1920-1998
Alberto Calderón
Argentina and the United States
Alberto Calderón was mathematician. He helped create modern singular-integral theory and major parts of harmonic analysis.
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1845-1918
George Cantor
Germany
George Cantor was mathematician. He founded set theory and showed that infinite sets can have different cardinalities.
Documented historical record1501-1576
Gerolamo Cardano
Italy
Gerolamo Cardano was physician, mathematician, and author. His Ars Magna published methods for cubic and quartic equations and confronted square roots of negative numbers.
Documented historical record1900-1998
Mary Cartwright
Britain
Mary Cartwright was mathematician. She worked on complex analysis and nonlinear differential equations with applications to radio engineering.
Documented historical record1789-1857
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
France
Augustin-Louis Cauchy was mathematician. He helped make calculus rigorous through definitions and theorems about limits, continuity, convergence, and complex functions.
Documented historical record1598-1647
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italy
Bonaventura Cavalieri was mathematician. His method of indivisibles compared areas and volumes by treating figures as collections of parallel slices.
Documented historical record1821-1895
Arthur Cayley
England
Arthur Cayley was mathematician and lawyer. He developed matrix algebra, invariant theory, group ideas, and higher-dimensional geometry.
Documented historical record1911-2004
Shiing-Shen Chern
China and the United States
Shiing-Shen Chern was geometer. He founded major areas of global differential geometry and developed characteristic classes.
Documented historical record429-500
Zu Chongzhi
China
Zu Chongzhi was mathematician, astronomer, and engineer. He produced an exceptionally accurate rational approximation to pi and worked on calendars and astronomical measurement.
Documented historical record1706-1749
Émilie du Châtelet
France
Émilie du Châtelet was mathematician, physicist, and translator. She translated and commented on Newton’s Principia and argued for energy proportional to the square of speed.
Documented historical record1917-1996
Joan Clarke
Britain
Joan Clarke was mathematician and cryptanalyst. She used mathematical reasoning in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park to help attack German naval Enigma traffic.
Documented historical record1888-1972
Richard Courant
Germany and the United States
Richard Courant was mathematician and institution builder. He advanced partial differential equations, numerical methods, and mathematical physics and helped build major research centers.
Documented historical record1895-1969
Elbert Frank Cox
United States
Elbert Frank Cox was mathematician and professor. He became the first African American known to earn a doctorate in mathematics.
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