Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birthday/May

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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

$1793$: Jakob Philipp Kulik

$1891$: Louis Melville Milne-Thomson

$1908$: Morris Kline

$1922$: Ben Noble

$1926$: Peter David Lax

$1930$: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

$1941$: Pierre Antoine Grillet

$1947$: Svetlana Katok

$2$nd

$1588$: Étienne Pascal

$1860$: Jan Cornelis Kluyver

$1861$: Conrad Heinrich Edmund Friedrich Busche

$1901$: Edouard Zeckendorf

$1921$: Walter Rudin

$1926$: Donald Watson Blackett

$3$rd

$1857$: Alexander Yule Fraser

$1860$: Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra

$1892$: George Paget Thomson

$1902$: Marcel Jules Edouard Golay

$1924$: Isadore Manuel Singer

$1925$: Patrick Paul Billingsley

$1929$: Eugene James Putzer

$1939$: Hans Jürgen Weber

$1977$: Maryam Mirzakhani

$4$th

$1733$: Jean-Charles de Borda

$1845$: William Kingdon Clifford

$1876$: Heinrich Wilhelm Ewald Jung

$1944$: Andy Roy Magid

$5$th

$1580$: Johann Faulhaber

$1833$: Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs

$1842$: Heinrich Martin Weber

$1937$: Delia Ann Derbyshire

$6$th

$1792$: Martin Ohm

$1895$: Júlio César de Mello e Souza

$1906$: André Abraham Weil

$1941$: Nelson Malcolm Stephens

$1947$: Ronald Linn Rivest

$7$th

$1713$: Alexis Claude Clairaut

$1832$: Carl Gottfried Neumann

$1896$: Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov

$1911$: Theodor Schneider

$1965$: Olivier Ramaré

$8$th

$1859$: Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen

$1871$: Vladimir Andreyevich Markov

$1902$: Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett

$9$th

$1746$: Gaspard Monge

$1808$: John Scott Russell

$1862$: Gino Benedetto Loria

$1876$: Gilbert Ames Bliss

$1877$: James Colquhoun Irvine

$1898$: Arend Heyting

$10$th

$1788$: Augustin-Jean Fresnel

$1821$: Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi

$1847$: Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing

$1904$: Edward James McShane

$1953$: Peter Benjamin Borwein

$11$th

$1907$: Holbrook Mann MacNeille

$1918$: Richard Phillips Feynman

$1923$: Eugenio Calabi

$1924$: Eugene Borisovich Dynkin

$1924$: Michael Barker Glauert

$12$th

$1820$: Florence Nightingale

$1845$: Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard

$1857$: Oskar Bolza

$1902$: Frank Yates

$1946$: Charalambos Dionisios Aliprantis

$13$th

$1750$: Lorenzo Mascheroni

$1753$: Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot

$1799$: Karl Ludwig Gerwien

$1918$: Francis John Anscombe

$1931$: András Hajnal

$14$th

$1826$: Jean François Théophile Pépin

$1832$: Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz

$1863$: John Charles Fields

$1875$: Beppo Levi

$1917$: William Thomas Tutte

$15$th

$1544$: William Gilbert

$1591$: Jean Leurechon

$1615$: Frans van Schooten

$1835$: Émile Léonard Mathieu

$1904$: Clifton Paul Fadiman

$1939$: Brian Hartley

$1941$: David Orme Tall

$16$th

$1718$: Maria Gaëtana Agnesi

$1814$: Daniel da Silva

$1821$: Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev

$1911$: John Todd

$1925$: Robert Duncan Luce

$1937$: Robert Butler Wilson

$17$th

$1938$: J. Arthur Seebach

$18$th

$1048$: Omar Khayyam

$1850$: Oliver Heaviside

$1850$: Ludwig Stickelberger

$1854$: Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt

$1872$: Bertrand Arthur William Russell

$1891$: Rudolf Carnap

$1946$: Celia Mary Hoyles

$1953$: David Elieser Deutsch

$19$th

$1868$: John Fillmore Hayford

$1876$: James Gordon Gray

$1927$: Serge Lang

$1928$: Sergey Nikitovich Mergelyan

$1942$: Eberhard Freitag

$1962$: Richard Lawrence Taylor

$20$th

$1874$: Friedrich Moritz Hartogs

$1944$: Per H. Enflo

$1951$: Jonathan Michael Borwein

$1958$: Mark Steven Manasse

$1974$: Ben Michael Goldacre

$21$st

$1471$: Albrecht Dürer

$1792$: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

$1858$: Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat

$1861$: Henry Laurence Gantt

$1873$: John Hilton Grace

$1902$: Camillo Herbert Grötzsch

$1916$: Selmer Martin Johnson

$1923$: Armand Borel

$1925$: Paul Van Campen Hough

$1942$: Robert James McEliece

$22$nd

$1865$:Alfred Cardew Dixon

$1893$: Bronisław Knaster

$1933$: Chen Jingrun

$23$rd

$1887$: Thoralf Albert Skolem

$1907$: Boris Anastasyevich Kordemsky

$1917$: Edward Norton Lorenz

$1936$: John Mackintosh Howie

$1955$: Preda V. Mihăilescu

$24$th

$1686$: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

$1794$: William Whewell

$1924$: David Borwein

$1925$: George Leitmann

$1931$: Elliott Mendelson

$25$th

$1618$: Urbano d'Aviso

$1634$: Clément-Samuel Fermat

$1865$: Pieter Zeeman

$1919$: Raymond Merrill Smullyan

$1934$: Philip Gerald Drazin

$1940$: Michael David Spivak

$26$th

$1667$: Abraham de Moivre

$1899$: Otto Eduard Neugebauer

$1951$: Ronald Francis Gariepy

$27$th

$1808$: Carl Anton Bretschneider

$1840$: Charles Taylor

$1907$: Karl Johannes Herbert Seifert

$1936$: Nobuyuki Yoshigahara

$1941$: Wilfrid Augustine Hodges

$28$th

$1676$: Jacopo Francesco Riccati

$1707$: Johann II Bernoulli

$1850$: Wooster Woodruff Beman

$1908$: Egbert Rudolf van Kampen

$1912$: Hans Julius Zassenhaus

$1929$: Hans Ivar Riesel

$1941$: Joel William Robbin

$29$th

$1834$: William Jack

$1887$: Louis Leon Thurstone

$1911$: George Szekeres

$30$th

$1423$: Georg von Peuerbach

$1800$: Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach

$1814$: Eugène Charles Catalan

$1846$: Eugen Otto Erwin Netto

$1931$: Hale Freeman Trotter

$1932$: Solomon Wolf Golomb

$1967$: Jens Vygen

$31$st

$1913$: Alexander McFarlane Mood

$1928$: Norman C. Severo

Precise date unknown

$1637$: Jacob Marcelis

$1692$: James Stirling

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