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Pierre Humbert (13 June 1891, Paris – 17 November 1953, Paris) was a French mathematician who worked on the theory of elliptic functions and introduced Humbert polynomials. He was the son of the mathematician Georges Humbert and married the daughte
Annette Huber-Klawitter (née Huber, born 1967) is a German mathematician at the University of Freiburg. Her research interests includes algebraic geometry, in particular the Bloch–Kato conjectures.
Diana Frost Shelstad (born August 19, 1947) is a mathematician known for her work in automorphic forms. She is a professor at Rutgers–Newark. She earned her doctorate at Yale University in 1974 studying real reductive algebraic groups.
Günter Pilz (born 1945 in Bad Hall, Upper Austria) is Professor of Mathematics at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz. He is the head of the Institute of Algebra.
Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, née Timpson, DBE (1 October 1912 – 10 August 2014) was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher’s governmen
Curt Meyer (19 November 1919 – 18 April 2011) was a German mathematician. He made notable contributions to number theory.
Thierry Goudon (born January 1969 in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a French mathematician. He works in applied mathematics, with interest in the study of Partial Differential Equations motivated from physics. He has made contributions on kinetic theory
Jacob Levitzki, also known as Yaakov Levitsky (Hebrew: יעקב לויצקי) (17 August 1904 – 25 February 1956) was an Israeli mathematician.
Paul Appell (27 September 1855 in Strasbourg – 24 October 1930 in Paris), also known as Paul Émile Appel, was a French mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. The concept of Appell polynomials is named after him, as is rue Paul Appell
Derrick Henry “Dick” Lehmer (February 23, 1905 – May 22, 1991) was an American mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas’ work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer’s peripatetic career as a number theorist, wi
Narayana Pandita (Sanskrit: ) (1340–1400) was a major mathematician of India. Plofker writes that his texts were the most significant Sanskrit mathematics treatises after those of Bhaskara II, other than the Kerala school. He wrote the Ganita Kaumu
Fritz Joseph Ursell FRS (28 April 1923 – 11 May 2012) was a British mathematician noted for his contributions to fluid mechanics, especially in the area of wave-structure interactions. He held the Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at the Universit