1698-1746
Colin Maclaurin
Scotland
Colin Maclaurin was mathematician and educator. He systematized Newtonian calculus and studied curves, series, and the figure of Earth.
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Madhava of Sangamagrama
Kerala, India
Madhava of Sangamagrama was mathematician and astronomer. He developed infinite series for sine, cosine, arctangent, and pi within the Kerala school.
Documented historical record1893-1972
P. C. Mahalanobis
India
P. C. Mahalanobis was statistician and institution builder. He developed the Mahalanobis distance and advanced large-scale sample surveys.
Documented historical recordc. 800-c. 870
Mahavira
India
Mahavira was Jain mathematician. His Ganita Sara Sangraha organized arithmetic, fractions, geometry, series, and practical commercial problems.
Documented historical record1907-1967
Miriam Daniel Mann
United States
Miriam Daniel Mann was mathematician and human computer. She worked in the segregated West Area Computing unit at Langley and challenged discriminatory workplace signs.
Documented historical recordBiblical era; date uncertainFeatured
Matthew
Galilee and Judea
Matthew worked as a tax collector before becoming a disciple. Tax work required arithmetic, rates, receipts, debt records, currency handling, and careful comparison between amounts owed and paid.
Direct biblical text with mathematical inference1831-1879
James Clerk Maxwell
Scotland
James Clerk Maxwell was mathematical physicist. He unified electricity, magnetism, and light in a system of field equations and developed statistical ideas for gases.
Documented historical recordc. 70-c. 140 CE
Menelaus of Alexandria
Alexandria and Rome
Menelaus of Alexandria was mathematician and astronomer. His Sphaerica developed geometry on the sphere for astronomical calculation.
Documented historical record1781-1870
Charles Joseph Minard
France
Charles Joseph Minard was civil engineer and information designer. He created flow maps that combined geography, quantity, direction, and time.
Documented historical record1977-2017Featured
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iran and the United States
An Iranian mathematician whose research connected geometry, topology, dynamical systems, and the behavior of curved surfaces.
Documented historical record1667-1754
Abraham de Moivre
France and England
Abraham de Moivre was mathematician. He connected complex numbers with trigonometry and developed probability approximations.
Documented historical record1923-2017
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Canada and the United States
Cathleen Synge Morawetz was mathematician. She made major contributions to partial differential equations and the mathematics of transonic flow.
Documented historical record1806-1871
Augustus De Morgan
Britain
Augustus De Morgan was mathematician and logician. He developed formal logic and stated laws describing how negation interacts with AND and OR.
Documented historical recordBiblical era; date uncertainFeatured
Moses
Ancient Near East
Moses was lawgiver and community leader in the biblical account. The Pentateuch records censuses, offerings, calendars, land measures, and exact dimensions for the tabernacle.
Direct text with mathematical inference1929-1990
Melba Roy Mouton
United States
Melba Roy Mouton was mathematician and NASA manager. She led groups of human computers and programmers whose calculations supported satellite tracking and orbital work.
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