Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birthday/August

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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

$1861$: Ivar Otto Bendixson

$1950$: Eric Schechter

$1954$: James Gleick

$2$nd

$1927$: Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer

$1936$: George A. Grätzer

$1943$: Herbert Kenneth Kunen

$1971$: Ruth Elke Lawrence-Neimark

$3$rd

$1835$: Artemas Martin

$1887$: Otton Marcin Nikodym

$1907$: James Roy Newman

$1914$: Mark Kac

$1943$: Béla Bollobás

$4$th

$1805$: William Rowan Hamilton

$1834$: John Venn

$1909$: Saunders Mac Lane

$5$th

$1540$: Joseph Justus Scaliger

$1802$: Niels Henrik Abel

$1855$: Alfredo Capelli

$1872$: Horace Scudder Uhler

$1926$: Richard Carl Jeffrey

$1941$: Alexander Keewatin Dewdney

$6$th

$1741$: John Wilson

$1919$: Kenneth Levenberg

$1939$: John Chukwuemeka Amazigo

$7$th

$1811$: Elias Loomis

$1869$: Mary Frances Winston Newson

$1889$: Léon Nicolas Brillouin

$1896$: Lawrence Murray Graves

$1906$: Henry Nelson Goodman

$8$th

$1627$: Joseph Moxon

$1902$: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

$1912$: Ralph Philip Boas, Jr.

$1922$: John Hunter

$1931$: Roger Penrose

$9$th

$1602$: Gilles Personne de Roberval

$1923$: William Judson LeVeque

$1927$: Richard C. DiPrima

$1953$: Jean Tirole

$10$th

$1859$: Georg Alexander Pick

$1905$: Samuel L. Greitzer

$11$th

$1829$: Norman Macleod Ferrers

$1912$: Norman Levinson

$1923$: John R. Myhill

$12$th

$1862$: Jules Antoine Richard

$1882$: Thomas Eric Peet

$1887$: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

$1932$: Gwilym Meirion Jenkins

$1942$: David Peter Robbins

$13$th

$1704$: Alexis Fontaine des Bertins

$1814$: Anders Jonas Ångström

$1819$: George Gabriel Stokes

$1861$: Cesare Burali-Forti

$1925$: Kenneth L. Cooke

$1936$: Graham Robert Allan

$1954$: Andrew Pressley

$14$th

$1737$: Charles Hutton

$1777$: Hans Christian Ørsted

$1842$: Jean-Gaston Darboux

$1850$: Walter William Rouse Ball

$1866$: Charles de la Vallée Poussin

$1867$: Charles Albert Noble

$1915$: Robert Henry Sorgenfrey

$1934$: Simon Bernhard Kochen

$1948$: David Harold Bailey

$15$th

$1769$: Napoleon Bonaparte

$1893$: Leslie John Comrie

$1928$: Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo

$1957$: Clifford Alan Pickover

$16$th

$1821$: Arthur Cayley

$17$th

$1601$ or $1607/8$: Pierre de Fermat

$1926$: Lewis McAdory Branscomb

$1942$: Jerrold Eldon Marsden

$18$th

$1494$: Johannes Scheubel

$1685$: Brook Taylor

$1832$: Eugène Rouché

$1930$: James Raymond Munkres

$19$th

$1939$: Alan Baker

$20$th

$1710$: Thomas Simpson

$1899$: Salomon Bochner

$1901$: Steven Vajda

$1923$: Tom Mike Apostol

$1935$: David Pierre Ruelle

$1957$: Simon Kirwan Donaldson

$21$st

$1789$: Augustin Louis Cauchy

$1881$: Samuel Beatty

$1901$: Edward Thomas Copson

$1932$: Louis de Branges de Bourcia

$1933$: Triloki Nath Bhargava

$1951$: Roger Lee Berger

$22$nd

$1647$: Denis Papin

$1892$: Li Yan

$1903$: Antoine Isidore Marie Joseph Appert

$1922$: Andrzej Grzegorczyk

$1948$: Carsten Thomassen

$23$rd

$1776$: Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński

$1811$: Auguste Bravais

$1829$: Moritz Benedikt Cantor

$1842$: Osborne Reynolds

$1909$: Florence Nightingale David

$1919$: Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin

$1920$: William Schumacher Massey

$1929$: Anthony James Merrill Spencer

$1939$: Vitali Davidovich Milman

$24$th

$1901$: Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin

$1936$: Gary Theodore Chartrand

$1942$: Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck

$25$th

$1841$: Leo August Pochhammer

$1898$: Helmut Hasse

$1966$: Noam David Elkies

$26$th

$1728$: Johann Heinrich Lambert

$1875$: Giuseppe Vitali

$1899$: Wolfgang Krull

$1920$: Richard Ernest Bellman

$1925$: Ernest Arthur Michael

$1928$: Henry Wadsworth Gould

$1929$: Frank Ephraim Harris

$1944$: Hugh Lowell Montgomery

$1948$: Rudolf Lidl

$1951$: Edward Witten

$1965$: Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy

$27$th

$1858$: Giuseppe Peano

$28$th

$1796$: Irénée-Jules Bienaymé

$1862$: Roberto Marcolongo

$1867$: Maxime Bôcher

$1883$: Norman Herbert Anning

$1910$: Tjalling Charles Koopmans

$1911$: Shizuo Kakutani

$1939$: John Frank Charles Kingman

$29$th

$1938$: Dominic James Anthony Welsh

$1959$: Stephen Wolfram

$1966$: Grzegorz Bancerek

$30$th

$1856$: Carl David Tolmé Runge

$1871$: Ernest Rutherford

$1902$: Józef Maria Bocheński

$1919$: James Dugundji

$31$st

$1821$: Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

$1880$: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze

$1885$: Herbert Westren Turnbull

$1906$: Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller

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