G. H. Hardy
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Peter Szüsz
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Arnold Walfisz
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Bernard Frénicle de Bessy
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André Néron
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Solomon W. Golomb
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Hendrik Kloosterman
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Stanley Skewes
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Tom M. Apostol
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Pál Turán
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Daihachiro Sato
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György Elekes
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W. R. (Red) Alford
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Conrad Henfling
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Ernst Sejersted Selmer
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Péter Kiss (mathematician)
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Kenkichi Iwasawa
Kenkichi Iwasawa (岩澤 健吉 Iwasawa Kenkichi, September 11, 1917 – October 26, 1998) was a Japanese mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory.
George Leo Watson
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Atle Selberg
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Thābit ibn Qurra
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Andrzej Schinzel
Andrzej Bobola Maria Schinzel (5 April 1937 – 21 August 2021) was a Polish mathematician studying mainly number theory.
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt (1807 – 15 February 1851) was a German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist of Jewish descent who was a professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen. He
Heinrich Martin Weber
Heinrich Martin Weber (5 March 1842, Heidelberg, Germany – 17 May 1913, Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire, now Strasbourg, France) was a German mathematician. Weber's main work was in algebra,
Goro Shimura
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Leonard Eugene Dickson
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Sophie Germain
Marie-Sophie Germain (French: [maʁi sɔfi ʒɛʁmɛ̃]; 1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties pres
Anatoly Karatsuba
Anatoly Alexeyevich Karatsuba (his first name often spelled Anatolii) (Russian: Анато́лий Алексе́евич Карацу́ба; Grozny, Soviet Union, 31 January 1937 – Moscow, Russia, 28 September 2008) was a Russia
E. H. Moore
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Élisabeth Lutz
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Ivan Ivanov (mathematician)
Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (Russian: Иван Иванович Иванов; 11 August 1862 – 17 December 1939) was a Russian-Soviet mathematician who worked in the field of number theory. Together with Georgy Voronoy he co
Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt
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Paul A. Catlin
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Ferdinand von Lindemann
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (12 April 1852 – 6 March 1939) was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π (pi) is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root o
László Rédei
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Fibonacci
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Bohuslav Diviš
Bohuslav Diviš (December 20 1942 in Prague – July 26 1976 in Normal, Illinois, United States) was a Czech mathematician, who worked in the field of number theory. Bohuslav Diviš won the Czechoslovak a
Claude Chevalley
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Harry Vandiver
Harry Schultz Vandiver (21 October 1882 – 9 January 1973) was an American mathematician, known for work in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to John Lyon and Ida Frances (Everet
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher FRS FRSE FRAS (5 November 1848, Lewisham – 7 December 1928, Cambridge), son of James Glaisher and Cecilia Glaisher, was a prolific English mathematician and astronomer. Hi
Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma
Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma (21 April 1904, Schoterland – 17 December 1964, Amsterdam) was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory. Koksma received his Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in
Charles Hermite
Charles Hermite (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ɛʁˈmit]) FRS FRSE MIAS (24 December 1822 – 14 January 1901) was a French mathematician who did research concerning number theory, quadratic forms, invaria
Roger Apéry
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Edmund Landau
Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (14 February 1877 – 19 February 1938) was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.
Christopher Hooley
Christopher Hooley FRS FLSW (7 August 1928 – 13 December 2018) was a British mathematician, professor of mathematics at Cardiff University. He did his PhD under the supervision of Albert Ingham. He wo
John Edensor Littlewood
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Leonhard Euler
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Luca Pacioli
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Wang Yuan (mathematician)
Wang Yuan (Chinese: 王元; pinyin: Wáng Yuán; 29 April 1930 – 14 May 2021) was a Chinese mathematician and writer known for his contributions to the Goldbach conjecture. He was a president of the Chinese
Jerzy Browkin
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Richard Dedekind
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Nikolai Chebotaryov
Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov (often spelled Chebotarov or Chebotarev, Ukrainian: Мико́ла Григо́рович Чеботарьо́в, Russian: Никола́й Григо́рьевич Чеботарёв) (15 June [O.S. 3 June] 1894 – 2 July 194
Patrick X. Gallagher
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Viggo Brun
Viggo Brun (13 October 1885 – 15 August 1978) was a Norwegian professor, mathematician and number theorist.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (/dʒəˈkoʊbi/; German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, different
Martin Eichler
Martin Maximilian Emil Eichler (29 March 1912 – 7 October 1992) was a German number theorist. Eichler received his Ph.D. from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1936. Eichler and Goro
George Blakley
George Robert (Bob) Blakley Jr. was an American cryptographer and a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University, best known for inventing a secret sharing scheme in 1979 (see ).
George B. Purdy
George Barry Purdy (20 February 1944 – 30 December 2017) was a mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in cryptography, combinatorial geometry and number theory. Purdy received his Ph.D.
Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat (French: [pjɛʁ də fɛʁma]; between 31 October and 6 December 1607 – 12 January 1665) was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal cal
Henry Mann
Henry Berthold Mann (27 October 1905, Vienna – 1 February 2000, Tucson) was a professor of mathematics and statistics at the Ohio State University. Mann proved the Schnirelmann-Landau conjecture in nu
Arthur Wieferich
Arthur Josef Alwin Wieferich (April 27, 1884 – September 15, 1954) was a German mathematician and teacher, remembered for his work on number theory, as exemplified by a type of prime numbers named aft
Jean-Pierre Wintenberger
Jean-Pierre Wintenberger (1954 – 23 January 2019) was a French mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Strasbourg. He was corecipient of the 2011 Cole Prize in number theory,
Taira Honda
Taira Honda (本田 平, Honda Taira, 2 June 1932 Fukui, Japan – 15 May 1975 Osaka, Japan) was a Japanese mathematician working on number theory who proved the Honda–Tate theorem classifying abelian varieti
Joichi Suetsuna
Joichi Suetsuna (Japanese: 末綱 恕一 Suetsuna Joichi; alternative Romanziation: Zyoiti Suetuna; November 28, 1898 – August 6, 1970) was a Japanese mathematician who worked mainly on number theory. In addi
Joseph Wolstenholme
Joseph Wolstenholme (30 September 1829 – 18 November 1891) was an English mathematician. Wolstenholme was born in Eccles near Salford, Lancashire, England, the son of a Methodist minister, Joseph Wols
James Cullen (mathematician)
Father James Cullen, S.J. (19 April 1867 – 7 December 1933) was born at Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. He was born at 89 West Street, Drogheda, to Michael Cullen, a baker, and Catherine McDonough. I
Ernst Meissel
Daniel Friedrich Ernst Meissel (31 July 1826, Eberswalde, Brandenburg Province – 11 March 1895, Kiel) was a German astronomer who contributed to various aspects of number theory.
Helmut Hasse
Helmut Hasse (German: [ˈhasə]; 25 August 1898 – 26 December 1979) was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the applicat
Lev Schnirelmann
Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann (also Shnirelman, Shnirel'man; Лев Ге́нрихович Шнирельма́н; 2 January 1905 – 24 September 1938) was a Soviet mathematician who worked on number theory, topology and diffe
Mabel Gweneth Humphreys
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Samuel Yates
Samuel Yates (May 10, 1919 in Savannah, Georgia – April 22, 1991 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) was a computer engineer and mathematician who first described unique primes in the 1980s. In 1984 he bega
Anton Felkel
Anton Felkel (26 April 1740, Kamenz, Silesia – c. 1800, possibly in Lisbon, Portugal) was an Austrian mathematician who worked on the determination of prime numbers.
Emil Artin
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Norman J. Pullman
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Reinhold Strassmann
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David Hilbert
David Hilbert (/ˈhɪlbərt/; German: [ˈdaːvɪt ˈhɪlbɐt]; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. H
Harold Edwards (mathematician)
Harold Mortimer Edwards, Jr. (August 6, 1936 – November 10, 2020) was an American mathematician working in number theory, algebra, and the history and philosophy of mathematics. He was one of the co-f
Vasily Vladimirov
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James A. Clarkson
James Andrew Clarkson (7 February 1906 – 6 June 1970) was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics who specialized in number theory. He is known for proving inequalities in Hölder spaces
Marvin Knopp
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Eratosthenes
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Ivan M. Niven
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Theodor Vahlen
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Rudolf Fueter
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Pafnuty Chebyshev
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Tibor Šalát
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Friedrich Karl Schmidt
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Jonas Kubilius
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Martin Kneser
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Gordon Pall
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Adolph Winkler Goodman
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Edward Waring
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Hans Rademacher
Hans Adolph Rademacher (German: [ˈʁaːdəmaxɐ]; 3 April 1892, Wandsbeck, now Hamburg-Wandsbek – 7 February 1969, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA) was a German-born American mathematician, known for work in
Leonidas Alaoglu
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Alessandro Padoa
Alessandro Padoa (14 October 1868 – 25 November 1937) was an Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, give
Vladimir Gennadievich Sprindzuk
Vladimir Gennadievich Sprindzuk (Russian Владимир Геннадьевич Спринджук, Belarusian Уладзімір Генадзевіч Спрынджук, 22 July 1936, Minsk – 26 July 1987) was a Soviet-Belarusian number theorist.
Nesmith Ankeny
Nesmith Cornett Ankeny (1927, Walla Walla, Washington – 4 August 1993, Seattle) was an American mathematician specialising in number theory. After Army service, he studied at Stanford University and o
Euclid
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Johan Jensen (mathematician)
Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen, mostly known as Johan Jensen (8 May 1859 – 5 March 1925), was a Danish mathematician and engineer. He was the president of the Danish Mathematical Society from 18
Richard S. Varga
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Trygve Nagell
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Christian Goldbach
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Franz Mertens
Franz Mertens (20 March 1840 – 5 March 1927) (also known as Franciszek Mertens) was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Schroda in the Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Środa Wielkopols
Ernst Kummer
Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in
Erich Hecke
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Joseph Bertrand
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Klaus Roth
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Barry Pennington
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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Victor-Amédée Lebesgue
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Paul T. Bateman
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Jürgen Neukirch
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Carl Ludwig Siegel
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Alan Baker (mathematician)
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A. O. L. Atkin
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John Wilson (mathematician and judge)
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Philippe Flajolet
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Richard K. Guy
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Derrick Norman Lehmer
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Harold Davenport
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Johannes van der Corput
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James Joseph Sylvester
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Peter Roquette
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Jérôme Franel
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Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac
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Daniel Shanks
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Paul Epstein
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Pierre Hérigone
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Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
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Rodion Kuzmin
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Nikolaus Hofreiter
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Helge von Koch
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Qin Jiushao
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Alfréd Rényi
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Jacques de Billy
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Carl D. Olds
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Peter Montgomery (mathematician)
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Yuri Linnik
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Paul Stäckel
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Donald Dines Wall
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Alexander Aigner
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Burton Wadsworth Jones
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