Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695) - Dutch physicist who was the leading proponent of the wave theory of Light, was also the mentor of Leibniz in math and mechanics.

Woltman, George - GIMPS The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - GIMPS is dedicated to a rigorous search for new Mersenne primes. Our goal is to test every Mersenne number with an exponent less than 20,500,000.

Joyce - David Joyce's Home Page - Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610. Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979. Research interests: mathematics and computer science.

Rota, Gian-Carlo (1932-1999) - Memorial site.

Buffon - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) - Proposed the Buffon's Needle Problem, which asks the probability that a needle of length l will fall on a line when a piece of paper is ruled with parallel lines a distance d apart.

Clifford A. Pickover's Home Page - Clifford A. Pickover Page on Creativity and the Mind, Computer Art, and More.

Cohen, Don - The MATHMAN - What parents, teachers, kids, Martin Gardner, Morris Klein, W.W. Sawyer, the MAA, the ASCD, Kodansha, Mary Pride in her 'Big Book of Home Learning', The Home Schooling magazine say about Don's materials

Kanada - Yasusi Kanada's Hub Page - Papers on information extraction, search and organization. Explanation of self-reproductive Web page. CCM (Chemical Casting Model) is a model for emergent computation.

Merriman - Barry Merriman - Genetics, Nuclear fusion energy ( UCLA , UCSD), Software for modeling complex fluid flows Numerical Methods

Somos - Michael Somos at CSU Home Page - Interested in mathematics and computers, particularly software like Linux and Forth, Four Color Theorem, knot theory, Somos Polynomials, rational triangles, the busy beaver Turing Machine contest.

Plouffe - Page Maison de Simon Plouffe's Home Page - Plouffe's Inverter : 85 million constants on-line, latest records of computations of constants, Identities for Zeta(2*n+1) found using LLL algorithm inspired by Ramanujan Notebooks

Fields, John Charles - brief biography with links to information about the Fields medal

Krawtchouk Polynomials and Krawtchouk's Biography - Krawtchouk polynomials properties, applications, bibliography M.Krawtchouk's biography - instructive reading not only for mathematicians but for all who are interested in Soviet history.

The Fuller Map - A study of the comprehensive designer Buckminster Fuller, an outstanding character of the 20th century, and a kind of practical visionary.

Kurt Mahler 1903-1988 - Biography at Australian Academy of Science.

Ganitanjali: Scholar In India - An appreciation of the life of this mathematics teacher and researcher: "...a smartly dressed tall gentleman wearing panchakatcham dhoti, coat and turban, with a permanent smile on his face and kindness in his eyes."

Kronecker - Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) - Primary contributions were in the theory of equations and higher algebra; elliptic functions, theory of algebraic equations, and the theory of algebraic numbers.

Ramanujan, Srinivasa - Life, events, achievements, chronology of this mathematical genius.

Fisher - Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) - Made important discoveries in statistics (eg. maximum likelihood), genetics, selection and (genetic) dominance. It could be said that he invented a large part of modern statistics.

Eratosthenes (276?-196? BC) - Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and poet, who measured the circumference of the earth with extraordinary accuracy

The History of Mathematics - History of Mathematics archive at the School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin.

Möbius - August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868) - best known for his work in topology, especially for his conception of the Möbius strip, a two dimensional surface with only one side.

Hamilton - Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) - Characteristic Function in Optics, General Method in Dynamics, Equations of the Fifth Degree, Quaternions

Neumann, John von (1903-1957) - built a solid framework for quantum mechanics, worked in game theory, pioneers of computer science, von Neumann algebras, development of the hydrogen bomb

Poincare - Henri Poincare (1854-1912) - ounded the modern qualitative theory of dynamical systems, created topology, The Problem of Three Bodies and the Equations of Equilibrium, the first signs of Chaos

Lanczos - Cornelius Lanczos (1893-1974) - Home page of the Cornelius Lanczos Collected Published Papers with Commentaries.

Keith, Michael - Mike Keith's World of Words, Numbers, and Notes - A puzzle-poem, Alphametic puzzles, numerical chess problem, Polygonal Pi Patterns, The Number of the Beast 666

Taylor, Brook (1685-1731) - Invented the method for expanding functions in terms of polynomials about an arbitrary point known as Taylor Series, Taylor series were a generalization of the Maclaurin Series.

Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 200-284 ) - Best known for his Arithmetica, a work on the theory of numbers, a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations.

NAPIER - JOHN NAPIER (1550-1617) - PHILOSOPHER and MATHEMATICIAN, INVENTOR of LOGARITHMS, INVENTOR of the DECIMAL POINT.

Tartaglia - Niccolo Fontana known as Tartaglia (1499-1557) - Few European mathematicians of the 16th century had been as directly affected by war, In 1512 he received a facial wound during the sack of Brescia by the French. Left with a speech defect he adopted the nickname of Tartaglia ('stammerer').

Briggs, Henry (1561-1630) - His work in mathematics was devoted to making computation more easy, known for his publication of tables of logarithms to the base 10, first Logarithmorum chilias prima, 1617, and later Arithmetica logarithmetica, 1624.

Remus Floricel's Home Page - Some information about operator algebras.

Argand - Jean Robert Argand (1768-1822) - Accountant, amateur mathematician, famed for his geometrical interpretation of the complex numbers where i is interpreted as a rotation through 90, gave concept of the modulus of a complex number.

Offner - Carl Offner - Includes: 1. Expository papers in mathematics and computer science. 2. A critique of dumbing down of mathematics and science education, as proposed by Theodore Sizer and some other educational theorists.

Viète - Francois Viète (1540-1603) - Introduced the first systematic algebraic notation, during the war with Spain (1590), Viète served Henry IV of France and deciphered the Spanish code in intercepted messages.

Edmund Landau and the Hebrew University - The story of Landau's relations with the just-founded Hebrew University: an intricate drama, in which academic considerations were mixed with questions of power and prestige.

Ackermann, Wilhelm (1896-1962) - Wilhelm Ackermann was a mathematical logician who worked with Hilbert in Göttingen. See Ackermann's function in today's textbooks.

Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782) - Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and gave their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.

Poncelet - Jean Victor Poncelet (1788-1867) - His development of the pole and polar lines associated with conics led to the principle of duality, applied mechanics to improve turbines and waterwheels more than doubling the efficiency of the waterwheel.

Dirichlet - Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859) - Proved that in any arithmetic progression with first term coprime to the difference there are infinitely many primes, units in algebraic number theory, ideals, proposed the modern definition of a function.

Erlang, Agner Krarup (1878-1929) - Early telecom theorist, after whom a unit of measurement and a programming language are named.

Noll - Landon Curt Noll's home page - Chongo, prime, Mersenne, computer, programmer, calc, lavarand, number theory, crytography, crytoplogy, Usenet, INN, bio, biography, vita, resume.

Pearson, Karl (1857-1936) - Applied statistics to biological problems of heredity and evolution.

Claude Shannon (1916-2001) - Obituary from The Times of London. Shannon is known for having singlehandedly laid down the general rules of modern information theory.

Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob (1804-1851) - Elliptic functions, determinant theory, theory of numbers, theory of both ordinary and partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, the three-body problem, and other dynamical problems.

Banach - The Life of Stefan Banach (1892-1945) - Review of Roman Kaluza's 1996 book The Life of Stefan Banach

Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) - Catalogued stars, predicted a planet beyond Uranus as well as the existence of dark stars, investigated Johann Kepler's problem of heliocentricity, and systematized the mathematical functions involved, which now bear his name.

Noether, Max (1844-1921) - One of the leaders of nineteenth century algebraic geometry.

Birkhoff - George David Birkhoff (1884-1944) - First dynamicist in the New World, picked up where Poincare left off, created a rigorous theory of ergodic behavior, and foresaw dynamical models for chaos.

Weierstraß - Karl Weierstraß (1815-1897) - German mathematician who is considered the father of modern Analysis. His father enrolled him in law school, where Weierstraß majored in fencing and beer-drinking. He left without his degree.

De Morgan - Augustus De Morgan (1806- 1871) - Important innovator in the field of logic, developed De Morgan's rule to determine the convergence of a mathematical series.

Machin, John (1680-1751) - Machin's Method of Approximating Pi, PI = 16 arctan(1/5) - 4 arctan(1/239).

Noether - Emmy Amalie Noether (1882-1935) - Best known for her contributions to abstract algebra, in particular, her study of chain conditions on ideals of rings, father was Max Noether.

Stirling, James (1692-1770) - Studied infinite series, summation, interpolation and quadrature.

Peano, Giuseppe (1858-1932) - Pioneer in mathematical logic and axiomatization of mathematics, important discoveries in the field of analysis, leading authoritie on auxiliary languages.

Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) - Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given number, wrote an important book on the theory of congruences, proved that there was always at least one prime between n and 2n for n > 3.

Stokes - George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) - Established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity.

Seki - Takakazu Seki Kowa (1642-1708) - Born into a samurai warrior family, Seki derives from the noble family who adopted him, an infant prodigy in mathematics, self-educated in mathematics, known as 'The Arithmetical Sage', a term which is carved on his tombstone.

Marvin Minsky - Features texts, interviews, excerpts, and a bibliography going back to his Bachelors thesis in mathematics at Harvard.

Simpson, Thomas (1710-1761) - Best remembered for his work on interpolation and numerical methods of integration, first job was as a weaver, taught mathematics privately, write texts on mathematics.

Kustaa Inkeri, Portrait of a Mathematician - Kustaa Inkeri is the author of significant papers on number theory, especially on topics related to Fermat's Last Theorem. Finnish mathematicians know Inkeri as the founder of the school of number theory in Finland.

Russell - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) - British philosopher, logician, essayist, and renowned peace advocate.

Severi - Francesco Severi (1879-1961) - His most important contributions are to algebraic geometry, work on enumerative geometry and birational geometry of surfaces.

Jordan - Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (1838-1922) - Introduced important topological concepts in 1866, was particularly interested in the theory of finite groups.

L'Hospital - Guillaume François Antoine l'Hospital, Marquis de St.-Mesme (1661-1704) - Put together the first treatise on calculus, published in 1696 under the title Analyse des infiniment petits.

Lie - Sophus Lie (1842-1899) - His study of contact transformations arising from partial differential equations led him to develop Lie groups. This is now a central part of 20th-century mathematics, important in quantum theory.

Memories of Professor Kenkichi Iwasawa - by Ralph Greenberg

Pan Chengdong (1934-1997) - A short obituary.

Goldbach, Christian (1690-1764) - Did important work in number theory, much of it in correspondence with Euler, best remembered for his conjecture that every even integer greater than 2 can be represented as the sum of two primes.

Ivan Niven (1915-1999) - A brief obituary.

Riemann,Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) - Biography and publications.

Eratosthenes Hub - Links to information and resources for Eratosthenes.

Profiles of Three Mathematicians - Profiles of N.I. Muskhelishvili, N.E.Joukovsky and Horace Lamb.

Descartes: The Renaissance Man (1596 - 1650) - An imaginary conversation with Rene Descartes on his philosophies and ideas. An interesting way to understand a great mathematician.

Lebesgue - Henri Léon Lebesgue (1875-1941) - Formulated the theory of measure in 1901 and in 1902 gave the definition of the Lebesgue integral.

Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) - In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes he proved that pi is incommensurable.

John Knopfmacher (1937-1999) - A brief obituary.

Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) - One of the all-time greats, Gauss began to show his mathematical brilliance at the early age of seven. He is usually credited with the first proof of The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.

Lipschitz - Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (1832-1903) - Worked on quadratic differential forms and mechanics. His work on the Hamilton-Jacobi method for integrating the equations of motion of a general dynamical system led to important applications in celestial mechanics.

Hesse - Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811-1874) - Main work was in the development of the theory algebraic functions and the theory of invariants. He introduced the Hessian determinant in a paper in 1842 during an investigation of cubic and quadratic curves.

Whitehead - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) - British mathematician, logician and philosopher, in collaboration with Bertrand Russell, authored the landmark three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910, 1912, 1913).

Weyl - Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) - The greatest mathematician of his generation, Weyl made major contributions to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory, and created a new branch of mathematics by uniting function theory and geometry, worked with Einstein.

Moivre - Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) - Pioneer in PROBABILITY theory and TRIGONOMETRY, discovered the approximation of the BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION known as the NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. He also investigated mortality statistics, devised DE MOIVRE'S THEOREM.

Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789-1857) - Cauchy contributed to almost every branch of mathematics. He is probably best known for his important contributions to real and complex analysis.

Jaime Escalante - Biography of a wonderful math teacher of inner city high schoolers in East Los Angeles.

Van Ceulen, Ludolph (1540-1610) - Famed for his calculation of pi to 35 places, engraved on his memorial in the Pieterkerk, Leiden.