ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Canada

For more comprehensive information on the lives and works of mathematicians through the ages, see the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, created by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson.

"The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten."

Canada

Ivan Morton Niven

1915 – 1999

Canadian-American mathematician, most noted for solving most of Waring's Problem.

Also notable for Niven Numbers and Niven's Constant.
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Kenneth Eugene Iverson

1920 – 2004

Canadian computer scientist best known for his invention of the computer language APL.

Also known for the notation known as Iverson's convention.
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Donald Bruce Gillies

1928 – 1975

Canadian mathematician and computer scientist.

In 1963, discovered the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Mersenne primes with the aid of the ILLIAC II computer. The largest of these ($2^{11 \ 213} - 1$) was reported in the Guinness Book of Records and immortalised on all mail sent from the postroom of the University of Illinois.
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Alexander Keewatin Dewdney

b. 1941

Canadian mathematician, computer scientist and philosopher.

Between 1984 and 1993, he took over from Douglas Hofstadter the task of writing the Metamagical Themas column in Scientific American, which he renamed to Computer Recreations, then Mathematical Recreations.
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