Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birthday/December

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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

$1792$: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

$1835$: Louis Saalschütz

$2$nd

$1831$: Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond

$1854$: Isaak Bacharach

$1873$: Heinrich Dörrie

$1902$: Hubert Stanley Wall

$3$rd

$1921$: Angelo Margaris

$1921$: Geoffrey Stuart Watson

$1924$: John Warner Backus

$1936$: Howard Jerome Keisler

$4$th

$1806$: John Thomas Graves

$1882$: Yakov Isidorovich Perelman

$1886$: Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach

$1919$: Donald Kalish

$1938$: George Eyre Andrews

$1946$: Ingmar Lehmann

$1965$: Gyula Y. Katona

$5$th

$1863$: Paul Painlevé

$1868$: Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld

$1901$: Werner Karl Heisenberg

$1943$: Robin James Wilson

$6$th

$1806$: Christian Ramus

$1856$: Walther Franz Anton von Dyck

$1907$: John Barkley Rosser Sr.

$1916$: John Leroy Kelley

$7$th

$1647$: Giovanni Benedetto Ceva

$1823$: Leopold Kronecker

$1830$: Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona

$1924$: Mary Ellen Rudin

$1943$: Nicholas Michael Katz

$8$th

$1865$: Jacques Salomon Hadamard

$1919$: Julia Hall Bowman Robinson

$1919$: Ian Naismith Sneddon

$1925$: Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins

$1947$: William Wade Dunham

$9$th

$1571$: Adriaan Metius

$1667$: William Whiston

$1839$: Gustav Roch

$1895$: Lancelot Thomas Hogben

$1900$: Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham

$1916$: Irving John Good

$1917$: Sergei Vasilovich Fomin

$1927$: Reuben Hersh

$10$th

$1804$: Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

$1815$: Augusta Ada Lovelace

$1901$: Frank J. Ayres, Jr.

$1927$: Adrianus Johannes Wilhelmus Duijvestijn

$11$th

$1840$: Carl Johannes Thomae

$1882$: Max Born

$1927$: Walter Gautschi

$1948$: Mordechai Ben-Ari

$12$th

$1832$: Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow

$1899$: Ruel Vance Churchill

$1906$: Nelson James Dunford

$1950$: Eric Stark Maskin

$13$th

$1887$: George Pólya

$1891$: Hubert Phillips

$1904$: William Hunter McCrea

$1908$: Leon Bankoff

$1910$: Charles Alfred Coulson

$14$th

$1546$: Tycho Brahe

$1936$: Charles Terence Clegg Wall

$1939$: Stephen Arthur Cook

$1965$: Clifford Seth Stein

$15$th

$1731$: Francis Maseres

$1802$: János Bolyai

$1847$: Achille Marie Gaston Floquet

$1852$: Antoine Henri Becquerel

$1924$: Frank William John Olver

$16$th

$1637$: William Neile

$1804$: Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky

$1849$: Gyula Kőnig

$1887$: Johann Karl August Radon

$1905$: Piet Hein

$17$th

$1619$: Prince Rupert of the Rhine

$1797$: Joseph Henry

$1835$: Felice Casorati

$1842$: Marius Sophus Lie

$1898$: Joseph Oscar Irwin

$1908$: Willard Frank Libby

$1920$: Kenneth Eugene Iverson

$18$th

$1856$: Joseph John Thomson

$1917$: Roger Conant Lyndon

$1926$: Thomas C. Bartee

$1936$: Bernd Fischer

$19$th

$1783$: Charles Julien Brianchon

$1887$: Charles Galton Darwin

$1910$: Helmut Wielandt

$1918$: Leon Mirsky

$1924$: Ronald Cedric Read

$1930$: William Edward Boyce

$1937$: Barry Charles Mazur

$1944$: Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum

$20$th

$1494$: Oronce Finé

$1838$: Edwin Abbott Abbott

$1843$: Paul Tannery

$1875$: Francesco Paolo Cantelli

$1932$: Dirk van Dalen

$1950$: Geoffrey Richard Grimmett

$21$st

$1773$: Robert Brown

$1878$: Jan Łukasiewicz

$1912$: Jean Grosjean

$22$nd

$1765$: Johann Friedrich Pfaff

$1859$: Otto Ludwig Hölder

$1869$: Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov

$1877$: Tommaso Boggio

$1887$: Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan

$1897$: Vojtěch Jarník

$1900$: John Clarke Slater

$1918$: Edwin Evariste Moise

$1935$: Marvin Jay Greenberg

$1980$: Matthew Thomas Parker

$23$rd

$1913$: Henry Martyn Cundy

$1931$: Basil Gordon

$1932$: Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble

$1941$: Lucien Szpiro

$1943$: Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov

$24$th

$1818$: James Prescott Joule

$1822$: Charles Hermite

$1868$: Emanuel Lasker

$1916$: Charles Frederick Mosteller

$1940$: Donald Anthony Martin

$1945$: Ian Fraser Kilmister

$1946$: Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

$1948$: Neal Koblitz

$1960$: Carol Jean Vorderman

$1960$: Matt Westwood

$25$th

$1642$: Isaac Newton

$1862$: Wilhelm Weinberg

$1900$: Antoni Szczepan Zygmund

$1920$: Victor Abramovich Zalgaller

$1938$: Lorraine Lois Foster

$26$th

$1532$: Wilhelm Xylander‎

$1618$: Elisabeth of the Palatinate

$1791$: Charles Babbage

$1861$: Friedrich Engel

$1937$: John Horton Conway

$27$th

$1571$: Johannes Kepler

$1654$: Jacob Bernoulli

$1853$: Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov

$1854$: Alfred Mortimer Nesbitt

$1923$: Harvey Cohn

$28$th

$1903$: John von Neumann

$1940$: Peter Michael Neumann

$29$th

$1256$: Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi

$1856$: Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

$1861$: Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel

$1944$: Joseph Warren Dauben

$1947$: Richard E. Crandall

$30$th

$1897$: Stanisław Saks

$31$st

$1896$: Carl Ludwig Siegel

$1945$: Leonard Max Adleman

$1952$: Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones

Precise date unknown

$1704$: Thomas Godfrey

$1904$: Stephen Barr

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