After Galileo's death on 8 January 1642, Grand Duke Ferdinando II de ' Medici asked him to succeed Galileo as the grand-ducal mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa.

Academician Mikhail Alexeyevich Lavrentyev, a physicist and mathematician, the first Chairman of the Siberian Division of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, played a prominent role in establishing Akademgorodok.

This is somewhat ironic, since arguably Weil was the mathematician of the 1940s and 1950s who best played the Hilbert role, being conversant with nearly all areas of ( theoretical ) mathematics and having been important in the development of many of them.

) ( 1962 ), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir Alec Guinness ; I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role ; Hot Enough for June, ( aka " Agent 8¾ ") ( 1964 ), a James Bond-type spy spoof co-starring Robert Morley ; Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey ; The Fixer ( 1968 ), based on Bernard Malamud's novel, co-starring Alan Bates ; Sebastian ( 1968 ), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with Susannah York, a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for British Intelligence, also co-starring Sir John Gielgud, and Lilli Palmer, co-produced by Michael Powell ; Oh!

Pedro Nunes lived in a transition period, during which science was changing from valuing theoretical knowledge ( which defined the main role of a scientist / mathematician as commenting on previous authors ), to providing experimental data, both as a source of information and as a method of confirming theories.

In 1841, the French mathematician, Michel Chasles was one of the first to reevaluate his role in the development of modern algebra.

* Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.

* David Salisbury, VU mathematician played key role in moon landing, Vanderbilt University News, July 2009.

Hestenes emphasizes the important role of the mathematician Hermann Grassmann for the development of geometric algebra, with William Kingdon Clifford building on Grassmann's work.

Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ( alternative names are Facio or Faccio ) ( 26 February 1664 – 12 May 1753 ) was a Swiss mathematician known for his work on the zodiacal light problem, for his very close relationship with Isaac Newton, for his role in the Newton v. Leibniz calculus controversy, and for originating the " push " or " shadow " theory of gravitation.

After attending a one-year course at London drama school Arts Educational, he launched his professional acting career playing the lead role of Alan Turing, the gay mathematician, in the play Breaking the Code.

The 1948 book Cybernetics: Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, by mathematician Norbert Wiener from MIT played an important role in the development of the Barrons ' composition.

His final film role was in 1994's I. Q., playing philosopher / mathematician Kurt Gödel.

In 2010 Kang made her stage debut in Proof, playing the role of Catherine, who worries about whether she has inherited all of her mathematician father ’ s genius and lunacy.

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

The philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig in 1646, and attended the university from 1661 to 1666.

Natural deduction in its modern form was independently proposed by the German mathematician Gentzen in 1935, in a dissertation delivered to the faculty of mathematical sciences of the university of Göttingen.

* Tan Sri Professor Sir Alexander Oppenheim, British mathematician, started a POW university for his fellow workers

Wiener was unable to secure a permanent position at Harvard, a situation he blamed largely on anti-semitism at the university and in particular on the antipathy of Harvard mathematician G. D. Birkhoff.

The Jewish mathematician Felix Hausdorff was expelled from the university in 1935 and committed suicide after learning about his impending deportation to a concentration camp in 1942.

Milutin Milanković (, pronounced ; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958 ) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, civil engineer, doctor of technology, university professor, and writer.

At the time of its publication, Galileo was a mathematician at the university of Padua, and had recently received a lifetime contract for his work in building more powerful telescopes.

The illustrious Jesuit mathematician, physicist, and inventor Athanasius Kircher also taught at the university during this period.

Chemist Edward Frankland and mathematician Thomas Archer Hirst, both of whom Tyndall had known since before going to university in Germany, were members too.

The mathematician Abraham Fraenkel, who was a professor of mathematics in Jerusalem, intervened with the army command, and Rabin was discharged to study at the university in 1949.

Stanisław Saks ( December 30, 1897 – November 23, 1942 ) was a Polish mathematician and university tutor, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali – Hahn – Saks theorem.

Carl Friedrich Hindenburg, a university mathematician, kept a record of the conversations during the Turk's time in Leipzig and published it in 1789 as Über den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und dessen Nachbildung ( or On the Chessplayer of Mr. von Kempelen And Its Replica ).

Nuno Crato, a Portuguese university professor, researcher, mathematician, economist, and writer who has been appointed president of both the Portuguese Mathematical Society and Taguspark, studied for a while at the Faculdade de Ciências before changing his mind and graduate at the ISEG-Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão / Technical University of Lisbon, embracing a notable academic career.

Alfred Gomolka, Member of the European Parliament for the CDU, worked for the university as well as the mathematician Felix Hausdorff. Bernhard Windscheid is one of the fathers of present German civil law.

* Norman Arthur Wiegmann ( 1920-2001 ), an American mathematician and university professor

* Ralph Faudree – A prominent mathematician with a focus on Ramsey Theory, he is currently provost of the university.

* Norman Macleod Ferrers ( 1829 – 1903 ), a British mathematician and university administrator.

Throughout its history, the university has benefited from the presence of many learned men and distinguished scientists who wrote celebrated works and made important discoveries e. g. the mathematician Girolamo Cardano ( born in Pavia, 1501 – 76 ), the physicist Alessandro Volta ( Pavia chair of natural philosophy 1769-1804 ), the poet Ugo Foscolo ( chair of Italian eloquence 1809-10 ), and the physician Camillo Golgi ( at Pavia from 1861 ).

Other university professors included such giants of the science world as the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1806 – 07 ), the biologist Karl Ernst von Baer ( 1817 – 34 ), the mathematician Carl Gustav Jacobi ( 1829 – 42 ), the mineralogist Franz Ernst Neumann ( 1828 – 76 ) and the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz ( 1849 – 55 ).

Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky ( October 29, 1925 – June 17, 2012 ) was a Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, chess writer, and chess official.

Bronisław Knaster ( 22 May 1893 in Warsaw-3 November 1980 in Wrocław ) was a Polish mathematician ; from 1939 university professor in Lwów, from 1945 in Wrocław.

Robert Lee Moore ( November 14, 1882 – October 4, 1974 ) was an American mathematician, known for his work in general topology and the Moore method of teaching university mathematics.

The searchable database contains the name of the mathematician, university which awarded the degree, year when the degree was awarded, title of the dissertation, names of the advisor and 2nd advisor, a flag of the country where the degree was awarded, a listing of doctoral students, and a count of academic descendants.

The city is notable for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture, and as the birthplace of the preeminent mathematician and engineer Archimedes.

The word " Algorism ", comes from the name Al-Khwārizmī ( c. 780-850 ), a Persian mathematician, astronomer, a geographer and a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, whose name means " the native of Kharazm ", a city that was part of the Greater Iran during his era and now is in modern day Uzbekistan He wrote a treatise in Arabic language in the 9th century, which was translated into Latin in the 12th century under the title Algoritmi de numero Indorum.

* The Victorian era mathematician Augustus De Morgan expanded on this with a similar verse: