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Angelo Genocchi (5 March 1817 – 7 March 1889) was an Italian mathematician who specialized in number theory. He worked with Giuseppe Peano. The Genocchi numbers are named after him.
Taro Morishima (森嶋 太郎, Morishima Tarō, 1903 – 1989) was a Japanese mathematician specializing in algebra who attended University of Tokyo in Japan. Morishima published at least thirteen papers, including his work on Fermat’s Last Theorem.
Derrick Crothers (born 24 June 1942) is a Northern Irish mathematician, physicist and former politician.
Michael (Mihály) Fekete (Hebrew: מיכאל פקטה; July 19, 1886 – May 13, 1957) was an Israeli-Hungarian mathematician.
Abraham Halevi (Adolf) Fraenkel (Hebrew: אברהם הלוי (אדולף) פרנקל; February 17, 1891, Munich, Germany – October 15, 1965, Jerusalem, Israel), known as Abraham Fraenkel, was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early
Christian Kramp (8 July 1760 – 13 May 1826) was a French mathematician, who worked primarily with factorials.
Guy Terjanian is a French mathematician who has worked on algebraic number theory. He achieved his Ph.D under Claude Chevalley in 1966, and at that time published a counterexample to the original form of a conjecture of Emil Artin, which suitably mod
Alexánder Víktorovich Abrósimov (Nov 16, 1948 – June 20, 2011) was a Russian mathematician and teacher.
Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uri
Marko Petkovšek is a Slovenian mathematician, born: 1955, working mainly in symbolic computation. He is a professor of discrete and computational mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. He completed his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University under
Peter David Lax (born 1 May 1926) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperboli