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Favorite Mathematicians

Contribute to our list of Favorite Mathematicians! Famous or obscure, some are largely unknown because they were women, engineers, surveyors or some combination of less recognized groups. Check out the list. You can add to the list if you have a Cornell login. In most cases, the name in the list corresponds to the primary Wikipedia page for that person so you can readily learn more. We draw from this list to name Breakout Rooms in the MSC Zoom Meeting.

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Name as it appears in Wikipedia	Other Reference which might be of interest
Albert Einstein
Mileva Marić
Leonhard Euler
Emmy Noether
Simon Stevin
Euclid
Pythagoras
Ada Lovelace
Guillaume de l'Hôpital
Hypatia
Bernoulli
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Émilie du Châtelet	https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-pregnant-scientist-who-raced-against-death-to-transform-physics
Isaac Newton
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Charles Babbage
Claude Shannon
Betty Shannon	https://getpocket.com/explore/item/betty-shannon-unsung-mathematical-genius
Margaret Hamilton	https://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/
Ellen Fetter	https://www.quantamagazine.org/hidden-heroines-of-chaos-ellen-fetter-and-margaret-hamilton-20190520/
Sofya Kovalevskaya
Caspar Wessel	https://www.google.com/books/edition/On_the_Analytical_Representation_of_Dire/44ii3Ke8LogC
Katherine Johnson
Oliver Byrne (mathematician)
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Hedy Lamarr	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6752848/
Grace Hopper
Mary Somerville	http://relprime.com/somervilles/
Julia Robinson	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Robinson
Kurt Gödel	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del
Aryabhata
Williamina Fleming
Alan Turing
Bernhard Riemann
Thomas Stieltjes
Henri Lebesgue
Camille Jordan
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Henri Poincaré
Hermann Schwarz
D.R. Kaprekar
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Jospeh Fourier
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Satyendranath Bose
Abdus Salam
David Hilbert
William Rowan Hamilton

-- Dick Furnas - 2020-09-18

Comments

-- vzk 2 - 2020-11-06

(Oops, sorry about the empty comment.)

For naming a breakout room I suggest R. H. Bing, who came up with the house-with-two-rooms example in topology.

-- vzk 2 - 2020-11-06

Topic revision: r17 - 2021-03-18 - DickFurnas