Biographies of past number theorists and various items of historical interest

• Cornell Digital Library Math Collection: Old Mathematics books listed by Title - including Hensel, Sommer
• The University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection
• Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Zur Geschichte der Zahlentheorie in den dreißiger Jahren, Hasse's work on the Riemann hypothesis for curves over finite fields - An historical perspective by Professor Peter Roquette (plus notes on class-field theory, Artin L-functions, Erich Hecke)
• Two Hundred Years of Number Theory after Carl-Friedrich Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, A list of lectures at an Oberwolfach conference, June 17-23, 2001
• Turing and the Riemann Hypothesis, Andrew Booker, Notices of the AMS., 53 (2006) No. 10, 1208-1211
• Mathematical research during the first decades of the Universtiy of Stockholm (Yngve Domar - pdf 130K)
• Collected Works
  • Collected papers of Peter Roquette, editors: Anthony V. Geramita and Paulo Ribenboim, Queens University 118, 2002
  • Ouvres J.-P. Serre, I-III, Springer 2003
  • A 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics, AMS Notices, March 2005
  • On the AMS Notices Publication of Krieger's Translation of Weil's 1940 Letter, by Serge Lang, AMS Notices, July 2005
  • Review of John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician, by Noel Malcolm and Jacqueline Stedall (reviewer Rob Bradley)
• Biographies
  • The Atlas Laboratory
  • Article on Pierre Deligne
  • Ken Ono's Ramanuajan visit
  • The Man Who Knew Infinity (A life of the genius Ramanujan), R. Kanigel, Washington Square Press 1992
  • The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician, A. Weil, Birkhaüser 1992
  • The mountains of Pi, an article about Gregory and David Chudnovsky, by Richard Preston
  • Comme Appelá du Néant--As if Summoned from the void: The Life of Alexandre Grothendieck, part (a), AMS Notices 51 October 2004
  • Comme Appelá du Néant--As If Summoned from the Void: The Life of Alexandre Grothendieck, part (b), AMS Notices 51 November 2004
• Prizes
  • Fermat prize 2009 awarded jointly to Elon Lindenstrauss and Cedric Villani
  • Kathrin Bringmann to receive 2009 Sastra Ramanujan Prize
  • Kathrin Bringmann has been awarded the Krupp Prize
  • 2008 Steele prize awarded to Endre Szemerédi
  • 2008 Cole prize in number theory awarded to Manjul Bhargava
  • Ben Green to receive the 2007 Sastra Ramanujan prize
  • The 2007 Shaw prize, mathematics section, is awarded to Robert Langlands and Richard Taylor
  • Indian mathematician Ramdorai Sujatha receives the 2006 Ramanujan prize
  • Vinayak Vatsal receives Ribenboim prize
  • Robert Langlands receives Nemmers prize
  • Hlawka-Prize 2006 awarded to Manfred Kühleitner
  • Sastra Prize 2005
  • Selfridge Prize in Computational Number Theory
  • John Tate awarded a Wolf Prize for 2003
  • SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  • Serre receives Abel prize, Notices of the AMS, Volume 50, Number 6, 2003
  • Serre awarded Abel Prize
    • Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre, NAMS February 2004
  • Henryk Iwaniec, Peter Sarnak and Richard Taylor receive the 7th Ostrowski Prize
  • Kevin Buzzard wins 2002 LMS Whitehead Prize
  • Susan Howson wins 2002 Cambridge University Adams Prize
  • Henryk Iwaniec receives 2002 AMS Cole Prize
  • Don Zagier receives Von Staudt Prize, Notices of the AMS, September 2001
  • Ernie Croot solves an old problem of Erdös and Graham
  • Wolf Prize Recipients in Mathematics
  • 1995 Steele Prizes (includes Serre and Tate)
  • 1996 Steele Prizes (includes Berndt and Shimura)
  • Andrew Wiles Receives NAS Award in Mathematics
  • 1997 Cole Prize (Andrew Wiles)
  • 2002 Cole Prize in Number Theory
• Photos
  • Colloque Mendès France, Université de Bordeaux, September 2000
  • Pictures, courtesy of Jeff Mozzochi, from Multiple Dirichlet Conference July 2005
  • Diophantine Analysis, Uniform Distributions and Applications, Minsk, Belarus, August 2003
  • Antwerp Modular Forms 1972 Conference Photo (scanned by William Stein)
  • John Tate and his students in 1985
  • Pictures from the Conference in Honor of Mostow and Piatetski-Shapiro (April 1999) (Stephen Miller)
  • Notes and photos from Oberwolfach: Explicit Methods in Number Theory Meeting, July 22-28, 2001 (William A. Stein)
  • Don Zagier is awarded the von-Staudt-Preis
  • William Stein's photos of various number theorists
  • Computers in Number Theory Conference, Oxford 1969
  • Barry Mazur Conference photo
• Mathematical family trees
  • Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • Harold Stark's mathematical descendants (compiled by Anne Schwartz)

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Some biographies of past contributors to number theory

1. The Mactutor History of Mathematics (MacTutor)
2. Russian Mathematical Surveys (RMS)
3. Acta Arithmetica (AA)
4. Notices of the Americal Mathematical Society (NAMS)
5. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (BLMS)
6. Journal of the London Mathematical Society (JLMS) (Pre BLMS)
7. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (PLMS) (Pre JLMS)
8. The Mathematical Intelligencer
9. Journal of Number Theory
10. Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (David Wilkins' transcriptions from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, by W.W. Rouse Ball)
11. Historia Mathematica

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1. Alexander Aigner
2. William (Red) Alford
3. Nesmith Ankeny
4. Roger Apéry
5. Peter Friedrich Arndt (Wikipedia)
6. Emil Artin
   • Emil Artin (MacTutor)
   • Emil Artin, his life and his work, (by Hans Zassenhaus, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic V, No. 1, January 1964)
7. Oliver Atkin
   • Oliver Atkin died on 28th December 2008, Oliver Atkin (Chicago Tribune)
   • Oliver Atkin and the Atlas Lab (Bryan Birch)
   • Obituary of Oliver Atkin, Jeremy Teitelbaum, Notices of the AMS, 56, April 2009
8. Frederick Valentine Atkinson (Angelo B. Mingarelli)
9. L. Aubry
10. James Burton Ax (1937-2006)
11. A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar
    • Review of CD of the work of A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (R. Sridharan)
12. Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (MacTutor)
13. Mark Borisovich Barban (RMS)
14. Eric Stephen Barnes
    • Eric Stephen Barnes (The Adelaidean, 20th Nov 2000, page 6)
    • Eric Stephen Barnes (G.E. Wall, Jane Pitman, R.B. Potts)
15. Felix Behrend
    • Felix Adalbert Behrend (Biography by Bernhard Neumann)
    • Felix Adalbert Behrend (Australian Dictionary of Biography Online)
16. Eric Temple Bell (MacTutor)
17. Anne-Marie Bergé died on September 20th, 2008
18. Joseph Louis François Bertrand (MacTutor)
19. William Edward Hodgson Berwick (JLMS)
20. Arne Karl August Beurling
    • Arne Karl August Beurling (MacTutor)
    • Arne Beurling, Codebreaker
21. Bhaskara (MacTutor)
22. Jacques de Billy (MacTutor)
23. Hans Frederick Blichfeldt (MacTutor. Also see Stanford University memorial page)
24. Fritz Blumer (1904-1988)
25. Stjepan Bohnicek (1872-1956)
26. Alfred Theodore Brauer (MacTutor)
27. Robert Breusch (1907-1995)
28. Béla Brindza (1957-2003)
29. Viggo Brun
    • Viggo Brun (from an obituary by C. Scriba, Historia Mathematica 7 (1980), 1-6)
    • Viggo Brun (Christoph Scriba, Mitt. Math. Ges. Hamburg 11 (1985) 271-290)
    • Viggo Brun (In Norwegian)
    • Viggo Brun (Sigmund Selberg: Norske Vid. Selsk. Forh. (Trondheim) (1979) 57-61 - in Norwegian)
30. Aleksandr Adol'fovich Bukhshtab (RMS)
31. Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (MacTutor)
32. Leonard Carlitz
    • Leonard Carlitz (MacTutor)
    • Leonard Carlitz (1907-1999) (NAMS)
33. Robert Daniel Carmichael (Wikipedia)
34. Eugène Charles Catalan (MacTutor)
35. Claude Chabauty
36. John H.H. Chalk
37. David Gawen Champernowne (ICGA Journal 23 December 2000)
38. Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov (MacTutor)
    • Chebotarëv and his density theorem (Peter Stevenhagen, Hendrik Lenstra Jr.)
39. Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (MacTutor)
40. Thyagaraju Chelluri
41. Chen Jingrun (Acta Mathematica Sinica, New Series (1996) 12, No. 3, 225-233)
42. Claude Chevalley (MacTutor)
43. Sarvadaman Chowla
    • Sarvadaman Chowla (MacTutor)
    • Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995) (NAMS)
44. Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov
    • Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov (RMS)
    • Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov 70th birthday (RMS)
    • Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov (MacTutor)
45. Paul Cohen (LMS newsletter), Paul Cohen biography (Wikipedia), Paul J. Cohen memorial web page
46. George E. Cooke
47. Albert Everett Cooper
    • Albert Everett Cooper (Texas Archival Resources Online)
    • Albert Everett Cooper (JSTOR)
48. Harald Cramér (MacTutor)
49. Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (JLMS)
50. Harold Davenport
    • Harold Davenport (MacTutor)
    • Harold Davenport (AA)
    • Harold Davenport (BLMS, March 1972, vol 4, 66 - 99.)
51. Clive Selwyn Davis (1916-2009)
52. Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (MacTutor)
53. Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (MacTutor)
54. Hubert Delange (1913-2003)
    • Hubert Delange (in French)
    • Hubert Delange (in English)
55. Boris Nikolaevich Delone
    • Boris Nikolaevich Delone (MacTutor)
    • Boris Nikolaevich Delone (80th birthday RMS)
56. 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)
57. Leonard Eugene Dickson (MacTutor)
58. Diophantus of Alexandria (MacTutor)
59. Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
    • Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (MacTutor)
    • Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (from the Göttingen biography)
60. Bohuslav Diviš (Ohio collection) (Also see J. Number Theory 9 1977, v-vii)
61. Mary Dolciani
    • Mary Dolciani (Mathematics genealogy entry)
    • Mary Dolciani biography (NCTM)
62. Alain Durand (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1415)
63. Bernard Dwork
    • Bernard Dwork, (NAMS)
    • Bernard Dwork, (Princeton University News)
64. Martin Eichler
    • Martin Eichler (AA)
    • Leben und Werk von Martin Eichler, Elemente der Mathematik 49 (1994) 45-60 (by Jürg Kramer)
65. Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein (MacTutor)
66. Otto Endler (1929-1988)
67. Eratosthenes of Cyrene (MacTutor)
68. Paul Erdös
    • Paul Erdös (MacTutor)
    • Paul Erdös (1913-1996)
    • Some recollections about Paul Erdös
    • Remembering Paul Erdös, (Recollections by A. Ivic (PostScript, 9 pages)) pdf version (use zoom)
    • Paul Erdös (AA)
69. Theodor Estermann (BLMS)
70. Dennis Estes (June 18, 1941- Feb. 1, 1999)
71. Euclid of Alexandria (MacTutor)
72. Leonhard Euler
    • Leonhard Euler (MacTutor)
    • Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) (Rouse Ball)
73. Dmitrii Konstantinovich Faddeev
    • Dmitrii Konstantinovich Faddeev (St. Petersburg Mathematical Society)
    • Dmitrii Konstantinovich Faddeev (60th birthday RMS)
74. Naum Il'ich Feldman
    • Naum Il'ich Feldman (RMS)
    • Naum Il'ich Feldman (Mathematical Transactions 2 (1996) 3-6, Collection of papers dedicated to memory of Prof. N.I. Feldman )
75. Pierre de Fermat
    • Pierre de Fermat (MacTutor)
    • Pierre de Fermat (1601 - 1665) (Rouse Ball)
76. Nathan Fine (NAMS)
77. Ernests Fogels
    • Ernests Fogels (AA)
    • Ernests Fogels (MacTutor)
78. Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (MacTutor)
79. Albrecht Fröhlich (Peter Roquette), MacTutor
80. Wolfgang Fuchs (NAMS)
81. Karl Rudolf Fueter
    • Karl Rudolf Fueter (MacTutor)
82. Philipp Furtwängler (1869-1940) (Obituary: JDMV 50 1940, 167-178)
83. Steve Galovich
84. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
    • Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (MacTutor)
    • Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Göttingen biography )
85. Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer (MacTutor)
86. M.A. Gel'bke
87. Angelo Genocchi (MacTutor)
88. Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond
    • Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond (MacTutor)
    • Aleksander Osipovich Gelfond (AA)
    • Aleksander Osipovich Gelfond (RMS)
89. Angelo Genocchi (MacTutor)
90. Marie-Sophie Germain (MacTutor)
91. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (MacTutor)
92. Frank Emmett Gerth III
93. Herbert James Godwin (1922-2005)
    • Herbert James Godwin (LMS Newsletter)
    • Publications of Herbert James Godwin
94. Christian Goldbach (MacTutor)
95. Franz Goldscheider (1852-1926)
96. Irving John (Jack) Good died on April 6th, 2009 (Virginia Tech)
97. William Sealey Gosset (MacTutor)
98. Jorgen Pedersen Gram (MacTutor)
99. George Greaves (LMS Newsletter)
100. Emil Grosswald
     • Emil Grosswald (NAMS)
     • A Guide to the Emil Grosswald Papers, 1942-1988
     • Andrew Paul Guinand (MacTutor)
101. Jacques Salomon Hadamard (MacTutor)
102. Marshall Hall Jr. Marshall Hall Jr(MacTutor)
103. Harris Hancock
     • Harris Hancock (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 1944, 812-815)
     • Obituary of Harris Hancock, 1867-1944
104. Godfrey Harold Hardy
     • Godfrey Harold Hardy (MacTutor)
     • Godfrey Harold Hardy (JLMS 25 (1950) 82-101)
105. Colin Brian Haselgrove (MacTutor)
106. Helmut Hasse
     • Helmut Hasse (MacTutor)
     • In memoriam Helmut Hasse (Peter Roquette)
     • Helmut Hasse (1898-1979) (summary of Günther Frei's article, by Efraim Halfon)
     • Helmut Hasse (J. Number Theory 14 1982, 118-120)
107. Erich Hecke
     • Erich Hecke (MacTutor)
     • Erich Hecke (Göttingen biography)
108. Kurt Heegner
109. Hans Arnold Heilbronn (MacTutor)
110. Kurt Hensel (MacTutor)
111. Jacques Herbrand (MacTutor)
112. Charles Hermite (MacTutor)
113. David Hilbert
     • David Hilbert (MacTutor)
     • David Hilbert (Göttingen biography)
114. Edmund Hlawka, born on Nov 5th 1916 in Bruck an der Mur (Styria), died on Feb 19th 2009 in Vienna
115. Ludwig Holzer (1891-1968) (Rudolf Einhorn: Rostock. Math. Kolloq. No. 27, (1985) 23-30)
116. Loo-keng Hua
     • Loo-keng Hua (AA)
     • Loo-keng Hua (MacTutor)
117. Adolf Hurwitz
     • Adolf Hurwitz (MacTutor)
     • Adolf Hurwitz (PLMS 20 (1922) xlviii-liv)
118. Albert Edward Ingham
     • Albert Edward Ingham (MacTutor)
     • Albert Edward Ingham (BLMS 1 1969, 109-124)
119. Kustaa Inkeri
120. Kenkichi Iwasawa
     • Kenkichi Iwasawa (NAMS)
     • Kenkichi Iwasawa passed away on October 26th 1998
     • Memories of Professor Iwasawa, (Ralph Greenberg)
121. Shokichi Iyanaga (Also see Mactutor biography)
122. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
     • Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (MacTutor)
     • Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (Eric Conrad's page)
123. Ernst Jacobsthal
     • Ernst Jacobsthal (1882-1965)
     • Ernst Jacobsthal (MacTutor)
124. Vojtěch Jarník
     • Vojtěch Jarník (MacTutor)
     • Life and work of Vojtěch Jarník, Břetislav Novák, Published by the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, Zitna 25, Praha 1, Czech Republik
     • Vojtěch Jarník (AA)
     • In Memoriam Prof. Vojtěch Jarník (Ivan Netuka)
125. Michael Kalecki
126. Pierre Kaplan
     • Photo (1969)
127. Irving Kaplansky
     • Irving Kaplansky (1917-2006)
     • Irving Kaplansky (MacTutor)
128. Erich Kamke
129. Shri Dattathreya Ramachandra Kaprekar
130. Anatolii Alexeevich Karatsuba (1937-2008)
131. Aubrey J. Kempner
     • Aubrey J. Kempner (L. Koleski)
132. Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (MacTutor)
133. Hendrik Douwe Kloosterman
     • Hendrik Douwe Kloosterman (MacTutor)
     • Hendrik Douwe Kloosterman (NAMS)
134. Stanislaw Knapowski (Paul Turán, Coll. Math. 23 (1971) 309-318)
135. John Knopfmacher
136. Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (MacTutor)
137. Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma (MacTutor)
138. Ivan Korec
139. Alexander Nikolaevich Korkine (in Russian) (english translation by Bob Burns)
140. Miloš Kössler
141. Leopold Kronecker (MacTutor)
142. Ernst Eduard Kummer (MacTutor)
     • About the cover: Kummer's tables (Harold Edwards: BAMS 44 (2007), 133-135)
143. Sigekatu Kuroda (J. Number Theory 7 1975, 1-4)
144. R.O. Kuz'min
145. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
     • Joseph-Louis Lagrange (MacTutor)
     • Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813) (Rouse Ball)
146. Gabriel Lamé (MacTutor)
147. Edmund Georg Hermann Landau
     • Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (MacTutor)
     • Edmund Landau (JLMS 13 (1938) 302-310)
     • Edmund Landau and the Hebrew University
     • Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (Göttingen biography)
148. Serge Lang
     • Serge Lang (Wikipedia)
     • Serge Lang died on 12th September 2005
     • Serge Lang (1927-2005), AMS Notices May 2006, Volume 53, Number 5
     • The Mathematical Contributions of Serge Lang, Jay Jorgenson and Steven G. Krantz, 54, Notices AMS April 2007
     • Mordell's review, Siegel's letter to Mordell, Diophantine geometry and 20th century mathematics, Serge Lang, Gazette des Mathématiciens - n°63, January 1995, SMF
149. Bob Laxton (1933-2002)
150. Victor Amédée Lebesgue (1791-1875)
151. Adrien-Marie Legendre
     • Adrien-Marie Legendre (MacTutor)
     • Adrien Marie Legendre (1752 - 1833) (Rouse Ball)
152. Derrick Henry Lehmer (AA)
     • The Lehmers at Berkeley (Bancroft Library)
153. Emma Lehmer
154. Cornelis Gerrit Lekkerkerker
155. Mathias Lerch (MacTutor)
156. William Judson LeVeque (NAMS)
157. Norman Levinson (MacTutor)
158. Richard P. Lewis (LMS newsletter)
159. Frederick Lindemann - Lord Cherwell (1886-1957) (Wikipedia)
160. Edward Hubert Linfoot (J.H. Bell: BLMS 16 (1984) 52-58); J. Linfoot: Math. Intelligencer 15 (1993) 39-43
161. Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik
     • Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (MacTutor)
     • Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (RMS)
     • Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (AA)
162. Joseph Liouville (MacTutor)
163. John Edensor Littlewood
     • John Edensor Littlewood (MacTutor)
     • John Edensor Littlewood (BLMS 11 (1979) 59-103)
164. Wilhelm Ljunggren (MacTutor)
165. Robert Landis Long
166. Salomon Lubelski (AA)
167. François Edouard Anatole Lucas (MacTutor)
168. Kurt Mahler
     • Kurt Mahler (John Coates, Alf van der Poorten)
     • Kurt Mahler (AA)
169. Wilhelm Maier (1896-1990)
170. Edmond Maillet
171. Henry Mann (Ohio collection)
172. Alla Lavrik-Männlin (March 2nd, 1964-February 14th, 2003)
     • Publications of Alla Lavrik-Männlin
173. Andrei Andreyevich Markov (MacTutor)
174. George Ballard Mathews
     • George Ballard Mathews (MacTutor)
     • George Ballard Mathews (PLMS)
175. Emile Léonard Mathieu (MacTutor)
176. Daniel Friedrich Ernst Meissel (MacTutor)
177. Puliyakot Kesava Menon (1917-1979) (Bull. Math. Assoc. India 18 (1986), no. 1-4, 21-24)
178. Franz Mertens (MacTutor)
179. William H. Mills (November 9, 1921- March 7, 2007) (See A prime-representing function, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 53, Number 12 (1947), 1196-1196
180. Hermann Minkowski
     • Hermann Minkowski (MacTutor)
     • Hermann Minkowski (Göttingen biography)
181. Dimitry Mirimanoff
182. Leon Mirsky (BLMS 18 (1986) 195-206)
183. August Ferdinand Möbius (MacTutor)
184. Louis Joel Mordell
     • Louis Joel Mordell (MacTutor)
     • Louis Joel Mordell (AA)
185. Taro Morishima (Wikipedia)
186. Leo Moser
     • Leo Moser (Canadian Math. Bulletin 15, 1-8, 1972)
     • Leo Moser (Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics1, 255-256, 1971)
187. Theodore Samuel Motzkin (J. Comb. Theory (A))
188. Thomas Muir(MacTutor)
189. Trygve Nagell (AA)
190. Christopher Eastick Nelson (?-1973)
191. Jürgen Neukirch, (1937-1997) in memoriam by Theodor Bröcker
192. Donald J. Newman (Temple University), Donald J. Newman (Wikipedia)
193. Morris Newman
194. Ivan Niven (obituary by Kenneth Ross)
195. Břetislav Novák
196. Robert Winston Keith Odoni (Sept 2003 issue, Glasgow Math. Journal)
197. Carl Douglas Olds Vyacheslav Alekseevich Oleinikov (RMS)
198. Alexander Oppenheim
     • Alexander Oppenheim (Obituary: Balliol College)
     • Alexander Oppenheim
199. Hans-Heinrich Ostmann (1913-1959) (Obituary JDMV 86, 1984, 31-35)
200. Oystein Ore
201. Alexander Markowich Ostrowski
     • Alexander Markowich Ostrowski (MacTutor)
     • Alexander Markowich Ostrowski (AA)
202. Gordon Pall (no biography)
203. Pan Chengdong
204. William Parry
205. Wilhelm Patz (no biography)
206. William Barry Pennington (BLMS)
207. Oscar Perron
     • Oskar Perron (MacTutor)
     • Oscar Perron (Universität Heidelberg)
208. Hans Petersson (MacTutor)
209. Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Yale obituary)
210. Théophile Pépin (1826-1904)
211. Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai
     • Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (1901-1950) (R. Thangadurai)
     • The work of S.S. Pillai (Michel Waldschmidt)
212. Nils Pipping (1890-1982)
213. Charles Pisot (AA)
214. Peter Arthur Barry Pleasants (24th August 1939- 20th April 2008)
215. Felix Pollaczek
     • Felix Pollaczek (Wikipedia)
     • Felix Pollaczek (JSTOR)
216. George Pólya (MacTutor)
217. J. Popken (1905-1970) (H. Jager, C.G.Lekkerkerker: Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 19 (1971) 1-9)
218. Aleksei Georgievich Postnikov (RMS)
219. Karl Prachar (1924-1994) (E. Hlawka: Monatshefte für Math. 121 (1996) 1-9)
220. Hans Rademacher
     • Hans Rademacher (MacTutor)
     • Hans Rademacher (AA)
221. Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan
     • Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan (AA)
     • Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan (MacTutor)
222. Chidambaram Padmanabhan Ramanujam (MacTutor)
223. Srinivasa Ramanujan
     • Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (MacTutor)
     • Srinivasa Ramanujan (PLMS)
224. Robert Alexander Rankin (MacTutor)
225. Ramanujan website (Prof. K. Srinivasa Rao)
226. László Rédei
     • Lázló Rédei (Acta Sci. Math.Szeged 43 (1981) 1-2
     • László Rédei (MacTutor)
227. Robert Remak (MacTutor)
228. Alfréd Rényi
     • Alfréd Rényi (MacTutor)
     • Alfréd Rényi (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics)
229. Giovanni Ricci (AA)
230. Hans-Egon Richert
231. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
     • Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (MacTutor)
     • Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (Göttingen biography)
     • Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) (Rouse Ball)
232. Raphael Robinson
233. Kirill Andreevich Rodosskii (1913-2004)
     • Kirill Andreevich Rodosskii died on 30th August 2004 (see Russian Mathematical Surveys, 61:5, 971-973 (2006) or Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 61:5, 173-175 (2006)
     • Kirill Andreevich Rodosskii (60th birthday RMS)
234. Claude Ambrose Rogers
     • Claude Ambrose Rogers (LMS Newsletter)
     • Claude Ambrose Rogers (MacTutor)
235. N.P. Romanov
236. Arnold Ross (NAMS)
237. John Barkley Rosser (Wikipedia)
     • Guide to the J. Barkley Rosser Papers, 1931-1989 (Texas Archival Resources Online)
238. Louis Saalschütz (1835-1913)
239. Raphaël Salem
240. Giovanii Sansone
     • The Giovanni Sansone Foundation
     • Giovanni Sansone (honorary doctorate Prague 1969)
241. Mathieu Schaar (1817-1867)
242. Peter Scherk (1910-1985)
243. Theodor Schneider (J. Number Theory 39 (1991) 129-143, Errata: 41 (1992) 129)
244. Arnold Scholz
245. Lowell Schoenfeld (John Ewing's tribute)
246. Theodor Schönemann (1812-1868)
247. Issai Schur (MacTutor)
248. Jack Schwartz died on March 2, 2009 (author of Algebraic Number Theory, 1961, NYU Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Also see Jack Schwartz Memorial Blog and Wikipedia article
249. Stefan Schwarz (MacTutor)
250. Beniamino Segre (AA)
251. Atle Selberg
     • Remembering Atle Selberg, 1917-2007, (Notices of the AMS, 56, Issue 06, 2009)
     • Atle Selberg (IAS)
     • Atle Selberg (MacTutor biography)
     • Atle Selberg (LMS Newsletter biography by Martin Huxley)
     • The lord of the numbers, Atle Selberg. On his life and mathematics, Nils A. Baas; Christian F. Skau, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
     • Some commentary on Atle Selberg's mathematics, Dennis Hejhal, Peter Sarnak
252. Sigmund Selberg (1910-1994)
253. Clas-Olaf Selenius
254. Joseph Alfred Serret (MacTutor)
255. Daniel Shanks (NAMS)
256. Andrei Borisovich Shidlovsky (RMS)
257. Takuro Shintani (J. Fac. Sci. Tokyo 28 (1981) iii-vi)
258. Lev Genrikhovich Shnirelman (MacTutor)
259. Carl Ludwig Siegel
     • Carl Ludwig Siegel (MacTutor)
     • Carl Ludwig Siegel (Göttingen biography)
260. Waclaw Sierpinski
     • Waclaw Sierpinski (MacTutor)
     • Waclaw Sierpinski (AA)
261. Stanley Skewes (Wikipedia)
262. Albert Thoralf Skolem
     • Albert Thoralf Skolem (MacTutor)
     • Thoralf Albert Skolem (A Biographical Sketch: Jens Erik Fenstad, Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1996, 99-106)
263. Boris Fadeevich Skubenko (1929-1999) (see Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI 212 5-14 (1994))
264. Henry John Stephen Smith
     • Henry John Stephen Smith (MacTutor)
     • Henry John Stephen Smith (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, XLIV, 138-149, 1884)
265. Robert Arnold Smith (1937-1983) (E. Kani: Rocky Mountain J. 15 (1985) 413-415)
266. Julius Sommer
267. Vladimir Gennadievich Sprindzuk
     • Vladimir Gennadievich Sprindzuk
     • Vladimir Gennadievich Sprindzuk, Proc. Acad. Sci. Belarus
     • Publications of V.G. Sprindzuk
268. Paul Gustav Stäckel (MacTutor)
269. Sergei Borisovich Stechkin (RMS)
270. Moritz Abraham Stern (1807-1894)
271. Ludwig Stickelberger (1850-1936)
272. Thomas Jan Stieltjes (MacTutor)
273. Richard G. Stoneham (1920-1996)
274. Carl Størmer (1874-1957) (Carl Størmer in memoriam, by Viggo Brun, Acta Math. 100, 1958, i-vii)
275. Ernst Gabor Strauss
     • Ernst Gabor Strauss (Pacific J. Math.)
     • Ernst Gabor Strauss (MacTutor)
276. Erik Stridsberg (1871-1950)
277. Matukumalli Venkata Subbarao, 1921-2006 (R. Balasubramanian)
278. George Szekeres(1911-2005)
     • George Szekeres (notice by Alf van der Poorten)
     • George Szekeres reminiscences (Keith Briggs)
     • George Szekeres obituary (Australian Mathematical Society Gazette))
     • George Szekeres (MacTutor)
279. Teiji Takagi (MacTutor)
280. Ralph Tambs-Lyche (Obituary by Ernst S. Selmer, Normat 39 (1991))
281. Yutaka Taniyama (MacTutor)
282. Tikao Tatuzawa
283. M.F. Tano
284. Olga Taussky-Todd (MacTutor)
285. Paul Emery Thomas (Berkeley memorial)
286. Axel Thue
     • Axel Thue (MacTutor)
     • Axel Thue (from Selected Mathematical Papers)
287. Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze (MacTutor)
288. Nikolai Mikhailovich Timofeev (RMS)
289. Edward Charles Titchmarsh
     • Edward Charles Titchmarsh (MacTutor)
     • Edward Charles Titchmarsh (JLMS)
290. Paul Turán
     • Paul Turán (MacTutor)
     • Paul Turán (AA)
291. James Victor Uspensky (1883-1947)
292. Charles-Joseph de la Vallée Poussin
     • Charles Jean Gustave Nicolas Baron de la Vallée Poussin (MacTutor)
     • Charles-Joseph de la Vallée Poussin (JLMS)
293. Johannes Gualtherus van der Corput (AA)
294. Harry Schultz Vandiver (MacTutor)
     • A Guide to the H. S. Vandiver Papers, 1889-1977
     • A quotation by Harry S. Vandiver on Wilson primes
295. Joost van Hamel died on January 12, 2008, notice by Andrew Mathas
296. Jacobus Hendricus van Lint (MacTutor)
297. Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (JLMS 33 (1958) 252-255)
298. Askol'd Ivanovich Vinogradov (1929-2005)
299. Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov
     • Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (MacTutor)
     • Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (RMS)
     • Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (90th Birthday RMS)
     • Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (BLMS 17 (1985), 584-600)
300. Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (MacTutor)
301. Karl Georg Christian von Staudt
     • Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (MacTutor)
302. Sergei Mikhailovich Voronin (RMS)
303. Georgy Fedoseevich Voronoi (MacTutor)
304. Arnold Zel'manovich Walfisz
     • Arnold Zel'manovich Walfisz (CV by G. Lomadse)
     • Arnold Zel'manovich Walfisz (RMS)
     • Arnold Zel'manovich Walfisz (AA)
305. Edward Waring (MacTutor)
306. Morgan Ward
     • Morgan Ward (JSTOR)
     • Morgan Ward (CalTech Archives)
307. George Neville Watson (MacTutor)
308. George Leo Watson
309. Heinrich Martin Weber (MacTutor)
310. André Weil
     • On André Weil, by Yutaka Taniyama; with translation and Introduction by Mark Goresky, Keiko Kawamuro, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 667-668
     • André Weil, by Armand Borel, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 661-666
     • André Weil (MacTutor)
     • Memorial Articles on André Weil (NAMS)
     • André Weil and the Foundations of Algebraic Geometry (NAMS)
311. Alfred Edward Western (JLMS)
312. Hermann Weyl
     • Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (MacTutor)
     • Hermann Weyl (from the Göttingen biography)
313. Albert Leon Whiteman (NAMS)
314. Arthur Wieferich
315. John Raymond Wilton (Australian dictionary of Biography)
316. Anders Wiman (Trygve Nagell, Acta Math. 103 (1960) I-VI)
317. Aurel Friedrich Wintner (MacTutor)
318. Jan Wójcik (1936-1994) (A. Schinzel, Wiadom. Math. 33 (1997), 199-203)
319. Joseph Wolstenholme (MacTutor)
     • John Wrench Jr. (Washington Post)
     • John Wrench Jr. (Wikipedia)
320. Sir Edward Maitland Wright (MacTutor)
321. Hans Zassenhaus
     • Hans Zassenhaus (MacTutor)
     • Hans Zassenhaus (Ohio collection)
322. Egor Ivanovich Zolotarev
     • Egor Ivanovich Zolotarev (in Russian) (English translation by Bob Burns)
     • Egor Ivanovich Zolotarev (MacTutor)

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