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Ilka Agricola Ilka Agricola (born 8 August 1973 in The Hague)Curriculum vitae
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Rudolf Ahlswede Rudolf F. Ahlswede (15 September 1938 – 18 December 2010) was a German mathematician. Born in Dielmissen, Germany, he studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis in 1966, at the University of Göttingen, with the ...

Wilhelm Ahrens Wilhelm Ahrens (3 March 1872 – 23 May 1927) was a German mathematician and writer on recreational mathematics. Biography Ahrens was born in Lübz at the Elde in Mecklenburg and studied from 1890 to 1897 at the University of Rostock, Humboldt U ...

* Oskar Anderson * Karl Apfelbacher *

Philipp Apian Philipp Apian (14 September 1531 – 14 November 1589) was a German mathematician and medic. The son of Petrus Apianus (1495–1552), he is also known as the cartographer of Bavaria. Life He was born in Ingolstadt as Philipp Bienewitz (or Benne ...

Petrus Apianus Petrus Apianus (April 16, 1495 – April 21, 1552), also known as Peter Apian, Peter Bennewitz, and Peter Bienewitz, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. His work on "cosmography", the field that de ...

Michael Artin Michael Artin (; born 28 June 1934) is a German-American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematics department, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry.Günter Asser Günter Asser (26 February 1926, Berlin – 23 March 2015) was a professor emeritus of logic and mathematics at the University of Greifswald. He published numerous volumes on philosophers and mathematicians. His own research was in computabilit ...

* Bruno Augenstein *

Georg Aumann Georg Aumann (11 November 1906, Munich, Germany – 4 August 1980), was a German mathematician. He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, rec ...

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Isaak Bacharach Isaak Bacharach (2 December 1854 – 22 September 1942) was a German mathematics professor in Erlangen who proved the Cayley–Bacharach theorem on intersections of cubic curves. He was murdered at the Theresienstadt concentration camp durin ...

Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (22 June 1837 – 31 March 1920) was a German mathematician. Life Bachmann studied mathematics at the university of his native city of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1862 for his thesis on group theory. He th ...

Reinhold Baer Reinhold Baer (22 July 1902 – 22 October 1979) was a German mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. Biography Baer studied mechanical engineering f ...

Christian Bär Christian Bär (born 17 September 1962 in Kaiserslautern) is a German mathematician, whose research concerns differential geometry and mathematical physics. Bär enrolled on Ph.D. studies at the University of Bonn as a student of Hans Werner ...

Wolf Barth The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly ...

Friedrich L. Bauer Friedrich Ludwig "Fritz" Bauer (10 June 1924 – 26 March 2015) was a German pioneer of computer science and professor at the Technical University of Munich. Life Bauer earned his Abitur in 1942 and served in the Wehrmacht during World War ...

* August Beer *

Walter Benz Walter Benz (May 2, 1931 Lahnstein – January 13, 2017 Ratzeburg) was a German mathematician, an expert in geometry. Benz studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and received his doctoral degree in 1954, with Robert Furch as his ad ...

Rudolf Berghammer Rudolf Berghammer (born 1952 in Oberndorf, Germany) is a German mathematician who works in computer science. Life Rudolf Berghammer worked as an electrician at the Farbwerke Hoechst, Kelheim, from 1966 until 1970. He began studying Mathematics ...

* Felix Bernstein *

Ludwig Berwald Ludwig Berwald (8 December 1883 – 20 April 1942) was a German mathematician best known for his contributions to differential geometry, especially Finsler geometry. He taught in Munich and Prague for 32 years, publishing 54 papers, before ...

Friedrich Bessel Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the sun to another star by the method ...

Karl Bobek Karl Joseph Bobek (1855–1899) was a German mathematician working on elliptic functions and geometry Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distanc ...

Friedrich Böhm Friedrich Böhm (* 15 August 1885 in Harburg (Swabia) near Donauwörth, died 25 August 1965 in Munich) was a German actuarial and insurance mathematician and university lecturer. During World War II, Böhm was conscripted into Group IV of Insp ...

Oskar Bolza Oskar Bolza (12 May 1857 – 5 July 1942) was a German mathematician, and student of Felix Klein. He was born in Bad Bergzabern, Palatinate, then a district of Bavaria, known for his research in the calculus of variations, particularly influe ...

Karl-Heinz Boseck Karl-Heinz Boseck (born 11 December 1915) was a German mathematician. According to Segal (2003), Boseck was a fanatical National Socialist and a student leader. He was an informer of the Gestapo since 1939. In 1944, shortly after his diploma gradu ...

Hermann Bottenbruch Hermann Bottenbruch (14 September 1928 – 20 May 2019) was a German mathematician and computer scientist. Bottenbruch grew up in . Toward the end of World War II, he served as a . In 1947, he began the study of mathematics at the where he grad ...

Benjamin Bramer Benjamin Bramer (15 February 1588 – 17 March 1652) was a German mathematician, architect, inventor, and adviser. Early life Bramer was born on 15 February 1588 in Felsberg, Germany to a Protestant minister father. The minister later died when ...

* Andreas Brandstädt * Heinrich Brandt *

Richard Brauer Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular represent ...

Hel Braun Helene (Hel) Braun (June 3, 1914 – May 15, 1986) was a German mathematician who specialized in number theory and modular forms. Her autobiography, ''The Beginning of A Scientific Career,'' described her experience as a female scientist working ...

Alexander von Brill Alexander Wilhelm von Brill (20 September 1842 – 18 June 1935) was a German mathematician. Born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Brill was educated at the University of Giessen, where he earned his doctorate under supervision of Alfred Clebsch. He held a c ...

Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix (20 February 1798 – 14 February 1870) was a German mathematician and engineer.

Max Brückner Johannes Max Brückner (5 August 1860 – 1 November 1934) was a German geometer, known for his collection of polyhedral models. Education and career Brückner was born in Hartau, in the Kingdom of Saxony, a town that is now part of Zittau, ...

* Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff *

Heinrich Bruns Ernst Heinrich Bruns (4 September 1848 – 23 September 1919) was a German mathematician and astronomer, who also contributed to the development of the field of theoretical geodesy. Early life Heinrich Bruns was born on 4 September 1848 in Be ...

Roland Bulirsch Roland Zdeněk Bulirsch (10 November 1932 – 21 September 2022) was a German mathematician specialising in numerical analysis. He studied and taught at the Technical University of Munich, and taught internationally as visiting professor. He was ...

Johann Karl Burckhardt Johann Karl Burckhardt (30 April 1773 – 22 June 1825) was a German-born astronomer and mathematician. He later became a naturalized French citizen and became known as Jean Charles Burckhardt. He is remembered in particular for his work in funda ...

Heinrich Burkhardt Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt (15 October 1861 – 2 November 1914) was a German mathematician. He famously was one of the two examiners of Albert Einstein's PhD thesis ''Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen''. Of Einstein' ...

Hans Heinrich Bürmann Hans Heinrich Bürmann (died 21 June 1817, in Mannheim) was a German mathematician and teacher. He ran an "academy of commerce" in Mannheim since 1795 where he used to teach mathematics. He also served as a censor in Mannheim. He was nominated He ...

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Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( , ; – January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician. He played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of ...

Constantin Carathéodory Constantin Carathéodory ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή, Konstantinos Karatheodori; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant ...

Wilhelm Cauer Wilhelm Cauer (24 June 1900 – 22 April 1945) was a German mathematician and scientist. He is most noted for his work on the analysis and synthesis of electrical filters and his work marked the beginning of the field of network synthesis. Prio ...

Ludolph van Ceulen Ludolph van Ceulen (, ; 28 January 1540 – 31 December 1610) was a German-Dutch mathematician from Hildesheim. He emigrated to the Netherlands. Biography Van Ceulen moved to Delft most likely in 1576 to teach fencing and mathematics and in 159 ...

* Otfried Cheong *

David Christiani David Christiani (25 December 1610 – 13 February 1688) was a German mathematician, philosopher and Lutheran theologian. He became an ordinary professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg in 1643, ordinary professor of theology at the ...

Christopher Clavius Christopher Clavius, SJ (25 March 1538 – 6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar inve ...

* Stephan Cohn-Vossen *

Paul Cohn Paul Moritz Cohn FRS (8 January 1924 – 20 April 2006) was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986–1989, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutat ...

Armin B. Cremers Armin Bernd Cremers (born June 7, 1946) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor in the computer science institute at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is most notable for his contributions to several fields of discre ...

Peter Crüger Peter Crüger or Peter Krüger (20 October 1580 – 6 June 1639) was a mathematician, astronomer, polymath, and teacher of Johannes Hevelius. Life Crüger was born in Königsberg, Duchy of Prussia, a fief of the Kingdom of Poland. In scientifi ...

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Richard Dedekind Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic. His ...

* Herbert von Denffer *

Christopher Deninger Christopher Deninger (born 8 April 1958) is a German mathematician at the University of Münster. Deninger's research focuses on arithmetic geometry, including applications to L-function, ''L''-functions. Career Deninger obtained his doctorate fr ...

* Otto Dersch *

Max Deuring Max Deuring (9 December 1907 – 20 December 1984) was a German mathematician. He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry, in particular on elliptic curves in characteristic p. He worked also in analytic number theory. Deuring graduated fr ...

* Anton Deusing *

Wolfgang Doeblin Wolfgang Doeblin, known in France as Vincent Doblin (17 March 1915 – 21 June 1940), was a French-German mathematician. Life A native of Berlin, Wolfgang was the son of the Jewish-German novelist and physician, Alfred Döblin, and Erna Reiss. ...

* Gustav Doetsch *

Andreas Dress Andreas Dress (born 26 August 1938) is a German mathematician specializing in geometry, combinatorics and mathematical biology. Dress earned his PhD from the University of Kiel in 1962, under the supervision of Friedrich Bachmann and Karl-Heinr ...

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Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus (born 22 February 1939 in Hemer, Province of Westphalia) is a German mathematician and logician. He received his PhD in 1967 at the University of Münster under Hans Hermes and Dieter Rödding. Ebbinghaus has written va ...

* Carl Gottlieb Ehler *

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 Shimura developed a method to constr ...

* Lorentz Eichstadt *

Bettina Eick Bettina Eick is a German mathematician specializing in computational group theory. She is Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Technische Universität (TU) Braunschweig. Life and education Eick was born on May ...

* Kirsten Eisenträger *

Joachim Engel Joachim Engel (born 1954) is a German scientist and a professor. Since 2006 he has been professor of Mathematics and Mathematical Education at the Ludwigsburg University of Education, after two years as a Professor of Mathematical Education at L ...

* Karin Erdmann * Andreas von Ettingshausen

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Johann Faulhaber Johann Faulhaber (5 May 1580 – 10 September 1635) was a German mathematician. Born in Ulm, Faulhaber was a trained weaver who later took the role of a surveyor of the city of Ulm. He collaborated with Johannes Kepler and Ludolph van Ceulen. Bes ...

Gustav Fechner Gustav Theodor Fechner (; ; 19 April 1801 – 18 November 1887) was a German physicist, philosopher, and experimental psychologist. A pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics (techniques for measuring the mind), he inspired ...

* Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov * Käte Fenchel *

Paul Finsler Paul Finsler (born 11 April 1894, in Heilbronn, Germany, died 29 April 1970 in Zurich, Switzerland) was a German and Swiss mathematician. Finsler did his undergraduate studies at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, and his graduate studies at ...

* Felix Finster * Bernd Fischer * Hans Fitting *

Andreas Floer Andreas Floer (; 23 August 1956 – 15 May 1991) was a German mathematician who made seminal contributions to symplectic topology, and mathematical physics, in particular the invention of Floer homology. Floer's first pivotal contribution was a so ...

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Wilhelm von Freeden Wilhelm Ihno Adolf von Freeden (12 May 1822 Norden, Lower Saxony – 11 January 1894 Bonn) was a German mathematician and expert on navigation. He was the founder of the North German Naval Observatory. Freeden Bank bears his name. Biography He ...

Gottlob Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (; ; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic phil ...

Gerhard Frey Gerhard Frey (; born 1 June 1944) is a German mathematician, known for his work in number theory. Following an original idea of Hellegouarch, he developed the notion of Frey–Hellegouarch curves, a construction of an elliptic curve from a pur ...

Robert Fricke Karl Emanuel Robert Fricke (24 September 1861 – 18 July 1930) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis, especially on elliptic, modular and automorphic functions. He was one of the main collaborators of Felix Kle ...

Robert Frucht Robert Wertheimer Frucht (later known as Roberto Frucht) (9 August 1906 – 26 June 1997) was a German-Chilean mathematician; his research specialty was graph theory and the symmetries of graphs. Education and career In 1908, Frucht's family mo ...

* Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs *

Joseph Furttenbach Joseph Furttenbach the Elder (30 December 1591 – 17 January 1667) was a German architect, mathematician, engineer and diarist. Biography Joseph Furttenbach was born in Leutkirch, Germany. From 1607/08 to 1620 he stayed in Italy (especiall ...

Philipp Furtwängler Friederich Pius Philipp Furtwängler (April 21, 1869 – May 19, 1940) was a German number theorist. Biography Furtwängler wrote an 1896 doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen on cubic forms (''Zur Theorie der in Linearfaktoren ze ...

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David Gans David Gans ( he, דָּוִד בֶּן שְׁלֹמֹה גנז; ‎1541–1613), also known as Rabbi Dovid Solomon Ganz, was a Jewish chronicler, mathematician, historian, astronomer and astrologer. He is the author of "Tzemach David" (1592 ...

Nina Gantert Nina Gantert is a Swiss and German probability theorist, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She holds the chair for probability in the department of mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, a position she has hel ...

* Harald Garcke *

Joachim von zur Gathen Joachim von zur Gathen (born 1950) is a German and computer scientist. His research spans several areas in mathematics and computer science, including Computational complexity theory, computational complexity, cryptography, finite fields, and com ...

Carl Friedrich Gauss Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (; german: Gauß ; la, Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Sometimes refer ...

Gerhard Geise Gerhard Paul Geise (2 January 1930, Stendal – 11 April 2010, Dresden) was a German mathematician and professor of pure mathematics. He died after a long serious illness in Dresden. Works (selection) * 1961: Über ähnlich-veränderliche ebene ...

* Heide Gluesing-Luerssen *

Johannes von Gmunden :''Johannes von Gmünd is also the name of a 14th-century architect, see Basel Münster.'' Johannes von Gmunden ( la, Johannes de Gamundia; c. 1380/84 – February 23, 1442) was a German/Austrian astronomer, mathematician, humanist and early in ...

Christian Goldbach Christian Goldbach (; ; 18 March 1690 – 20 November 1764) was a German mathematician connected with some important research mainly in number theory; he also studied law and took an interest in and a role in the Russian court. After traveling ...

Kurt Gödel Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( , ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel had an imme ...

Adolph Göpel Adolph Göpel (29 September 1812 – 7 June 1847) was a German mathematician who did the first paper on hyperelliptic functions and who introduced Göpel tetrads. Life and work His uncle was a diplomat so he attended his first mathematic ...

Rudolf Gorenflo Rudolf Gorenflo (31 July 1930 – 20 October 2017) was a German mathematician. Biography Gorenflo was born on July 31, 1930, in Friedrichstal, Germany. From 1950 to 1956 he attended Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from which he received his di ...

Lothar Göttsche Lothar Göttsche (born January 21, 1961 in Sonderburg, Denmark) is a German mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry. He is a research scientist at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. He is also ed ...

Hermann Grassmann Hermann Günther Grassmann (german: link=no, Graßmann, ; 15 April 1809 – 26 September 1877) was a German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, general scholar, and publisher. His mat ...

* Heinrich Friedrich Gretschel *

Michael Griebel Michael Griebel is a German mathematician. His research focus lies on scientific computing, and he helped develop computer algorithms for Sparse Grids. Griebel was director of the Institute for Numerical Simulation at the University of Bonn fro ...

Martin Grötschel Martin Grötschel (born 10 September 1948) is a German mathematician known for his research on combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, and operations research. From 1991 to 2012 he was Vice President of the Zuse Institute Berlin ( ...

Detlef Gromoll Detlef Gromoll (13 May 1938 – 31 May 2008) was a mathematician who worked in Differential geometry. Biography Gromoll was born in Berlin in 1938, and was a classically trained violinist. After living and attending school in Rosdorf and gra ...

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Wolfgang Hackbusch Wolfgang Hackbusch (born 24 October 1948 in Westerstede, Lower Saxony) is a German mathematician, known for his pioneering research in multigrid methods and later hierarchical matrices, a concept generalizing the fast multipole method. He was a p ...

Wolfgang Hahn Wolfgang Hahn (April 30, 1911 – January 10, 1998) was a German mathematician who worked on special functions, in particular orthogonal polynomials. He introduced Hahn polynomials, Hahn difference, Hahn q-addition (or Jackson-Hahn-Cigler q-add ...

* Rudolf Halin * Ursula Hamenstädt * Johannes Hancke * Wolfgang Händler *

Hermann Hankel Hermann Hankel (14 February 1839 – 29 August 1873) was a German mathematician. Having worked on mathematical analysis during his career, he is best known for introducing the Hankel transform and the Hankel matrix. Biography Hankel was born on 1 ...

Raphael Levi Hannover Raphael Levi Hannover (1685 – May 17, 1779) was a German Jewish mathematician and astronomer. The son of Jacob Joseph, Hannover was born at Weikersheim, Franconia in 1685. He was educated at the Jewish school of Hanover and at the yeshivah of Fr ...

Carl Gustav Axel Harnack Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (, Dorpat (now ) – 3 April 1888, Dresden) was a Baltic German mathematician who contributed to potential theory. Harnack's inequality applied to harmonic functions. He also worked on the real algebraic geometry of pla ...

* Paul Harzer *

Helmut Hasse Helmut Hasse (; 25 August 1898 – 26 December 1979) was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of ''p''-adic numbers to local class field theory and ...

Maria Hasse Maria-Viktoria Hasse (May 30, 1921 – January 10, 2014) was a German mathematician who became the first female professor in the faculty of mathematics and science at TU Dresden. She wrote books on set theory and category theory, and is known as on ...

Otto Hesse Ludwig Otto Hesse (22 April 1811 – 4 August 1874) was a German mathematician. Hesse was born in Königsberg, Prussia, and died in Munich, Bavaria. He worked mainly on algebraic invariants, and geometry. The Hessian matrix, the Hesse nor ...

Felix Hausdorff Felix Hausdorff ( , ; November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, and ...

Eduard Heine Heinrich Eduard Heine (16 March 1821 – 21 October 1881) was a German mathematician. Heine became known for results on special functions and in real analysis. In particular, he authored an important treatise on spherical harmonics and Legen ...

Dieter Held Dieter Held (born 1936 in Berlin) is a German mathematician.Mitgliederverzeichnis der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung e. V, 2007. He is known for discovering the Held group, one of the 26 sporadic finite simple group Finite is the opposite of ...

Kurt Hensel Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel (29 December 1861 – 1 June 1941) was a German mathematician born in Königsberg. Life and career Hensel was born in Königsberg, East Prussia (today Kaliningrad, Russia), the son of Julia (née von Adelson) and lan ...

* Ferdinand Ernst Karl Herberstein *

Maximilian Herzberger Maximilian Jacob Herzberger (7 or 17 Mar 1899, Berlin, Germany — 9 Apr 1982, New Orleans, United States)Edmund Hess Edmund Hess (17 February 1843 – 24 December 1903) was a German mathematician who discovered several regular polytopes. See also * Schläfli–Hess polychoron * Hess polytope References * ''Regular Polytopes In mathematics, a regu ...

Karl Hessenberg Karl Adolf Hessenberg (September 8, 1904 – February 22, 1959) was a German mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Education From 1925 to 1930 he studied electrical engineering at the Technische Hochschule ...

David Hilbert David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many a ...

Friedrich Hirzebruch Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as ...

Eberhard Hopf Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf (April 4, 1902 in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary – July 24, 1983 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA) was a mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who ...

Heinz Hopf Heinz Hopf (19 November 1894 – 3 June 1971) was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of topology and geometry. Early life and education Hopf was born in Gräbschen, Germany (now , part of Wrocław, Poland), the son of Elizabeth ( ...

* Jakob Horn * Günter Hotz * Annette Huber-Klawitter * Klaus Hulek *

Gerhard Hund Gerhard Friedrich Hund (born February 4, 1932 in Leipzig) is a German chess player, mathematician and computer scientist. Biography He is the oldest son of physicist Friedrich Hund (1896–1997). He studied at the Friedrich Schiller University ...

Adolf Hurwitz Adolf Hurwitz (; 26 March 1859 – 18 November 1919) was a German mathematician who worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. Early life He was born in Hildesheim, then part of the Kingdom of Hanover, to a Jewish family and died ...

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Ilse Ipsen Ilse Clara Franziska Ipsen is a German-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at North Carolina State University. She was formerly associate director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, a joint ...

Caspar Isenkrahe Mathias Caspar Hubert Isenkrahe (12 May 1844, in Titz, Müntz, Rhine Province – 12 August 1921, in Trier) was a German mathematician, physicist and Catholic Philosophy of nature, philosopher of nature. Life Isenkrahe's father died before Cas ...

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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (; ; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants, and number theory. His name is occasiona ...

Eugen Jahnke Paul Rudolf Eugen Jahnke (born November 30, 1861 in Berlin, died October 18, 1921 in Berlin) was a German mathematician. Jahnke studied mathematics and physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he graduated in 1886. In 1889 he received ...

Ferdinand Joachimsthal Ferdinand Joachimsthal was a German mathematician. He was born on March 9, 1818, at Goldberg (Złotoryja), Silesia and died on April 5, 1861, at Breslau (Wrocław). In the year of his graduation (Ph.D., Berlin, 1842) he was appointed teacher a ...

* Johann Lantz *

Philipp von Jolly Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly (26 September 1809 – 24 December 1884) was a German physicist and mathematician. Born in Mannheim as the son of merchant Louis Jolly and Marie Eleonore Jolly, he studied science in Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. A ...

Wilhelm Jordan Wilhelm Jordan may refer to: * Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan (1819–1904), known as Wilhelm Jordan, German writer and politician * Wilhelm Jordan (geodesist) (1842–1899), German scientist, noted for the Gauss–Jordan elimination algorithm {{hn ...

Jürgen Jost Jürgen Jost (born 9 June 1956) is a German mathematician specializing in geometry. He has been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig since 1996. Life and work In 1975, he began studying mathematics, ...

Joachim Jungius Joachim Jungius (born Joachim Junge; 22 October 1587 – 23 September 1657) was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science. Life Jungius was a native of Lübeck. He studied metaphysics at the Universities of Rostock and Giess ...

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Erich Kähler Erich Kähler (; 16 January 1906 – 31 May 2000) was a German mathematician with wide-ranging interests in geometry and mathematical physics, who laid important mathematical groundwork for algebraic geometry and for string theory. Education an ...

Margarete Kahn Margarethe Kahn (known as Grete Kahn, also Margarete Kahn, born 27 August 1880, missing after deportation to Piaski, Poland on 28 March 1942) was a German mathematician and Holocaust victim. She was among the first women to obtain a doctorate ...

* Gabriele Kaiser *

Theodor Kaluza Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza (; 9 November 1885 – 19 January 1954) was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza–Klein theory, involving field equations in five-dimensional space-time. His idea that fundamental forces can be ...

Erich Kamke Erich Kamke (18 August 1890 – 28 September 1961) was a German mathematician, who specialized in the theory of differential equations. Also, his book on set theory became a standard introduction to the field. Biography Kamke was born in Mari ...

* Ralph Kaufmann *

Julia Kempe Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the Center for Data Science at NYU and Professor at the Courant Institute Education and career Kempe was born in East Berlin, to a ...

Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (; ; 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws ...

Felix Klein Christian Felix Klein (; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the associations between geometry and group ...

* Alfred Kneschke *

Adolf Kneser Adolf Kneser (19 March 1862 – 24 January 1930) was a German mathematician. He was born in Grüssow, Mecklenburg, Germany and died in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). He is the father of the mathematician Hellmuth Kneser and the grand ...

Hellmuth Kneser Hellmuth Kneser (16 April 1898 – 23 August 1973) was a Baltic German mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology. His most famous result may be his theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for 3-manifold ...

Martin Kneser Martin Kneser (21 January 1928 – 16 February 2004) was a German mathematician. His father Hellmuth Kneser and grandfather Adolf Kneser were also mathematicians. He obtained his PhD in 1950 from Humboldt University of Berlin with the disser ...

Herbert Koch Herbert Koch (born 14 September 1962) is a German mathematician active in the field of partial differential equations. He occupies the position of a professor at the University of Bonn. Together with Daniel Tataru, he is known for his work on t ...

Karl-Rudolf Koch Karl-Rudolf Koch (born 30 July 1935) is a German geodesist and professor at the University of Bonn (FRG). In the global geodetic community, he is well known for his research work in geodetic statistics, particularly robust parameter estimation a ...

* Rudolf Kochendörffer *

Leo Königsberger Leo Königsberger (15 October 1837 – 15 December 1921) was a German mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject. In 20 ...

Gottfried Köthe Gottfried Maria Hugo Köthe (born 25 December 1905 in Graz – died 30 April 1989 in Frankfurt) was an Austrian mathematician working in abstract algebra and functional analysis. Scientific career In 1923 Köthe enrolled in the University of G ...

Ernst Kötter Ernst Kötter was a German mathematician. Education Kötter graduated in 1884 from the University of Berlin under the supervision of Karl Weierstrass and Leopold Kronecker. Career Kötter's treatise ''"Fundamentals of a purely geometrical theor ...

Gerhard Kowalewski Gerhard Kowalewski (27 March 1876 – 21 February 1950) was a German mathematician and member of the Nazi party who introduced the matrices notation. Early life Waldemar Hermann Gerhard Kowalewski was born March 27, 1876, in Alt Järshagen in P ...

Leopold Kronecker Leopold Kronecker (; 7 December 1823 – 29 December 1891) was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, algebra and logic. He criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory, and was quoted by as having said, "'" ("God made the integers, ...

Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger (21 September 1857 – 1 June 1923) was a German mathematician and surveyor/geodesist Geodesy ( ) is the Earth science of accurately measuring and understanding Earth's figure (geometric shape and size), orient ...

* Ulrich Kulisch

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Georg Landsberg Georg Landsberg (January 30, 1865 – September 14, 1912) was a German mathematician, known for his work in the theory of algebraic functions and on the Riemann–Roch theorem.. The Takagi–Landsberg curve, a fractal that is the graph of a nowh ...

Karl Christian von Langsdorf Karl Christian von Langsdorf, also known as Carl Christian von Langsdorff (18 May 1757 in Bad Nauheim, Nauheim – 10 June 1834 in Heidelberg), was a German mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer. Life Langsdorf was the son of ...

Wilhelm Leber Wilhelm Leber (born July 20, 1947) is a German mathematician and formerly chief apostle in the New Apostolic Church. Life Wilhelm Leber was born in Herford in Westphalia. In 1975 he earned his doctorate in mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathema ...

Kurt Leichtweiss Kurt Leichtweiß (March 2, 1927 in Villingen-Schwenningen – June 23, 2013) was a mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry. In 1944, while still in high school Leichtweiß traveled to the Oberwolfach Research Institute for ...

* Wolfgang Leinberer *

Thomas Lengauer Thomas Lengauer (born 12 November 1952) is a German computer scientist and computational biologist. Education Lengauer studied Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, earning his Diploma in 1975 and a Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to a PhD) i ...

Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt (22 August 1927 – 28 July 2011) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic number theory. Leopoldt earned his Ph.D. in 1954 at the University of Hamburg under Helmut Hasse with the thesis ''Über Einheitengr ...

Jacob Leupold Jacob Leupold (22 July 1674 – 12 January 1727) was a German physicist, mathematician, instrument maker, mining commissioner and engineer. He wrote the seminal book ''Theatrum Machinarum Generale'' ("The General Theory of Machines"). Early lif ...

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 (pi) is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root of any polynomial with rational coefficien ...

Rudolf Lipschitz Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (14 May 1832 – 7 October 1903) was a German mathematician who made contributions to mathematical analysis (where he gave his name to the Lipschitz continuity condition) and differential geometry, as well as numbe ...

* Peter Littelmann *

Martin Löb Martin Hugo Löb (; 31 March 1921 – 21 August 2006) was a German mathematician. He settled in the United Kingdom after the Second World War and specialised in mathematical logic. He moved to the Netherlands in the 1970s, where he remained in r ...

Alfred Loewy Alfred Loewy (20 June 1873 – 25 January 1935) was a German mathematician who worked on representation theory. Loewy rings, Loewy length, Loewy decomposition and Loewy series are named after him. His graduate students included Wolfgang Krull ...

Paul Lorenzen Paul Lorenzen (March 24, 1915 – October 1, 1994) was a German philosopher and mathematician, founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz). Biography Lorenzen studied at the University ...

Leopold Löwenheim Leopold Löwenheim �le:o:pɔl̩d ˈlø:vɛnhaɪm(26 June 1878 in Krefeld – 5 May 1957 in Berlin) was a German mathematician doing work in mathematical logic. The Nazi regime forced him to retire because under the Nuremberg Laws he was considere ...

* Yuri Luchko *

Wolfgang Lück Wolfgang Lück (born 19 February 1957 in Herford) is a German mathematician who is an internationally recognized expert in algebraic topology. Life and work After receiving his '' Abitur'' from the Ravensberger Gymnasium in Herford in 1975, ...

* Stephan Luckhaus *

Günter Lumer Günter Lumer (1929–2005) was a mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. He is the namesake of the Lumer–Phillips theorem on semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and was the first to study L-semi-inner products. Born in ...

Jacob Lüroth Jacob Lüroth (18 February 1844, Mannheim, Germany – 14 September 1910, Munich, Germany) was a German mathematician who proved Lüroth's theorem and introduced Lüroth quartics. His name is sometimes written Lueroth, following the common pri ...

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Michael Maestlin Michael Maestlin (also Mästlin, Möstlin, or Moestlin) (30 September 1550 – 26 October 1631) was a German astronomer and mathematician, known for being the mentor of Johannes Kepler. He was a student of Philipp Apian and was known as the tea ...

* Paul Mahlo *

Helmut Maier Helmut Maier (born 17 October 1953) is a German mathematician and professor at the University of Ulm, Germany. He is known for his contributions in analytic number theory and mathematical analysis and particularly for the so-called Maier's matrix ...

Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854 in Weimar– 1925 in Danzig) was a German mathematician who contributed to the solution of the prime number theorem. Biography Mangoldt completed his Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D) in 1878 at the Universit ...

Yuri Manin Yuri Ivanovich Manin (russian: Ю́рий Ива́нович Ма́нин; born 16 February 1937) is a Russian mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logi ...

Jens Marklof Jens Marklof FRS is a German mathematician working in the areas of quantum chaos, dynamical systems, equidistribution, modular forms and number theory. He will be president of the London Mathematical Society in the period 2023-2024. Marklof i ...

* Johannes Marquart *

Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer (15 February 1839 – 11 April 1908) was a German mathematician. Mayer was born on February 15, 1839 in Leipzig, Germany. His father was a businessman from Leipzig. He studied at the University of Leipzig, Universi ...

Johann Tobias Mayer Johann Tobias Mayer (5 May 1752 – 30 November 1830) was a German physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. ''Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre zum Behuf der Vorlesungen über die Experimental-Physik'', ...

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher o ...

Gustav Ferdinand Mehler Gustav Ferdinand Mehler, or Ferdinand Gustav Mehler (13 December 1835, in Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia – 13 July 1895, in Elbing, German Empire) was a German mathematician. He is credited with introducing Mehler's formula The Mehler kern ...

Ludwig Mehlhorn Ludwig Mehlhorn (5 January 1950 in Bernsbach – 3 May 2011 in Berlin) was a German mathematician. ---- 1950 births 2011 deaths Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century G ...

Nicholas Mercator Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator (c. 1620, Holstein – 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician. He was born in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and educated at Rostock and Leyden after which h ...

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 Wielkopolska, Poland) and died in Vienna, Austria. Th ...

Uta Merzbach Uta Caecilia Merzbach (February 9, 1933 – June 27, 2017) was a German-American historian of mathematics who became the first curator of mathematical instruments at the Smithsonian Institution. Early life Merzbach was born in Berlin, where her m ...

* Richard Meyer *

Preda Mihăilescu Preda V. Mihăilescu (born 23 May 1955) is a Romanian mathematician, best known for his proof of the 158-year-old Catalan's conjecture. Biography Born in Bucharest,Stewart 2013 he is the brother of Vintilă Mihăilescu. After leaving Romania in ...

Hermann Minkowski Hermann Minkowski (; ; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number t ...

Otfrid Mittmann Otfrid Mittmann (27 December 1908 in Ruda Śląska — 1998)Record
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August Ferdinand Möbius August Ferdinand Möbius (, ; ; 17 November 1790 – 26 September 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. Early life and education Möbius was born in Schulpforta, Electorate of Saxony, and was descended on his ...

* Arnold Möller *

Karl Mollweide Karl Brandan Mollweide (3 February 1774 – 10 March 1825) was a German mathematician and astronomer who taught in Halle and Leipzig. In trigonometry, he discovered the formula known as Mollweide's formula. He invented a map projection call ...

* Robert Edouard Moritz *

Jürgen Moser Jürgen Kurt Moser (July 4, 1928 – December 17, 1999) was a German-American mathematician, honored for work spanning over four decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. Life Moser's mother Ilse Strehl ...

Ruth Moufang Ruth Moufang (10 January 1905 – 26 November 1977) was a German mathematician. Biography Born to German chemist Eduard Moufang and Else Fecht Moufang. Eduard Moufang was the son of Friedrich Carl Moufang (1848-1885) from Mainz, and Elisab ...

* John Müller * Stefan Müller * Werner Müller *

Herman Müntz 250px (Chaim) Herman Müntz (28 August 1884, in Łódź – 17 April 1956, in Sweden) was a German mathematician, now remembered for the Müntz approximation theorem. Biography He was born in Łódź (then in the Piotrków Governorate of the ...

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Valentin Naboth Valentin Naboth (also spelled ''Valentine Naibod'' or ''Nabod'') (13 February 1523 – 3 March 1593), known by the latinized name Valentinus Nabodus, was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Life and academic career Valentin Na ...

* Frank Natterer * Gabriele Nebe *

Leonard Nelson Leonard Nelson (; ; 11 July 1882 – 29 October 1927), sometimes spelt Leonhard, was a German mathematician, critical philosopher, and socialist. He was part of the neo-Friesian school (named after post-Kantian philosopher Jakob Friedrich Fr ...

Eugen Netto Eugen Otto Erwin Netto (30 June 1848 – 13 May 1919) was a German mathematician. He was born in Halle and died in Giessen. Netto's theorem, on the dimension-preserving properties of continuous bijections, is named for Netto. Netto published ...

Jürgen Neukirch Jürgen Neukirch (24 July 1937 – 5 February 1997) was a German mathematician known for his work on algebraic number theory. Education and career Neukirch received his diploma in mathematics in 1964 from the University of Bonn. For his Ph.D. t ...

* Carl Neumann *

Hanna Neumann Johanna (Hanna) Neumann (née von Caemmerer; 12 February 1914 – 14 November 1971) was a German-born mathematician who worked on group theory. Biography Neumann was born on 12 February 1914 in Lankwitz, Steglitz-Zehlendorf (today a distr ...

Walter Neumann Walter David Neumann (born 1 January 1946) is a British mathematician who works in topology, geometric group theory, and singularity theory. He is an emeritus professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. Neumann obtained his Ph.D. under the ...

* Mara Neusel *

Nicholas of Cusa Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus (), was a German Catholic cardinal, philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer. One of the first German proponents of Renai ...

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* Moritz Pasch * Heinz-Otto Peitgen * Rose Peltesohn * Oskar Perron * Fritz Peter * Stefanie Petermichl * Hans Petersson * Carl Adam Petri * Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff * Michael Pfannkuche * Albrecht Pfister (mathematician), Albrecht Pfister * Adolf Piltz * Julius Plücker * Leo August Pochhammer * Burkard Polster * Johannes Praetorius * William Prager * Alfred Pringsheim * Heinz Prüfer * Friedrich Prym

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* Rodolphe Radau * Thomas von Randow * Michael Rapoport * Regiomontanus * Karin Reich * Julius Reichelt * Hermann of Reichenau * Kurt Reidemeister * Christian Reiher * Nicolaus Reimers * Erasmus Reinhold * Michel Reiss * Eric Reissner * Robert Remak (mathematician), Roberet Remak * Reinhold Remmert * Lasse Rempe-Gillen * Theodor Reye * Hans-Egon Richert * Michael M. Richter * Bernhard Riemann * Adam Ries * Willi Rinow * Abraham Robinson * Michael Röckner * Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski * Karl Rohn * Helmut Röhrl * Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg * Johann Georg Rosenhain * Arthur Rosenthal * Markus Rost * Heinrich August Rothe * Thomas Royen * Ferdinand Rudio * Christoph Rudolff * Carl David Tolmé Runge * Iris Runge

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* Hans Samelson * Björn Sandstede * Lisa Sauermann * Mathias Schacht * Helmut H. Schaefer * Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke * Paul Schatz * Ludwig Scheeffer * Arnd Scheel * Georg Scheffers * Adolf Schepp * Heinrich Scherk * Otto Schilling * Victor Schlegel * Ludwig Schlesinger * Oscar Schlömilch * Wilfried Schmid * Friedrich Karl Schmidt * Gunther Schmidt * Theodor Schneider * Claus P. Schnorr * Eckehard Schöll * Arnold Scholz * Heinrich Scholz * Peter Scholze * Johannes Schöner * Arnold Schönhage * Erich Schönhardt * Gaspar Schott * Martin Schottenloher * Hieronymus Schreiber * Ernst Schröder (mathematician), Ernst Schröder * Heinrich G. F. Schröder * Heinrich Schröter * Karl Schröter * Hermann Schubert * Horst Schubert * Johann Friedrich Schultz * Friedrich Schur * Issai Schur * Edmund Schuster * Christof Schütte * Kurt Schütte * Hermann Schwarz * Daniel Schwenter * Hans Schwerdtfeger * Christoph Scriba * Paul Scriptoris * Karl Seebach * Paul Seidel * Philipp Ludwig von Seidel * Wladimir Seidel * Herbert Seifert * Reinhard Selten * Bernd Siebert * Carl Ludwig Siegel * Max Simon (mathematician), Max Simon * Peter Slodowy * Hans Sommer (composer), Hans Sommer * Wilhelm Specht * Emanuel Sperner * Theodor Spieker * Herbert Spohn * Roland Sprague * Ludwig Staiger * Simon von Stampfer * Angelika Steger * Karl Stein (mathematician), Karl Stein * Carl August von Steinheil * Ernst Steinitz * Moritz Abraham Stern * Michael Stifel * Johannes Stöffler * Josef Stoer * Uwe Storch * Volker Strassen * Reinhold Strassmann * Aegidius Strauch II * Karl Strehl * Thomas Streicher * Catharina Stroppel * Michael Struwe * Eduard Study * Ulrich Stuhler * Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm * Johann Sturm * Karl-Theodor Sturm * Bernd Sturmfels * Wilhelm Süss * John M. Sullivan (mathematician), John M. Sullivan

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* Rosalind Tanner * Georg Tannstetter * Oswald Teichmüller * Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut * Carl Johannes Thomae * Gerhard Thomsen * William Threlfall * Ulrike Tillmann * Heinrich Emil Timerding * Otto Toeplitz * Johann Georg Tralles * Abdias Treu * Walter Trump * Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus * Reidun Twarock * Dietrich Tzwyvel * Nicolas Guisnée

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* Klaus Wagner * Manfred Wagner * Friedhelm Waldhausen * Marion Walter * Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin * Eduard Ritter von Weber * Heinrich Martin Weber * Werner Weber (mathematician), Werner Weber * Katrin Wehrheim * Dieter Weichert * Joachim Weickert * Karl Weierstrass * Erhard Weigel * Julius Weingarten * Michael Weiss (mathematician), Michael Weiss * Paul Weiss (mathematician), Paul Weiss * Ernst August Weiß * Katrin Wendland * Elisabeth M. Werner * Johannes Werner * Hermann Weyl * Johannes Widmann * Arthur Wieferich * Helmut Wielandt * Anna Wienhard * Hermann Wilken * Rudolf Wille * Thomas Willwacher * Ernst Eduard Wiltheiss * Ernst Witt * Alexander Witting * Franz Woepcke * Barbara Wohlmuth * Paul Wolfskehl * Hans Wussing * Peter Wynn (mathematician), Peter Wynn

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