Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birthday/April

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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.

-- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London

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$1$st

$1640$: Georg Mohr

$1776$: Marie-Sophie Germain

$1801$: Henry Perigal

$1895$: Alexander Craig Aitken

$1947$: Alain Connes

$2$nd

$1878$: Edward Kasner

$1914$: Daniel John O'Connor

$1921$: Abe Shenitzer

$1923$: George Spencer-Brown

$1927$: Tage Gutmann Madsen

$1928$: Harold Seymour Shapiro

$1934$: Paul Joseph Cohen

$3$rd

$1793$: Dionysius Lardner

$1900$: Albert Edward Ingham

$1907$: Mark Grigorievich Krein

$1909$: Stanisław Marcin Ulam

$4$th

$1809$: Benjamin Peirce

$1812$: Theodor Schönemann

$1834$: Edmond Nicolas Laguerre

$1842$: François Édouard Anatole Lucas

$1884$: Thomas Murray MacRobert

$1926$: Robert Lawson Vaught

$1949$: Shing-Tung Yau

$5$th

$1588$: Thomas Hobbes

$1622$: Vincenzo Viviani

$1911$: Walter Warwick Sawyer

$1936$: Roshdi Rashed

$1945$: Martin Golubitsky

$6$th

$1955$: William F. Clocksin

$7$th

$1768$: François Joseph Français

$1866$: Erik Ivar Fredholm

$1923$: Peter John Hilton

$8$th

$1903$: Marshall Harvey Stone

$1929$: François Georges René Bruhat

$1962$: Rafael Lahoz-Beltra

$9$th

$1865$: Charles Proteus Steinmetz

$1869$: Élie Joseph Cartan

$1928$: Thomas Andrew Lehrer

$1938$: David Williams

$10$th

$1651$: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus

$1857$: Henry Ernest Dudeney

$11$th

$1904$: Philip Hall

$1907$: Henry Scheffé

$1921$: Leo Moser

$1953$: Andrew John Wiles

$12$th

$1794$: Germinal Pierre Dandelin

$1852$: Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann

$1883$: Clarence Irving Lewis

$1944$: Vaughan Ronald Pratt

$13$th

$1799$: Fortuné Landry

$1951$: Ariel Rubinstein

$14$th

$1629$: Christiaan Huygens

$1920$: Donald Cecil Pack

$1921$: Thomas Crombie Schelling

$1937$: Charles Coffin Sims

$15$th

$1452$: Leonardo da Vinci

$1548$: Pietro Antonio Cataldi

$1710$: Leonhard Paul Euler

$1809$: Hermann Günter Grassmann

$1927$: Robert Laurence Mills

$1936$: Herbert Bruce Enderton

$16$th

$1495$: Petrus Apianus

$1682$: John Hadley

$1823$: Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein

$1873$: Alfred Young

$1894$: Jerzy Neyman

$1898$: Hellmuth Kneser

$1915$: Daniel Martin

$1919$: Thomas James Willmore

$1946$: Barry Martin Simon

$1949$: Hendrik Willem Lenstra Jr.

$17$th

$1853$: Arthur Moritz Schönflies

$1945$: Alan Enoch Gelfand

$18$th

$1907$: Lars Valerian Ahlfors

$1949$: Charles Louis Fefferman

$19$th

$1867$: James Cullen

$1883$: Richard Edler von Mises

$1885$: Leonida Tonelli

$1905$: Josef Novák

$1921$: Leon Albert Henkin

$20$th

$1923$: Jacob Cohen

$1927$: Geoffrey Stephenson

$1946$: Richard Peirce Brent

$1948$: Paul Robert Milgrom

$21$st

$1652$: Michel Rolle

$1774$: Jean-Baptiste Biot

$1882$: Percy Williams Bridgman

$1882$: Maurice Kraitchik

$1903$: Isaac Jacob Schoenberg

$1909$: Eduard Ludwig Stiefel

$1951$: Michael Hartley Freedman

$22$nd

$1797$: Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille

$1811$: Ludwig Otto Hesse

$1891$: Harold Jeffreys

$1903$: John Francis Riordan

$1910$: Norman Earl Steenrod

$1929$: Michael Francis Atiyah

$23$rd

$1628$: Johannes van Waveren Hudde

$1858$: Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

$24$th

$1620$: John Graunt

$1899$: Oscar Zariski

$1919$: Richard Friederich Arens

$1919$: David Harold Blackwell

$25$th

$1849$: Felix Christian Klein

$1853$: Frederick Haller Stevens

$1879$: Edwin Bidwell Wilson

$1900$: Wolfgang Ernst Pauli

$1903$: Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov

$1915$: Lynn Harold Loomis

$1947$: Jeremy John Gray

$26$th

$1819$: Andrew Hollingworth Frost

$1874$: Edward Vermilye Huntington

$1889$: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

$1927$: Michel André Kervaire

$1936$: Malcolm E. Lines

$1943$: Ralph William Gosper, Jr.

$1943$: Thomas A. Whitelaw

$27$th

$1755$: Marc-Antoine Parseval

$1837$: Paul Albert Gordan

$1884$: Arthur Josef Alwin Wieferich

$1932$: Gian-Carlo Rota

$28$th

$1831$: Peter Guthrie Tait

$1854$: Hertha Marks Ayrton

$1906$: Kurt Friedrich Gödel

$1937$: David Herbert Fowler

$29$th

$1854$: Jules Henri Poincaré

$1876$: Paul Antoine Aristide Montel

$1936$: Volker Strassen

$30$th

$1777$: Carl Friedrich Gauss

$1908$: John Charles Chenoweth McKinsey

$1916$: Claude Elwood Shannon

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