862, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Richard Dedekind06 October 1831, German
Mathematician
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824, British
Mathematician, Physicist
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
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899, American
Physicist, Mathematician
Edward Arthur Milne14 February 1896, British
Astrophysicist
Paul Bernays17 October 1888, Swiss
Mathematician
Carl Ludwig Siegel31 December 1896, German
Mathematician
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician
James Maxwell13 June 1831, Scottish
Mathematician & Physicist
Sir William Rowan Hamilton04 August 1805, Irish
Physicist, Astronomer and Mathematician
Henri Poincare29 April 1854, French
Mathematician and Philosopher
Edwin Powell Hubble20 November 1889, American
Astronomer & 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 Maxwell13 June 1831, British, Scottish
Scientist
Edmund Husserl08 April 1859, Austrian, Czech, German
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher
Oswald Spengler29 May 1880, German
Writer, Historian, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Norbert Wiener26 November 1894, American
Mathematician, Autobiographer, University teacher,
Oliver Heaviside18 May 1850, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Telegraphy
Gottlob Frege08 November 1848, German
Mathematician, Logician, Analytic philosopher,
Karl Pearson27 March 1857, British
Mathematician, Historian of mathematics,
José Ortega y Gasset09 May 1883, Spanish
Philosopher, Educationist, Writer, University
Charles Wheatstone06 February 1802, British
Cryptographer, Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer,
Mary Somerville26 December 1780, British, Scottish
Mathematician, Linguist, Translator, Astronomer,
Karl Schwarzschild09 October 1873, German
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University
Paul Ehrenfest18 January 1880, Austrian
Physicist, Theoretical physicist, University
Sofia KovalevskayaRussian
Emanuel LaskerGerman, Polish
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781, French
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University
Josiah Willard Gibbs11 February 1839, American
Scientist
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865, German, American
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
François Arago26 February 1786, Spanish, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Andrey Markov02 June 1856, Russian
mathematician, statistician, university teacher
Pafnuty Chebyshev04 May 1821, Russian
mathematician, statistician
S. R. Ranganathan09 August 1892, Indian
Mathematician, Librarian, Academic
Léon Walras16 December 1834, French
Economist, University teacher, Mathematician
George Biddell Airy27 July 1801, British
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University
Jerzy Neyman16 April 1894, Polish
Mathematician, Philosopher, Statistician
John Edensor Littlewood09 June 1885, British
Mathematician, University teacher
Rudolf Clausius02 January 1822, German
Physicist, University teacher, Mathematician,
Alexander Friedmann16 June 1888, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Percival Lowell13 March 1855, American
Astronomer, Mathematician
Stefan Banach30 March 1892, Polish
Mathematician, University teacher
Simon Newcomb12 March 1835, Canadian, American
Astronomer, Mathematician, Economist, Novelist,
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753, French
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Urbain Le Verrier11 March 1811, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Politician
Giuseppe Peano27 August 1858, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher
Harry Nyquist07 February 1889, Swedish, American
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Leopold Kronecker07 December 1823, German, Polish
Mathematician, University teacher
George Darwin09 July 1845, British
Mathematician, Astronomer
William Kingdon Clifford04 May 1845, British
Mathematician
Jacques Hadamard08 December 1865, French
Mathematician, Professor
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746, French
Mathematician, Politician, Physicist, University
Aleksandr Lyapunov06 June 1857, Russian
mathematician, physicist
Henri Lebesgue28 June 1875, French
Mathematician, Professor
August Ferdinand MöbiusGerman
Friedrich Bessel22 July 1784, German
Astronomer, Mathematician, University teacher
Alastair Denniston01 December 1881, British
Field hockey player, Cryptographer, Mathematician
Emil Artin03 March 1898, Austrian
Mathematician
John Couch Adams05 June 1819, British
Mathematician, Astronomer, University teacher
Constantin Carathéodory13 September 1873, Greek
mathematician, university teacher
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773, American
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Solomon Lefschetz03 September 1884, American
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Felix Hausdorff08 November 1868, German, Polish
Mathematician, Writer, Topologist, University