Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birthday/February

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The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.

-- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London

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$1$st

$1840$: William Allen Whitworth

$1900$: John Charles Burkill

$1902$: Jovan Karamata

$1932$: David Abram Antin

$2$nd

$1522$: Lodovico Ferrari

$1786$: Jacques Philippe Marie Binet

$1882$: Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn

$1894$: Hendrik Anthony Kramers

$1896$: Kazimierz Kuratowski

$1897$: Gertrude Blanch

$1903$: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

$1952$: Ralph Charles Merkle

$3$rd

$1893$: Gaston Maurice Julia

$1898$: Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn

$1917$: Georgi Evgen'evich Shilov

$1951$: Steven George Krantz

$4$th

$1921$: Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh

$1925$: Erik Christopher Zeeman

$5$th

$1936$: Peter John Freyd

$1938$: Ian Mueller

$6$th

$1465$: Scipione del Ferro

$1612$: Antoine Arnauld

$1695$: Nicolaus II Bernoulli

$1933$: Nils John Nilsson

$1940$: Petr Hájek

$1942$: Tsit Yuen Lam

$1947$: Michel Criton

$7$th

$1877$: Godfrey Harold Hardy

$1883$: Eric Temple Bell

$1898$: Charles Wilderman Trigg

$1906$: James Andrew Clarkson

$1922$: Cornelis Gerrit Lekkerkerker

$8$th

$411$: Proclus Lycaeus

$1688$: Emanuel Swedenborg

$1700$: Daniel Bernoulli

$1875$: Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich

$1948$: Ian Chiswell

$9$th

$1775$: Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai

$1857$: William Roger Paton

$1907$: Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter

$1919$: Irene Ann Stegun

$1927$: Masayoshi Nagata

$1933$: Uta Caecilia Merzbach

$1945$: George Daniel Parker

$10$th

$1785$: Claude-Louis Navier

$1901$: Richard Dagobert Brauer

$1935$: Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar

$1944$: Nigel J. Cutland

$1948$: Miodrag S. Petković

$11$th

$1839$: Josiah Willard Gibbs

$1897$: Emil Leon Post

$1899$: Wolfgang Gröbner

$1909$: Claude Chevalley

$1911$: Alexander Kirkland Cairncross

$1915$: Richard Wesley Hamming

$1938$: Heiko Harborth

$1945$: Donald John Roberts

$12$th

$1870$: Horatio Scott Carslaw

$1897$: Lincoln La Paz

$1902$: James Alston Hope Hunter

$1914$: Hanna Neumann

$13$th

$1766$:Thomas Robert Malthus

$1805$: Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

$1906$: Edward Maitland Wright

$1930$: Erwin Engeler

$14$th

$1468$: Johann Werner

$1839$: Hermann Hankel

$1877$: Edmund Georg Hermann Landau

$1925$: Helmut Heinrich Schaefer

$1954$: Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld

$15$th

$1564$: Galileo Galilei

$1861$: Alfred North Whitehead

$1882$: Paul Koebe

$1912$: Herbert Samuel Zuckerman

$1934$: Niklaus Emil Wirth

$1945$: Douglas Richard Hofstadter

$16$th

$1514$: Georg Joachim Rhaeticus

$1698$: Pierre Bouguer

$1822$: Francis Galton

$1826$: Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen

$1875$: Yoshio Mikami

$1911$: Arthur Beiser

$1936$: Yuri Ivanovitch Manin

$17$th

$1890$: Ronald Aylmer Fisher

$1891$: Abraham Halevi Fraenkel

$1898$: Gregor Wentzel

$1905$: Rózsa Péter

$1927$: John Lewis Selfridge

$18$th

$1201$: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

$1838$: Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach

$1844$: Jacob Lüroth

$1871$: George Udny Yule

$1950$: Jan Pelant

$19$th

$1473$: Nicolaus Copernicus

$1863$: Axel Thue

$1910$: Sumner Byron Myers

$1936$: Władysław Narkiewicz

$20$th

$1844$: Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann

$1860$: Mathias Lerch

$1931$: John Willard Milnor

$1944$: George Barry Purdy

$21$st

$1591$: Girard Desargues

$1945$: Samuel Standfield Wagstaff Jr.

$22$nd

$1796$: Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet

$1856$: Micaiah John Muller Hill

$1857$: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

$1878$: Walther Ritz

$1896$: Semen Samsonovich Kovner

$1903$: Frank Plumpton Ramsey

$1924$: Steven Alexander Gaal

$1958$: Robert Arnott Wilson

$23$rd

$1795$: Giuliano Frullani

$1861$: George Ballard Mathews

$1905$: Derrick Henry Lehmer

$1938$: Michael C. Gemignani

$24$th

$1851$: Hermann Paasche

$1878$: Felix Bernstein

$1887$: Arthur Rosenthal

$1918$: Geoffrey Thomas Kneebone

$1946$: Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis

$25$th

$1922$: Ernst Gabor Straus

$26$th

$1786$: Dominique François Jean Arago

$1926$: James Alexander Green

$1927$: Richard Scott Pierce

$27$th

$1763$: Johann Wilhelm von Camerer

$1881$: Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer

$1910$: Joseph Leo Doob

$28$th

$1552$: Jost Bürgi

$1735$: Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde

$1743$: René Just Haüy

$1859$: Florian Cajori

$1878$: Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou

$1889$: Hyman Levy

$1907$: Willi Ludwig August Rinow

$1919$: Harry Pollard

$29$th

$1928$: Seymour Aubrey Papert

$1936$: John Alden Thorpe

Precise date unknown

$1561$: Henry Briggs

$1698$: Colin Maclaurin

$1927$: Wilbur Eugene Deskins

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