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
- 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
- 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
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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.
Any corrections, extra information or links to additional online biographies should be passed on to Keith Matthews at webmaster@numbertheory.org
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- A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar
- Alexander Aigner
- William (Red) Alford
- Nesmith Ankeny
- Roger Apéry
- Friedrich Arndt (1817-1866)
- 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)
- L. Aubry
- Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (MacTutor)
- Mark Borisovich Barban (RMS)
- Eric Barnes (The Adelaidean, 20th Nov 2000, page 6)
- Eric Temple Bell (MacTutor)
- Joseph Louis François Bertrand (MacTutor)
- William Edward Hodgson Berwick (JLMS)
- Arne Karl August Beurling
- Bhaskara (MacTutor)
- Hans Frederick Blichfeldt (MacTutor. Also see Stanford University memorial page)
- Fritz Blumer (1904-1988)
- Stjepan Bohnicek (1872-1956)
- Alfred Theodore Brauer (MacTutor)
- Robert Breusch (1907-1995)
- Béla Brindza (1958-2003)
- 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)
- Aleksandr Adol'fovich Bukhshtab (RMS)
- Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (MacTutor)
- Leonard Carlitz
- Eugène Charles Catalan (MacTutor)
- Claude Chabauty
- John H.H. Chalk
- David Gawen Champernowne (ICGA Journal 23 December 2000)
- Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov (MacTutor)
- Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (MacTutor)
- Thyagaraju Chelluri
- Chen Jingrun (Acta Mathematica Sinica, New Series (1996) 12, No. 3, 225-233)
- Claude Chevalley (MacTutor)
- Sarvadaman Chowla
- Harald Cramér (MacTutor)
- Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov
- Paul Cohen (LMS newsletter), Paul Cohen biography (Wikipedia), Paul J. Cohen memorial web page
- George E. Cooke
- Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (JLMS)
- Harold Davenport
- Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (MacTutor)
- Hubert Delange (1913-2003)
- Boris Nikolaevich Delone
- 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 (Ohio collection) (Also see J. Number Theory 9 1977, v-vii)
- Mary Dolciani
- Alain Durand (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1415)
- Bernard Dwork
- Martin Eichler
- Martin Eichler (AA)
- Leben und Werk von Martin Eichler, Elemente der Mathematik 49 (1994) 45-60 (by Jürg Kramer)
- Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein (MacTutor)
- Otto Endler (1929-1988)
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene (MacTutor)
- Paul Erdös
- Theodor Estermann (BLMS)
- Dennis Estes (June 18, 1941- Feb. 1, 1999)
- Euclid of Alexandria (MacTutor)
- Leonhard Euler
- Dmitrii Konstantinovich Faddeev
- Naum Il'ich Feldman
- Pierre de Fermat
- Nathan Fine (NAMS)
- Ernests Fogels (AA)
- Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (MacTutor)
- Albrecht Fröhlich (Peter Roquette), MacTutor
- Wolfgang Fuchs (NAMS)
- Karl Rudolf Fueter
- Philipp Furtwängler (1869-1940) (Obituary: JDMV 50 1940, 167-178)
- Steve Galovich
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer (MacTutor)
- M.A. Gel'bke
- Angelo Genocchi (MacTutor)
- Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond
- Angelo Genocchi (MacTutor)
- Marie-Sophie Germain (MacTutor)
- James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (MacTutor)
- Frank Emmett Gerth III (1945-2006)
- Frank Gerth III (1945-2006)
- Herbert James Godwin (1922-2005)
- Christian Goldbach (MacTutor)
- Franz Goldscheider (1852-1926)
- William Sealey Gosset (MacTutor)
- Jorgen Pedersen Gram (MacTutor)
- Emil Grosswald
- Jacques Salomon Hadamard (MacTutor)
- Harris Hancock
- Godfrey Harold Hardy
- Colin Brian Haselgrove (MacTutor)
- Helmut Hasse
- Erich Hecke
- Kurt Heegner
- Hans Arnold Heilbronn (MacTutor)
- Kurt Hensel (MacTutor)
- Jacques Herbrand (MacTutor)
- Charles Hermite (MacTutor)
- David Hilbert
- Ludwig Holzer (1891-1968) (Rudolf Einhorn: Rostock. Math. Kolloq. No. 27, (1985) 23-30)
- Loo-keng Hua
- Adolf Hurwitz
- Albert Edward Ingham
- Kustaa Inkeri
- Kenkichi Iwasawa
- Shokichi Iyanaga (Also see Mactutor biography)
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- Ernst Jacobsthal
- 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)
- Michael Kalecki
- Irving Kaplansky
- Shri Dattathreya Ramachandra Kaprekar
- Erich Kamke
- Aubrey J. Kempner (1880-1973)
- Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (MacTutor)
- Hendrik Douwe Kloosterman
- Stanislaw Knapowski (Paul Turán, Coll. Math. 23 (1971) 309-318)
- John Knopfmacher
- Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (MacTutor)
- J.F. Koksma (1904-1964) (L. Kuipers, J. Popken: Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde XIII (1965) 1-18)
- Ivan Korec
- Alexander Nikolaevich Korkine (in Russian) (english translation by Bob Burns)
- Leopold Kronecker (MacTutor)
- Ernst Eduard Kummer (MacTutor)
- Sigekatu Kuroda (J. Number Theory 7 1975, 1-4)
- R.O. Kuz'min
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Gabriel Lamé (MacTutor)
- Edmund Georg Hermann Landau
- Serge Lang
- Bob Laxton (1933-2002)
- Victor Amédée Lebesgue (1791-1875)
- Adrien-Marie Legendre
- Derrick Henry Lehmer (AA)
- Emma Lehmer
- Cornelis Gerrit Lekkerkerker
- Mathias Lerch (MacTutor)
- William Judson LeVeque (1923-2007)
- Norman Levinson (MacTutor)
- Richard P. Lewis (LMS newsletter)
- Edward Hubert Linfoot (J.H. Bell: BLMS 16 (1984) 52-58); J. Linfoot: Math. Intelligencer 15 (1993) 39-43
- Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik
- Joseph Liouville (MacTutor)
- John Edensor Littlewood
- Wilhelm Ljunggren
- Robert Landis Long
- Salomon Lubelski (AA)
- François Edouard Anatole Lucas (MacTutor)
- Kurt Mahler
- Wilhelm Maier (1896-1990)
- Edmond Maillet
- Henry Mann (Ohio collection)
- Alla Lavrik-Männlin (March 2nd, 1964-February 14th, 2003)
- Andrei Andreyevich Markov (MacTutor)
- George Ballard Mathews
- Emile Léonard Mathieu (MacTutor)
- Daniel Friedrich Ernst Meissel (MacTutor)
- Puliyakot Kesava Menon (1917-1979) (Bull. Math. Assoc. India 18 (1986), no. 1-4, 21-24)
- Franz Mertens (MacTutor)
- 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
- Hermann Minkowski
- Dimitry Mirimanoff
- Leon Mirsky (BLMS 18 (1986) 195-206)
- Takayoshi Mitusi
- August Ferdinand Möbius (MacTutor)
- Louis Joel Mordell
- Leo Moser
- Leo Moser (1921-1970) (Reminiscences by Ambikeshwar Sharma)
- Leo Moser (Canadian Math. Bulletin 15, 1-8, 1972)
- Leo Moser (Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics1, 255-256, 1971)
- Theodore Samuel Motzkin (J. Comb. Theory (A))
- Trygve Nagell (AA)
- Jürgen Neukirch, (1937-1997) in memoriam by Theodor Bröcker
- Donald J. Newman (Temple University), Donald J. Newman (Wikipedia)
- Morris Newman
- Ivan Niven (obituary by Kenneth Ross)
- Břetislav Novák
- Robert Winston Keith Odoni (Sept 2003 issue, Glasgow Math. Journal)
- Carl Douglas Olds
- Vyacheslav Alekseevich Oleinikov (RMS)
- Alexander Oppenheim
- Hans-Heinrich Ostmann (1913-1959) (Obituary JDMV 86, 1984, 31-35)
- Oystein Ore
- Alexander Markowich Ostrowski
- Gordon Pall (no biography)
- Pan Chengdong (Also see obituary notice in Hardy-Ramanujan Journal 26 (2003) 59
- William Parry
- Wilhelm Patz (no biography)
- William Barry Pennington (BLMS)
- Oskar Perron (MacTutor)
- Hans Petersson (MacTutor)
- Théophile Pépin (1826-1904)
- Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (1901-1950) (R. Thangadurai)
- Nils Pipping (1890-1982)
- Charles Pisot (AA)
- Peter Arthur Barry Pleasants (1939-2008)
- George Pólya (MacTutor)
- J. Popken (1905-1970) (H. Jager, C.G.Lekkerkerker: Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 19 (1971) 1-9)
- Aleksei Georgievich Postnikov (RMS)
- Karl Prachar (1924-1994) (E. Hlawka: Monatshefte für Math. 121 (1996) 1-9)
- Hans Rademacher
- Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan
- Chidambaram Padmanabhan Ramanujam (MacTutor)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Robert Alexander Rankin (MacTutor)
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- Robert Remak (MacTutor)
- Alfréd Rényi
- Giovanni Ricci (AA)
- Hans-Egon Richert
- Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
- Raphael Robinson
- Kirill Andreevich Rodosskii (1913-2004)
- Claude Ambrose Rogers
- N.P. Romanov
- Arnold Ross (NAMS)
- John Barkley Rosser (Wikipedia)
- Louis Saalschütz (1835-1913)
- Raphaël Salem
- Mathieu Schaar (1817-1867)
- Peter Scherk (1910-1985)
- Theodor Schneider (J. Number Theory 39 (1991) 129-143, Errata: 41 (1992) 129)
- Arnold Scholz
- Lowell Schoenfeld (John Ewing's tribute)
- Theodor Schönemann (1812-1868)
- Issai Schur (MacTutor)
- Stefan Schwarz (MacTutor)
- Beniamino Segre (AA)
- Atle Selberg
- Sigmund Selberg (1910-1994)
- Clas-Olaf Selenius
- Joseph Alfred Serret (MacTutor)
- Daniel Shanks (NAMS)
- Andrei Borisovich Shidlovsky (RMS)
- Takuro Shintani (J. Fac. Sci. Tokyo 28 (1981) iii-vi)
- Lev Genrikhovich Shnirelman (MacTutor)
- Carl Ludwig Siegel
- Waclaw Sierpinski
- Albert Thoralf Skolem
- Boris Fadeevich Skubenko (1929-1999) (see Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI 212 5-14 (1994))
- Henry John Stephen Smith
- Robert Arnold Smith (1937-1983) (E. Kani: Rocky Mountain J. 15 (1985) 413-415)
- Julius Sommer
- Vladimir Gennadievich Sprindzuk
- Paul Gustav Stäckel (MacTutor)
- Sergei Borisovich Stechkin (RMS)
- Moritz Abraham Stern (1807-1894)
- Ludwig Stickelberger (1850-1936)
- Thomas Jan Stieltjes (MacTutor)
- Carl Størmer (1874-1957) (Carl Størmer in memoriam, by Viggo Brun, Acta Math. 100, 1958, i-vii)
- Ernst Gabor Strauss
- Erik Stridsberg (1871-1950)
- Matukumalli Venkata Subbarao, 1921-2006 (R. Balasubramanian)
- George Szekeres(1911-2005)
- Teiji Takagi (MacTutor)
- Ralph Tambs-Lyche (Obituary by Ernst S. Selmer, Normat 39 (1991))
- Yutaka Taniyama (MacTutor)
- Tikao Tatuzawa
- M.F. Tano
- Olga Taussky-Todd (MacTutor)
- Paul Emery Thomas (pdf)
- Axel Thue
- Nikolai Mikhailovich Timofeev (RMS)
- Edward Charles Titchmarsh
- Paul Turán
- James Victor Uspensky (1883-1947)
- Charles-Joseph de la Vallée Poussin
- Johannes Gualtherus van der Corput (AA)
- Harry Schultz Vandiver (MacTutor)
- Joost van Hamel died on January 12, 2008, notice by Andrew Mathas
- Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (JLMS 33 (1958) 252-255)
- Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov
- Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (MacTutor)
- Karl Georg Christian von Staudt
- Sergei Mikhailovich Voronin (RMS)
- Georgy Fedoseevich Voronoi (MacTutor)
- Arnold Zel'manovich Walfisz
- Edward Waring (MacTutor)
- George Neville Watson (MacTutor)
- George Leo Watson
- Heinrich Martin Weber (MacTutor)
- André Weil
- Alfred Edward Western (JLMS)
- Hermann Weyl
- Albert Leon Whiteman (NAMS)
- Arthur Wieferich
- Anders Wiman (Trygve Nagell, Acta Math. 103 (1960) I-VI)
- Aurel Friedrich Wintner (MacTutor)
- Jan Wójcik (1936-1994) (A. Schinzel, Wiadom. Math. 33 (1997), 199-203)
- Joseph Wolstenholme (MacTutor)
- Sir Edward Maitland Wright (MacTutor) (also BLMS 39 (2007) 857-865)
- Hans Zassenhaus
- Egor Ivanovich Zolotarev
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