1923-2017
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.
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1806-1871
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.
Documented historical record1550-1617
John Napier
Scotland
John Napier was mathematician and inventor. He introduced logarithms to simplify multiplication, division, powers, and roots.
Documented historical record1928-2015
John Nash
United States
John Nash was mathematician. He contributed to game theory, geometry, and partial differential equations.
Documented historical record1201-1274
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persia
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. He developed trigonometry as an independent subject and wrote influential works on spherical triangles.
Documented historical recordBiblical era; traditionally 5th century BCE
Nehemiah
Jerusalem and the Persian Empire
Nehemiah was governor and rebuilding organizer in the biblical account. He surveyed damaged walls, divided work among crews, tracked sections, and coordinated the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s defenses.
Direct text with mathematical inferencefl. 13th century
Jordanus de Nemore
Medieval Europe
Jordanus de Nemore was mathematician and mechanical writer. He wrote systematic works on arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and statics.
Historical record with limited biography1903-1957
John von Neumann
Hungary and the United States
John von Neumann was mathematician and computing pioneer. He contributed to quantum theory, game theory, operator theory, numerical computing, and computer architecture.
Documented historical record1642-1727Featured
Isaac Newton
England
An English mathematician and natural philosopher who developed powerful methods for studying motion, change, series, gravitation, and optics.
Documented historical recordc. 60-c. 120 CE
Nicomachus
Gerasa in the Roman East
Nicomachus was mathematician and philosopher. His Introduction to Arithmetic organized figurate numbers, ratios, and classifications of integers.
Documented historical record1820-1910Featured
Florence Nightingale
Britain
Florence Nightingale was nurse, administrator, and statistician. She used mortality data and polar-area diagrams to argue for sanitation reforms in military hospitals.
Documented historical recordBiblical era; date uncertainFeatured
Noah
Ancient Near East
Noah was builder and household leader in the Genesis account. The account gives a large construction project with explicit length, width, and height measurements.
Direct text with mathematical inference1882-1935Featured
Emmy Noether
Germany and the United States
Emmy Noether was mathematician. She reshaped abstract algebra and proved a theorem connecting continuous symmetries with conservation laws.
Documented historical record1502-1578
Pedro Nunes
Portugal
Pedro Nunes was mathematician and royal cosmographer. He studied navigation, spherical geometry, map projections, and the path of constant bearing called a rhumb line.
Documented historical record1921-2008Featured
Chike Obi
Nigeria
Chike Obi was mathematician and educator. He researched nonlinear differential equations and helped develop university mathematics in Nigeria.
Documented historical recordBiblical era; date uncertainFeatured
Oholiab
Sinai and the ancient Near East
Oholiab worked beside Bezalel on patterned textiles, furnishings, and sacred construction. Translating detailed instructions into finished work required measurement, symmetry, proportion, and material p...
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