1. Thomas Carlyle (1795)

British Mathematician

Remembered for his satirical and historical publications, this nineteenth-century, Scottish-born author penned such famous works as On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History; Sartor Resartus; and The French Revolution:...

2. Frank Adams (1930)

British Mathematician

John Frank Adams FRS was a British mathematician one of the founders of homotopy theory.

3. Martin Hairer (1975)

British Mathematician

Martin Hairer FRS is a mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis in particular stochastic partial differential equations. In 2008 he was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London...

4. Richard K. Guy (1916)

British Mathematician

Richard Kenneth Guy is a British mathematician Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Calgary. He is best known for co-authorship of Winning Ways for your...

5. G. S. Carr (Unknow)

British Mathematician

George Shoobridge Carr was a British mathematician. He wrote Synopsis of Pure Mathematics. This book first published in England in 1880 was read and studied closely by Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan...

6. William Shaw (mathematician) (1958)

British Mathematician

Shaw is a British professor of the mathematics and computation of risk at University College London.

7. Ioan James (1928)

British Mathematician

Ioan Mackenzie James FRS is a British mathematician working in the field of topology particularly in homotopy theory. James was born in Croydon Surrey England and was educated at St...

8. Bryan John Birch (1931)

British Mathematician

Bryan John Birch F. R. S. is a British mathematician. His name has been given to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. He was born in Burton-on-Trent the son of...

9. Philip Hall (1904)

British Mathematician

Philip Hall FRS was an English mathematician. His major work was on group theory notably on finite groups and solvable groups.

10. Charles Scarborough (1615)

British Mathematician

Sir Charles Scarborough MP FRS FRCP was an English physician and mathematician. Scarborough was born in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields London in 1615 the son of Edmund Scarburgh and was sent to...

11. Neil Sloane (1939)

British Mathematician

Neil James Alexander Sloane is a British-U. S. mathematician. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics error-correcting codes and sphere packing. Sloane is best known for being the...

12. David Spiegelhalter (1953)

British Mathematician

David John Spiegelhalter OBE FRS is a distinguished British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory University of Cambridge...

13. Mary Rees (1953)

British Mathematician

Susan Mary Rees FRS is a British mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at Liverpool University since 2002 specialising in research in complex dynamical systems. After obtaining her BA in...

14. Martin T. Barlow (1953)

British Mathematician

Martin Thomas Barlow FRS FRSC is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992.

15. Terry Lyons (mathematician) (1953)

British Mathematician

Terence Terry John Lyons FRSE FLSW FRS is a British mathematician specializing in stochastic analysis. His mathematical contributions have been to probability to the numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations...

16. Thomas William Körner (1946)

British Mathematician

Thomas William Körner is a British pure mathematician and the author of school books. He is titular Professor of Fourier Analysis in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of...

17. Timothy Browning (1976)

British Mathematician

Timothy Browning is a mathematician working in number theory examining the interface of analytic number theory and Diophantine geometry. Browning is currently a Professor of number theory at the University...

18. Stephen Wolfram (1959)

British Mathematician

Stephen Wolfram is a scientist and technologist known for his work in theoretical physics as the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine as...

19. David Avis (1951)

British Mathematician

David Michael Avis is a Canadian and British computer scientist known for his contributions to geometric computations. Avis is a professor in computational geometry and applied mathematics in the School...

20. Richard D. Gill (1951)

British Mathematician

Richard David Gill is a mathematician born in the United Kingdom who has lived in the Netherlands since 1974. As a probability theorist and statistician Gill is known for his...

21. Andrew Granville (1962)

British Mathematician

Andrew James Granville is a British mathematician working in the field of number theory. He has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 2002. Before moving to...

22. J. W. Bruce (1952)

British Mathematician

James William Bill Bruce is a British mathematician whose main contributions are in singularity theory and related areas. He is currently the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University.

23. Roger Heath-Brown (1952)

British Mathematician

David Rodney Roger Heath-Brown F. R. S. is a British mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory.

24. Desmond Higham (1964)

British Mathematician

Desmond John Higham is a numerical analyst and 1966 Chair of Numerical Analysis in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow United Kingdom. He is...

25. Martin J. Taylor (1952)

British Mathematician

Sir Martin John Taylor FRS was professor of pure mathematics at the School of Mathematics University of Manchester and prior to its formation and merger UMIST where he was appointed...

26. Lloyd N. Trefethen (1955)

British Mathematician

Nicholas Nick Trefethen FRS is professor of numerical analysis and head of the Numerical Analysis Group at the Mathematical Institute University of Oxford.

27. Nicholas Shepherd-Barron (1955)

British Mathematician

Nicholas Ian Shepherd-Barron born 17 March 1955 is a British mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He is since 2013 professor of mathematics at King's College London having moved there from...

28. Jonathan Partington (1955)

British Mathematician

Jonathan R. Partington is an English mathematician.

29. Endre Süli (1956)

British Mathematician

Endre Süli is Professor of Numerical Analysis in the Mathematical Institute University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at Worcester College Oxford and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College Oxford.

30. Kevin Buzzard (1968)

British Mathematician

Kevin Mark Buzzard is a British mathematician and currently a Professor of Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. He specialises in algebraic number theory. He obtained a B. A. degree...

31. Keith Martin Ball (1960)

British Mathematician

Keith Martin Ball FRS FRSE is a mathematician and professor at the University of Warwick and director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

32. Graham Everest (Unknow)

British Mathematician

Graham Everest was a British mathematician. Everest came from a working-class family and studied at Bedford College of the University of London: he took a Ph. D. in 1983 under...

33. Charles Hayes (mathematician) (1678)

British Mathematician

Charles Hayes was an English mathematician and chronologist author of an early book on the method of fluxions. He was also a long-term official and defender of the Royal African...

34. Christopher Hacon (1970)

British Mathematician

Christopher Derek Hacon is a mathematician with British Italian and US nationalities. He is currently distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Utah. His research interests include algebraic geometry....

35. Peter Keevash (1978)

British Mathematician

Peter Keevash is a British mathematician specializing in combinatorics. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Mansfield College.

36. Samuel Roberts (mathematician) (1827)

British Mathematician

Samuel Roberts FRS was a British mathematician. Roberts studied at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Horncastle. He matriculated in 1845 at the University of London where he earned in 1847 his...

37. Alan Davies (mathematician) (Unknow)

British Mathematician

Alan Davies is a professor of mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire. He was the head of the School of Physics Astronomy and Mathematics until he retired in 2007. Now...

38. Charles Howard Hinton (Unknow)

British Mathematician

Charles Howard Hinton was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled Scientific Romances. He was interested in higher dimensions particularly the fourth dimension. He is known for...

39. Hyman Levy (1889)

British Mathematician

Hyman Levy FRSE was a Scottish philosopher Emeritus Professor of Imperial College London mathematician political activist and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The son of Minna Cohen and...

40. George Boole (1815)

British Mathematician

George Boole was an English mathematician philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic and is now best known as the author of The...

41. Hugh MacColl (1837)

British Mathematician

Hugh MacColl was a Scot who trained as a mathematician and became a logician.

42. Wilfrid Hodges (1941)

British Mathematician

Augustine Hodges FBA is a British mathematician known for his work in model theory. He was Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary University of London from 1987 to 2006 and...

43. E. T. Whittaker (1873)

British Mathematician

Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE was an English mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics mathematical physics and the theory of special functions. He had a particular interest in numerical...

44. Frederick Rowbottom (Unknow)

British Mathematician

Rowbottom was a British logician and mathematician. The large cardinal notion of Rowbottom cardinals is named after him.

45. Thomas Bayes (Unknow)

British Mathematician

Thomas Bayes was an English statistician philosopher and Presbyterian minister known for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem. Bayes never published what...

46. Ian Stewart (mathematician) (1945)

British Mathematician

Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick England and a widely known popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is the first recipient of the...

47. Ben Green (mathematician) (1977)

British Mathematician

Ben Joseph Green FRS is a British mathematician specializing in combinatorics and number theory. He is the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

48. Nicholas Higham (1961)

British Mathematician

Nicholas John Higham FRS is a British numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.

49. Imre Leader (1963)

British Mathematician

Imre Bennett Leader is a British mathematician and Othello player. He is Professor of Pure Mathematics specifically combinatorics at the University of Cambridge. He was educated at St Paul's School...

50. Clive Humby (1955)

British Mathematician

Clive Humby is a famous British mathematician, who was born on February 3, 1955 in United Kingdom. Clive Robert Humby OBE (born 3 February 1955) is a British mathematician and...