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Some biographies of past contributors to number theory
Some of the major sources of obituaries of mathematicians are:
- The Mactutor History of Mathematics (MacTutor)
- Russian Mathematical Surveys (RMS)
- Acta Arithmetica (AA)
- Notices of the Americal Mathematical Society (NAMS)
- Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (BLMS)
- Journal of the London Mathematical Society (JLMS) (Pre BLMS)
- Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (PLMS) (Pre JLMS)
- The Mathematical Intelligencer
- Journal of Number Theory
- Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (David Wilkins' transcriptions from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, by W.W. Rouse Ball)
- Historia Mathematica
A glance at Paulo Ribenboim's Fermat's Last Theorem for amateurs, Franz Lemmermeyer's Reciprocity Laws and L.E. Dickson's History of the Theory of Numbers, reveals the existence of many past number theorists about whom little is known.
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- William Wells Adams (1937-2024)
- Rudolf Ahlswede
- Alexander Aigner
- Helen Popova Alderson
- Leo James Alex
- William (Red) Alford
- Nesmith Ankeny
- Roger Apéry (Wikipedia)
- Tom Apostol died on May 8, 2016
- Vernon Armitage (1932-2019) LMS obituaries, May 2020
- Peter Friedrich Arndt (Wikipedia)
- Cahit Arf (MacTutor)
- Emil Artin
- Robert Ash (1935-2015) (AMS)
- Richard Allen Askey (Wikipedia)
- Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin
- Frederick Valentine Atkinson (Angelo B. Mingarelli)
- Léon Aubry
- James Burton Ax (1937-2006) (Wikipedia)
- Raymond Ayoub (1923-2013) (Wikipedia)
- A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar
- Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (MacTutor)
- Alan Baker
- Mark Borisovich Barban (RMS)
- Eric Stephen Barnes
- Paul Bateman
- Mihály Bauer (MacTutor)
- Felix Behrend
- Eric Temple Bell (MacTutor)
- Joël Bellaïche died on 30th May 2022
- Gennadii Vladimirovich Belyi (1951-2001) Russ. Math. Surv. 57 981 (2002)
- Anne-Marie Bergé
- Joseph Louis François Bertrand (MacTutor)
- William Edward Hodgson Berwick
- Arne Karl August Beurling
- Bhaskara (MacTutor)
- Jacques de Billy (MacTutor)
- Hans Frederick Blichfeldt (MacTutor)
- Fritz Blumer (1904-1988)
- Jonathan Michael Borwein (Wikipedia), Obituary by Richard Brent
- Alfred Theodore Brauer (MacTutor)
- Joel Lee Brenner (1912-1997)
- Robert Breusch (1907-1995)
- John Brillhart (1930-2022) (NAMS)
- Béla Brindza (1958-2003)
- Jerzy Browkin (1934-2015) (Google translation)
- Viggo Brun
- Viggo Brun (obituary by C. Scriba, Historia Mathematica 7 (1980), 1-6)
- Viggo Brun (Christoph Scriba, Mitt. Math. Ges. Hamburg 11 (1985) 271-290)
- Viggo Brun (Sigmund Selberg: Norske Vid. Selsk. Forh. (Trondheim) (1979) 57-61 - in Norwegian)
- Aleksandr Adol'fovich Bukhshtab (RMS)
- Richard Thomas Bumby died on 17th December 2024, aged 87
- Peter Bundschuh (1938-2024)
- Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (MacTutor)
- David Albert Burgess (1935-2023) historic paper
- Colin Bushnell (1947-2021)
- David Cantor (Wikipedia)
- Leonard Carlitz
- Robert Daniel Carmichael (Wikipedia)
- John (Ian) William Scott Cassels
- Eugène Charles Catalan (MacTutor)
- Claude Chabauty
- John Henry Holloway Chalk
- David Gawen Champernowne (MacTutor)
- Komaravolu S. Chandrashekhar (1920-2017) (Wikipedia)
- Robin Chapman (1963-2020), funeral notice for Robin Chapman
- Albert Châtelet (MacTutor)
- François Châtelet (Wikipedia)
- Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov (MacTutor)
- Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (MacTutor)
- Thyagaraju Chelluri
- Chen Jingrun biography MacTutor
- Claude Chevalley (MacTutor)
- Paromita Chowla (1934-2016)
- Sarvadaman Chowla
- Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov
- Robert Francis Churchhouse
- Fallece Javier Cilleruelo (1961 - 2016)
- John Henry Coates
- Paul Cohen biography (Wikipedia)
- Harvey Cohn
- Robert Coleman
- John Horton Conway
- George Erskine Cooke (21/5/1942-19/12/1976)
- Albert Everett Cooper
- William Andrew Coppel (Mactutor)
- Harald Cramér (MacTutor)
- Richard Crandall (1947-2012)
- Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham
- Hédi Daboussi (1942-2019)
- Harold Davenport
- Clive Selwyn Davis (1916-2009)
- Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (MacTutor)
- Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (MacTutor)
- Hubert Delange (1913-2003)
- Boris Nikolaevich Delone
- Remy Yohan Denis (1942-2021) (NAMS)
- Max Deuring
- Max Deuring (from the Göttingen Collection - also see Martin Kneser, Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung 89 (1987) 135-143, Peter Roquette, ibid 91 (1989) 109-125)
- Max Deuring (AA)
- Leonard Eugene Dickson (MacTutor)
- Diophantus of Alexandria (MacTutor)
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
- Bohuslav Diviš (Also see J. Number Theory 9 1977, (v-vii))
- Mary Dolciani
- Alain Durand (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1415)
- Bernard Dwork
- Bas Edixhoven (1962-2022)
- Harold Edwards (1936-2020) (Wikipedia)
- Martin Eichler
- Martin Eichler (MacTutor)
- Leben und Werk von Martin Eichler, Elemente der Mathematik 49 (1994) 45-60 (by Jürg Kramer)
- Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein (MacTutor)
- Fern Solomon Ellison
- Otto Endler (1929-1988), Photo
- Veikko Ennola (1932-2013)
- Paul Epstein
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene (MacTutor)
- Paul Erdös
- Theodor Estermann
- Dennis Estes (June 18, 1941- Feb. 1, 1999) (LA Times)
- Euclid of Alexandria (MacTutor)
- Leonhard Euler
- Graham Everest
- Dmitrii Konstantinovich Faddeev
- Naum Il'ich Feldman
- Pierre de Fermat
- Nathan Fine (NAMS)
- Harley Flanders (Wikipedia)
- Ernests Fogels
- Jean-Marc Fontaine (1944-2019) (Wikipedia)
- Jérôme Franel (MacTutor)
- Giovanni Frattini (MacTutor)
- François Fricker (1939-2022)
- Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (MacTutor)
- Albrecht Fröhlich
- Wolfgang Fuchs (NAMS)
- Karl Rudolf Fueter
- Philipp Furtwängler (1869-1940)
- Steve Galovich
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer (MacTutor)
- Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond
- Angelo Genocchi (MacTutor)
- André Gérardin (Wikipedia)
- Marie-Sophie Germain
- Frank Emmett Gerth III
- James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (MacTutor)
- Herbert James Godwin (1922-2005)
- Christian Goldbach (MacTutor)
- Evgenii Solomonovich Golod (Wikipedia)
- Solomon Golomb (Stephen Wolfram), Sol Golomb - My Friend and Mentor (Alfred W. Hales)
- Irving John (Jack) Good (1916-2009) (Virginia Tech)
- Basil Gordon Also see Remembering Basil Gordon, 1931-2012 (AMS Notices - Krishnaswami Alladi)
- Dmitrii Sergeevich Gorshkov (1916-1977)
- David Mark Goss (1952-2017) (Wikipedia)
- William Sealey Gosset (MacTutor)
- Ronald Lewis Graham (1935-2020) (NAMS)
- Jorgen Pedersen Gram (MacTutor)
- Marvin Greenberg (1935-2017)
- George Greaves (BLMS 43, (2011) 203-205)
- Emil Grosswald
- Alexandre Grothendieck
- Fritz Grunewald (MacTutor)
- Andrew Paul Guinand (MacTutor)
- Hansraj Gupta (Wikipedia)
- Stan Gurak (USD News Center)Richard Guy (1916-2020)
- Jacques Salomon Hadamard (MacTutor)
- Heini Halberstam
- Marshall Hall Jr. (MacTutor)
- Richard Roxby Hall died on 25th October 2024, aged 84
- Franz Halter-Koch (1944-2023)
- Harris Hancock
- Godfrey Harold Hardy
- Colin Brian Haselgrove (MacTutor)
- Helmut Hasse
- David Ryan Hayes (MacTutor)
- Erich Hecke
- Kurt Heegner
- Hans Arnold Heilbronn (MacTutor)
- Yves Hellegouarch (Wikipedia)
- Kurt Hensel (MacTutor)
- Jacques Herbrand (MacTutor)
- Charles Hermite (MacTutor)
- Gustav Herglotz (MacTutor)
- Norman Herzberg (1937-2020)
- David Hilbert
- David Lee Hilliker (1935-2012)
- Edmund Hlawka (Robert Tichy)
- Guido Hoheisel (Wikipedia)
- Ludwig Holzer (1891-1968) (Rudolf Einhorn: Rostock. Math. Kolloq. No. 27, (1985) 23-30)
- Christopher Hooley
- Fredric Timothy Howard (1939-2022)
- John S. Hsia (1938-2020)
- Loo-keng Hua
- Richard Hudson (1945-2016) (ColaDaily.com)
- John Hunter
- Adolf Hurwitz
- Jun-ichi Igusa
- Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda (MacTutor)
- Albert Edward Ingham
- Kustaa Inkeri
- Aleksandar Ivić (1949-2020)
- Kenkichi Iwasawa
- Shokichi Iyanaga
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- Ernst Jacobsthal
- Ernst Jacobsthal (MacTutor)
- Ernst Jacobsthal (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Forhandlinger Bind 38 1965 Nr 16, 70-73)