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Pre 16th century[edit]

The dates in these tables are approximate.

16th – 18th century[edit]

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Napier, John	1550 – 1617	Start	logarithms, arithmetic, geometry	Mid
Kepler, Johannes	1571 – 1630	B	Celestial mechanics	Mid
Descartes, René	1596 – 1650	B	Geometry	High
Fermat, Pierre de	1601 – 1665	Start	number theory	High
Pascal, Blaise	1623 – 1662	FA	projective geometry, probability theory	High
Newton, Isaac	1643 – 1727	FA	Calculus	Top
Raphson, Joseph	1648 – 1715	Start	Newton Raphson method	Low
Leibniz, Gottfried	1646 – 1716	B	Calculus. Failed Good article nomination.	Top
Moivre, Abraham de	1667 – 1754	Start	complex numbers, trigonometry	Low
Euler, Leonhard	1707 – 1763	FA	calculus, number theory, topology. FA nominee	Top
Lagrange, Joseph Louis	1736 – 1813	B	calculus of variations, celestial mechanics, differential equations	Low
Laplace, Pierre-Simon	1749 – 1827	B	differential equations, mechanics	High
Legendre, Adrien-Marie	1752 – 1833	Start	statistics, number theory, algebra	Mid
Fourier, Joseph	1768 – 1830	Start	Fourier series/Fourier transform, heat flow	Mid
Adrain, Robert	1775 – 1843	Stub	Early american mathematician	Low
Gauss, Carl Friedrich	1777 – 1855	FA	number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics	Top
Cauchy, Augustin Louis	1789 – 1857	Start	calculus, analysis	Top
Crelle, August Leopold	1780 – 1855	Stub	Founder of Crelle's Journal	Low
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich	1792 – 1856	Start	non-euclidean geometry	Mid

1800 – 1849[edit]

1850 – 1899[edit]

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Bruno Abakanowicz	1852 – 1900	Start	?	Low
Henri Poincaré	1854 – 1912	B	Broad	Top
Georg Cantor	1845 – 1918	GA	Set theory, Logic. Good article nomination.	Top
Aleksandr Lyapunov	1857 – 1918		dynamical systems	Low
David Hilbert	1862 – 1943	GA	proof theory, mathematical logic. Good article nomination.	Top
Hermann Minkowski	1864 – 1909		number theory, functional analysis, theory of relativity, linear algebra	Mid
Guido Castelnuovo	1865 – 1952		algebraic geometry (Italian school)	High
Felix Hausdorff	1868 – 1942	Start	measure theory, functional analysis, set theory, topology	Top
Élie Cartan	1869 – 1951		Lie groups	High
Ernst Zermelo	1871 – 1953		axiomatic set theory	High
Émile Borel	1871 – 1956		measure theory, analysis	Low
Federigo Enriques	1871 – 1946		algebraic geometry (Italian school)	Low
Tullio Levi-Civita	1873 – 1941		tensor calculus	Mid
Constantin Carathéodory	1873 – 1950	Stub	Analysis	Mid
Issai Schur	1875 – 1941		represenatation theory	Low
Henri Lebesgue	1875 – 1941	B	mathematical analysis, measure theory	Top
Gilbert Ames Bliss	1876 – 1951	B	calculus of variations	Low
G. H. Hardy	1877 – 1947	Start	number theory, analysis, discovery of Ramanujan	High
Maurice René Fréchet	1878 – 1973	B	topology, statistics, calculus	Mid
Francesco Severi	1879 – 1961		algebraic geometry (Italian school)	Low
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer	1881 – 1966	Start	topology, set theory, measure theory, complex analysis	High
Wacław Sierpiński	1882 – 1969	Start	set theory, topology	Mid
Emmy Nöther	1882 – 1935		algebra	High
Robert Lee Moore	1882 – 1974	B	topology - education	Low
Solomon Lefschetz	1884 – 1972		algebraic topology, differential equations, Morse theory	High
Hermann Weyl	1885 – 1955	B	manifolds, representation theory of compact Lie groups	Mid
Srinivasa Ramanujan	1887 – 1920	B	number theory	High
Selig Brodetsky	1888 – 1954	Stub	NN applied mathematics	Low
Ronald Fisher	1890 – 1962	A	Statistics single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science. Failed Good article nomination.	High
Marston Morse	1892 – 1977		Morse theory	Mid
Stefan Banach	1892 – 1945		functional analysis, pillar of the Lwów School of Mathematics	High
Kazimierz Kuratowski	1896 – 1980		set theory, topology, Polish spaces	High
Emil Artin	1898 – 1962		algebra	Mid
William James Sidis	1898 – 1944	Start	child prodigy	Low
Oscar Zariski	1899 – 1986		algebraic geometry	High

1900 – 1949[edit]

Mathematician	Dates	Quality	Field	Need
Alfred Tarski	1901 – 1983		mathematical logic, model theory, abstract algebra, set theory	High
Eugene Wigner	1902 – 1995		mathematical physics	Mid
Frank P. Ramsey	1903 – 1930	B	Combinatorics, Ramsey theory	Mid
John von Neumann	1903 – 1957		mathematical physics, set theory, theoretical computer science, economics	Mid
W. V. D. Hodge	1903 – 1975		differential geometry, algebraic topology	Mid
J. H. C. Whitehead	1904 – 1960	Stub	homotopy theory	Mid
Max August Zorn	1906 – 1993	Stub	algebra, group theory, numerical analysis	Mid
Kurt Gödel	1906 – 1978	B	Logic	Top
André Weil	1906 – 1998	B	number theory, algebraic geometry	High
Lars Ahlfors	1907 – 1996		complex analysis, Riemann surfaces	Mid
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter	1907 – 2003		geometry	High
Saunders Mac Lane	1909 – 2005	Start	category theory	High
Esther Szekeres	1910 – 2005	Start	Happy Ending problem	Low
Chern Shiing-shen	1911 – 2004	Start	differential geometery	Top
George Szekeres	1911 – 2005	Start	Happy Ending problem	Low
Alan Turing	1912 – 1954	A	A Good article, om CD-Selection, logic, computers, cryptography	High
J. Carson Mark	1913 – 1997	Stub		Low
George Dantzig	1914 – 2005	Start	linear programming	Mid
Paul Erdős	1913 – 1996		number theory	High
Atle Selberg	1917 –		number theory, automorphic forms	Unassessed
William S. Massey	1920 –	Stub	spectral sequences	Low
Raoul Bott	1923 – 2005		geometry	Mid
Harish Chandra Mehrotra	1923 – 1983		representation theory	Low
Alexander Abian	1923 – 1999	Start		Low
Armand Borel	1923 – 2003		Lie group theory	Low
Benoît Mandelbrot	1924 –		fractal geometry	Low
John Tate	1925 –		algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, algebraic K-theory	Low
Jean-Pierre Serre	1926 –	Start	algebraic geometry, number theory and topology	High
Serge Lang	1927 – 2005		number theory, algebra	Mid
Friedrich Hirzebruch	1927 –		complex manifolds, algebraic geometry	Mid
Alexander Grothendieck	1928 –	B	algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and functional analysis	Top
John Forbes Nash	1928 –	B - poor on maths	game theory	High
Michael Atiyah	1929 –		global analysis, topological K-theory	Top
Stephen Smale	1930 –	Start	h-cobordism theorem	Mid
John Milnor	1931 –		differential topology	Mid
Robert Langlands	1936 –		number theory, representation theory	High
John Horton Conway	1937 –		number theory, game theory	High
William Thurston	1946 –		low-dimensional topology, differential geometry	Mid
Paul Cohen	1934 –		model theory, axiomatic set theory	Mid
David Mumford	1937 –		algebraic geometry	Mid
Vladimir Arnold	1937 –	Start	A vital article	High
Neil Robertson	1938 –	Start	Topological graph theory	Low
Robion Kirby	1938 –	Stub	topological manifolds	Low
Pierre Deligne	1944 –		modular forms, Weil conjectures	Mid
Shing-Tung Yau	1949 –		differential geometry	Mid

1950 onwards[edit]