This is a List of German mathematicians.

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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 th ...

* Wilhelm Ahrens *

Oskar Anderson Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson (russian: Оскар Николаевич Андерсон, translit=Oskar Nikolaevič Anderson; ] – 12 February 1960) was a Russian-German mathematician of Baltic German descent. He is best known for his work on mat ...

* Karl Apfelbacher * Philipp Apian * Petrus Apianus * Michael Artin * Günter Asser *

Bruno Augenstein Bruno Wilhelm Augenstein (March 16, 1923 – July 6, 2005) was a German-born American mathematician and physicist who made important contributions in space technology, ballistic missile research, satellites, antimatter, and many other areas. ...

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 Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained ...

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 * Christian Bär *

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* Friedrich L. Bauer *

August Beer August Beer (; 31 July 1825 – 18 November 1863) was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician of Jewish descent. Biography Beer was born in Trier, where he studied mathematics and natural sciences. Beer was educated at the technical s ...

* Walter Benz *

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 Mathematic ...

Felix Bernstein Felix Bernstein may refer to: *Felix Bernstein (mathematician) (1878–1956), German mathematician *Felix Bernstein (artist) Felix Bernstein (born May 20, 1992) is a performance artist, video artist, writer, and cultural critic. Bernstein was bo ...

* Ludwig Berwald * Friedrich Bessel * Karl Bobek * Friedrich Böhm *

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 influen ...

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 gr ...

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 wh ...

Andreas Brandstädt Andreas Brandstädt (born 17 January 1949 in Arnstadt, East Germany) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. Life and work He graduated from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, with a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in stochastic ...

Heinrich Brandt Heinrich Brandt (8 November 1886, in Feudingen – 9 October 1954, in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt) was a German mathematician who was the first to develop the concept of a groupoid. Brandt studied at the University of Göttingen and, from 1910 to 1913, ...

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 * Alexander von Brill * Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix * Max Brückner *

Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff Bruno Baron von Freytag-Löringhoff (11 June 1912–28 February 1996) was a German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist. He was also a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. During World War II, Freytag-Löringhoff work ...

* Heinrich Bruns * Roland Bulirsch * Johann Karl Burckhardt * Heinrich Burkhardt * Hans Heinrich Bürmann

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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. Prior ...

* Ludolph van Ceulen *

Otfried Cheong Otfried Cheong (formerly Otfried Schwarzkopf) is a German computational geometer working in South Korea at KAIST. He is known as one of the authors of the widely used computational geometry textbook ''Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applica ...

David Christiani David Christiani (25 December 1610 – 13 February 1688) was a German mathematician, philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , transli ...

* Christopher Clavius *

Stephan Cohn-Vossen Stefan Cohn-Vossen (28 May 1902 – 25 June 1936) was a mathematician, who was responsible for Cohn-Vossen's inequality and the Cohn-Vossen transformation is also named for him. He proved the first version of the splitting theorem. He was al ...

* Paul Cohn * Armin B. Cremers * Peter Crüger

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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 Herbert Julius von Denffer (born 4 June 1907, date of death unknown) was a German actuarial mathematician. He was born in Narva, Estonia. During World War II, Denffer worked as a cryptanalyst in Referat F, the Mathematical Referat, as part o ...

* Christopher Deninger *

Otto Dersch Otto Georg Dersch (born March 17, 1848, in Ortenberg, Hesse) was a German mathematician who worked in algebraic geometry. Dersch got his Ph.D. 1873 in Gießen. He was teacher in Groß-Umstadt and Darmstadt and then director of a secondary school ...

* Max Deuring *

Anton Deusing Anton Deusing, in Latin Antonius Deusingius (October 15, 1612 – January 30, 1666) was a German physician, mathematician, and astronomer.Joseph Thomas, Il Dizionario Universale di biografia e della mitologia 2009 CLU-HYS, Vol. II, Deusing Antonpa ...

* Wolfgang Doeblin *

Gustav Doetsch Gustav Doetsch (29 November 1892 – 9 June 1977) was a German mathematician, aviation researcher, decorated war veteran, and Nazi supporter. Early life Doetsch was born into a strict Catholic family on 29 November 1892 in Cologne.

* Andreas Dress

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* Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus * Carl Gottlieb Ehler * Martin Eichler *

Lorentz Eichstadt Lorentz Eichstadt (10 August 1596 – 8 June 1660) was a German mathematician and astronomer. He was a doctor of medicine in Szczecin in Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a hi ...

* Bettina Eick *

Kirsten Eisenträger Anne Kirsten Eisenträger is a professor of mathematics at The Pennsylvania State University, known for her research on computational number theory, Hilbert's tenth problem, and applications in cryptography. Eisenträger earned a ''Vordiplom'' in ...

* Joachim Engel * Karin Erdmann *

Andreas von Ettingshausen Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen (25 November 1796 – 25 May 1878) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. Biography Ettingshausen studied philosophy and jurisprudence at the University of Vienna. In 1817, he joined the University of Vi ...

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* Johann Faulhaber *

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 inspir ...

Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov (born 16 December 1972, in Tomsk, Russia) is a Russian-German mathematician. He works in the field of Applied and Combinatorial Topology, where he publishes under the name ''Dmitry N. Kozlov''. Biography Feichtner-Kozlov ...

Käte Fenchel Käte Fenchel née Käte Sperling (21 December 1905 – 19 December 1983) was a German-born Jewish mathematician, best known for her work on non-abelian groups. Life Käte was born in Berlin to a newspaper reporter and a bookkeeper, Rusza ...

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 a ...

Felix Finster Felix Finster (born 6 August 1967, in Mannheim) is a German mathematician working on problems in mathematical physics, geometry and analysis. Life and work Finster studied physics and mathematics at Heidelberg University, where he graduated in 19 ...

* Bernd Fischer *

Hans Fitting Hans Fitting (13 November 1906 in München-Gladbach (now Mönchengladbach) – 15 June 1938 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad)) was a mathematician who worked in group theory. He proved Fitting's theorem and Fitting's lemma, and defined the Fitting ...

* Andreas Floer * W. Frahm * Wilhelm von Freeden *

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 ph ...

* Gerhard Frey * Robert Fricke * Robert Frucht *

Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs (May 19, 1915, Munich – February 24, 1997) was a British mathematician specializing in complex analysis. His main area of research was Nevanlinna theory. Fuchs received his Ph.D. in 1941 from the University of C ...

* Joseph Furttenbach * Philipp Furtwängler

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* David Gans * Nina Gantert * Harald Garcke * Joachim von zur Gathen *

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 refe ...

* Gerhard Geise *

Heide Gluesing-Luerssen Heide Gluesing-Luerssen (born 1961) is a German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory. She is currently the Royster Research Professor at University of Kentucky. Education and career Gluesing-Luerssen earned her doctorate in 1991 f ...

* Johannes von Gmunden *

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 imm ...

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 mathematica ...

* Rudolf Gorenflo * Lothar Göttsche *

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 Heinrich Friedrich Gretschel (21 October 1830, Prietitz near Elstra, Germany – 2 February 1892, Freiburg, Switzerland) was a German mathematician and scientist. In 1847, Gretschel became a student at the Technischen Bildungsanstalt (now TU Dres ...

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 ...

* Martin Grötschel * Detlef Gromoll

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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 wa ...

* Wolfgang Hahn *

Rudolf Halin Rudolf Halin (February 3, 1934 – November 14, 2014) was a German graph theory, graph theorist, known for defining the End (graph theory), ends of infinite graphs, for Halin's grid theorem, for extending Menger's theorem to infinite graphs, and fo ...

* Ursula Hamenstädt *

Johannes Hancke Johannes Hancke (also Jan Hancke; Joannes Hancke; 2 February 1644 – 24 August 1713) was a German Jesuit theology professor and mathematician. John Hancke was born in Neisse, and joined the Jesuit order in 1664. After his novitiate in Brno ...

Wolfgang Händler Wolfgang Händler (11 December 1920 in Potsdam – 19 February 1998) was a German mathematician, pioneering computer scientist and professor at Leibniz University Hannover (''Lehrstuhl für elektronische Rechenanlagen'') and University of Erlan ...

* Hermann Hankel * Raphael Levi Hannover * Carl Gustav Axel Harnack *

Paul Harzer Paul Harzer (1857, Großenhain – 1932) was a German mathematician and astronomer best known for his papers arguing with Albert Einstein regarding the Sagnac effect and its relationship to Special Relativity. Harzer was Professor of Astronomy at ...

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 a ...

* Maria Hasse * Otto Hesse *

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 Le ...

* Dieter Held * Kurt Hensel * Ferdinand Ernst Karl Herberstein * Maximilian Herzberger * Edmund Hess * Karl Hessenberg * David Hilbert * Friedrich Hirzebruch * Eberhard Hopf * Heinz Hopf * Jakob Horn *

Günter Hotz Günter Hotz (born 16 November 1931) is a German pioneer of computer science. His work includes formal languages, digital circuits and computational complexity theory. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschu ...

Annette Huber-Klawitter Annette Huber-Klawitter (née Huber, born 23 May 1967) is a German mathematician at the University of Freiburg. Her research interests includes algebraic geometry, in particular the Bloch–Kato conjectures. A native of Frankfurt am Main, Huber- ...

Klaus Hulek Klaus Hulek (born 19 August 1952 in Hindelang) is a German mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry and in particular, his work on moduli spaces. Life Klaus Hulek studied Mathematics from 1971 at Ludwig Maximilian University ...

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 * Caspar Isenkrahe

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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 occasio ...

* Eugen Jahnke * Ferdinand Joachimsthal * 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 * Jürgen Jost * Joachim Jungius

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* Erich Kähler * Margarete Kahn *

Gabriele Kaiser Gabriele Kaiser is a German mathematics educator. She is a professor of mathematics education at the University of Hamburg. Kaiser completed a doctorate in 1986 and a habilitation in 1997 at the University of Kassel. Her doctoral dissertation, '' ...

* Theodor Kaluza * Erich Kamke *

Ralph Kaufmann Ralph Martin Kaufmann (born August 4, 1969) is a German mathematician working in the United States. Career Kaufmann studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn. He obtained a master's degree in Physics in 1994 under t ...

* Julia Kempe * Johannes Kepler *

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 grou ...

Alfred Kneschke Alfred Emil Richard Kneschke (15 June 1902 in Altlöbau – 24 November 1979 in Freiberg) was a German mathematician, engineer and university lecturer. During the World War II, Kneschke managed the Referat IV, Section II of the Wehrmacht Signa ...

* Adolf Kneser *

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-mani ...

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 disse ...

* Herbert Koch *

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 estimatio ...

Rudolf Kochendörffer Rudolf Paul Joachim Kochendörffer (21 November 1911 in Pankow – 23 August 1980 in Dortmund) was a German mathematician who was a Professor of mathematics in the University of Rostock specialising in algebra, Group theory and theory ...

* Leo Königsberger *

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 ...

* Ernst Kötter *

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 ...

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 * 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 In mathematics, a f ...

* Karl Christian von Langsdorf * Wilhelm Leber *

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 mat ...

* Kurt Leichtweiss *

Wolfgang Leinberer Wolfgang Leinberer (Stuttgart, – Altötting, ) was a priest in the Society of Jesus. He was German astronomer, philosopher, mathematician and professor, considered as "the most enthusiastic, even ingenious disciple in Rome of the famous mathe ...

* Thomas Lengauer * Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt * Jacob Leupold *

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 coef ...

* Rudolf Lipschitz *

Peter Littelmann Peter Littelmann (born 10 December 1957) is a German mathematician at the University of Cologne working on algebraic groups and representation theory, who introduced the Littelmann path model and used it to solve several conjectures in standard m ...

* Martin Löb * Alfred Loewy * Paul Lorenzen *

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 Yuri Luchko is a German professor of mathematics at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology. His 90 works were peer-reviewed and appeared in such journals as the ''Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis ''Fractional Calculus a ...

* Wolfgang Lück *

Stephan Luckhaus Stephan Luckhaus is a German mathematician who is a professor at the University of Leipzig working in pure and applied analysis.Günter Lumer * Jacob Lüroth

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* Michael Maestlin * 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 matr ...

* Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt * Yuri Manin * Jens Marklof *

Johannes Marquart Johannes Anton Marquart (born 27 September 1909 in Erolzheim in Germany)TICOM: ''Preliminary Interrogation Report on former Regierungsbaurat Johannes Marquart of OKH/Gen d NA.'' Report I-20PDF; 2,8 MB 22. May 1947. was a Germa ...

* Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer * Johann Tobias Mayer *

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 taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His w ...

* Gustav Ferdinand Mehler * Ludwig Mehlhorn * Nicholas Mercator * Franz Mertens *

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 ...

Richard Meyer Richard Meyer may refer to: * Richard Meyer (composer) (born 1957), American composer, teacher, and strings editor * Richard Meyer (academic) (born 1966), writer and professor of art history at Stanford University * Richard Meyer (Fatal Fury), a cha ...

* Preda Mihăilescu *

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 numb ...

* Otfrid Mittmann *

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 ...

Arnold Möller Arnold Möller (4 May 1581 – 14 October 1655), was a German calligrapher. Biography Möller was a 17th-century German writing and arithmetic teacher who worked as a calligrapher in Lübeck. His publications were still reissued in the 18th c ...

* Karl Mollweide *

Robert Edouard Moritz Robert Edouard Moritz (2 Jun 1868 – 28 Dec 1940) was a German-American mathematician. He published about 75 books and papers. For over 30 years he was head of the mathematics department at the University of Washington. Biography Moritz was bor ...

* Jürgen Moser * Ruth Moufang *

John Müller John Muller (1699 – June 1784) was a mathematician and engineer from the Holy Roman Empire. Life Born Johann Müller in the Holy Roman Empire, he moved to London in 1736. In 1741 he was appointed deputy head of the Royal Military Academy, ...

* Stefan Müller *

Werner Müller Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Ra ...

* Herman Müntz

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* Valentin Naboth *

Frank Natterer Frank Natterer (20 July 1941) is a German mathematician. He was born in Wangen im Allgäu, Germany. Natterer pioneered and shaped the field of mathematical methods in imaging including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) a ...

Gabriele Nebe Gabriele Nebe (born 1967) is a German mathematician with contributions in the theory of lattices, modular forms, spherical designs, and error-correcting codes. With Neil Sloane, she maintains the Online Catalogue of Lattices. She is a professor ...

* Leonard Nelson *

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 publishe ...

* Jürgen Neukirch *

Carl Neumann Carl Gottfried Neumann (also Karl; 7 May 1832 – 27 March 1925) was a German mathematician. Biography Neumann was born in Königsberg, Prussia, as the son of the mineralogist, physicist and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann (1798–1895), who ...

* Hanna Neumann * Walter Neumann *

Mara Neusel Mara Dicle Neusel (May 14, 1964 – September 5, 2014) was a mathematician, author, teacher and an advocate for women in mathematics. The focus of her mathematical work was on invariant theory, which can be briefly described as the study of Group ...

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 Ren ...

Carsten Niebuhr Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr (17 March 1733 Lüdingworth – 26 April 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen), was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark. He is renowned for his participation in the Royal Danis ...

* Hans-Volker Niemeier *

Barbara Niethammer Barbara Niethammer (born 1967) is a German mathematician and materials scientist who works as a professor at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at the University of Bonn.

* Joachim Nitsche *

Georg Nöbeling Georg August Nöbeling (12 November 1907 – 16 February 2008) was a German mathematician. Education and career Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics at University of Göttingen between 1927 and 1929 an ...

Emmy Noether Amalie Emmy Noether Emmy is the ''Rufname'', the second of two official given names, intended for daily use. Cf. for example the résumé submitted by Noether to Erlangen University in 1907 (Erlangen University archive, ''Promotionsakt Emmy Noeth ...

* Fritz Noether *

Max Noether Max Noether (24 September 1844 – 13 December 1921) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the ...

* Frieda Nugel

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Adam Olearius Adam Olearius (born Adam Ölschläger or Oehlschlaeger, 24 September 159922 February 1671) was a German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian. He became secretary to the ambassador sent by Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, to ...

* Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt * Volker Oppitz * Felix Otto

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* Moritz Pasch * Heinz-Otto Peitgen * Rose Peltesohn * Oskar Perron * Fritz Peter *

Stefanie Petermichl Stefanie Petermichl (born 1971) is a German mathematical analysis, mathematical analyst who works as a professor at the University of Toulouse, in France.

* Hans Petersson * Carl Adam Petri *

Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff (5 December 1774 – 26 June 1835), was professor of pure and applied mathematics successively at Dorpat, Nuremberg, Würzburg and Erlangen. He was a brother of Johann Friedrich Pfaff Johann Friedrich Pfaff (sometimes ...

* Michael Pfannkuche *

Albrecht Pfister Albrecht Pfister (c. 1420 – c. 1466) was one of the first European printers to use movable type, following its invention by Johannes Gutenberg. Working in Bamberg, Germany, he is believed to have been responsible for two innovations in the us ...

* Adolf Piltz *

Julius Plücker Julius Plücker (16 June 1801 – 22 May 1868) was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the di ...

* Leo August Pochhammer *

Burkard Polster Burkard Polster (born 26 February 1965 in Würzburg) is a German mathematician who runs and presents the ''Mathologer'' channel on YouTube. Polster earned a doctorate from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 1993 under the supervision of K ...

Johannes Praetorius Johannes Praetorius or Johann Richter (1537 – 27 October 1616) was a Bohemian German mathematician and astronomer. Life Praetorius was born in Jáchymov, Bohemia. From 1557 he studied at the University of Wittenberg, and from 1562 to 156 ...

* William Prager *

Alfred Pringsheim Alfred Pringsheim (2 September 1850 – 25 June 1941) was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia (now Oława, Poland) and died in Zürich, Switzerland. Family and academic career Pringsheim came ...

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* Rodolphe Radau * Thomas von Randow * Michael Rapoport *

Regiomontanus Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476), better known as Regiomontanus (), was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental ...

Karin Reich Karin Anna Reich is a German historian of mathematics. Career From 1967 to 1973 Reich was a scientific assistant at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the Institute for the History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at ...

* Julius Reichelt *

Hermann of Reichenau Blessed Hermann of Reichenau (18 July 1013– 24 September 1054), also known by other names, was an 11th-century Benedictine monk and scholar. He composed works on history, music theory, mathematics, and astronomy, as well as many hymns. H ...

* Kurt Reidemeister * Christian Reiher * Nicolaus Reimers *

Erasmus Reinhold Erasmus Reinhold (22 October 1511 – 19 February 1553) was a German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation. He was born and died in Saalfeld, Saxony. He was educated, und ...

Michel Reiss Michel Reiss (23 July 1805 in Frankfurt – 27 January 1869 in Frankfurt) was a German mathematician who introduced the Reiss relation. References * Biography in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, germa ...

* Eric Reissner * Roberet Remak * Reinhold Remmert * Lasse Rempe-Gillen * Theodor Reye * Hans-Egon Richert * Michael M. Richter * Bernhard Riemann * Adam Ries *

Willi Rinow Willi Ludwig August Rinow (February 28th, 1907 in Berlin – March 29th, 1979 in Greifswald) was a German mathematician who specialized in differential geometry and topology. Rinow was the son of a schoolteacher. In 1926, he attended the Humbol ...

Abraham Robinson Abraham Robinson (born Robinsohn; October 6, 1918 – April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of nonstandard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorp ...

Michael Röckner Michael Röckner is a mathematician working in the fields of Stochastic analysis and Mathematical Physics. He obtained his PhD at the University of Bielefeld in 1984 under the supervision of Sergio Albeverio Sergio Albeverio (born 17 January ...

* 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 Iris Anna Runge (1 June 1888 – 27 January 1966) was a German applied mathematician and physicist. Life and work Iris Runge was the eldest of six children of mathematician Carl Runge. She started studying physics, mathematics, and geography ...

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Hans Samelson Hans Samelson (3 March 1916 – 22 September 2005) was a German-American mathematician who worked in differential geometry, topology and the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras—important in describing the symmetry of analytical structures. C ...

Björn Sandstede Björn Sandstede is a German applied mathematician. He is currently the Alumni-Alumnae University Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, where he serves as chair of the department. Sandstede earned his Dr. rer. nat. in 1993 from t ...

* Lisa Sauermann *

Mathias Schacht Mathias Schacht (born 1977) is a German mathematician who specializes in graph theory.. Schacht earned a diploma in business mathematics in 1999 from the Technical University of Berlin. He did his graduate studies at Emory University, completing ...

Helmut H. Schaefer Helmut Heinrich Schaefer (February 14, 1925 in Großenhain, Weimar Republic – December 16, 2005 in Tübingen, Germany) was a German mathematician, who worked primarily in functional analysis. His two best known scientific monographs are titl ...

* Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke * Paul Schatz *

Ludwig Scheeffer Karl Ludwig Scheeffer (born 1 June 1859 in Königsberg;Vita n Latinin his Ph.D. thesis, died 11 June 1885 in Munich) was a German mathematician and university teacher.''Ludwig Scheeffer'' (obituary by Georg Cantor), in: ''Bibliotheca mathematica ...

* Arnd Scheel * Georg Scheffers * Adolf Schepp *

Heinrich Scherk Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (27 October 1798 – 4 October 1885) was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime number A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that ...

* Otto Schilling * Victor Schlegel * Ludwig Schlesinger * Oscar Schlömilch * Wilfried Schmid * Friedrich Karl Schmidt * Gunther Schmidt * Theodor Schneider *

Claus P. Schnorr Claus-Peter Schnorr (born 4 August 1943) is a German mathematician and cryptography, cryptographer. Life He received his Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. from the Saarland University, University of Saarbrücken in 1966, and his habilitation in 1970 ...

* Eckehard Schöll *

Arnold Scholz Arnold Scholz (24 December 1904 in Berlin – 1 February 1942 in Flensburg) was a German mathematician who proved Scholz's reciprocity law and introduced the Scholz conjecture In mathematics, the Scholz conjecture is a conjecture on the leng ...

* Heinrich Scholz * Peter Scholze * Johannes Schöner * Arnold Schönhage * Erich Schönhardt *

Gaspar Schott Gaspar Schott (German: ''Kaspar'' (or ''Caspar'') ''Schott''; Latin: ''Gaspar Schottus''; 5 February 1608 – 22 May 1666) was a German Jesuit and scientist, specializing in the fields of physics, mathematics and natural philosophy, and known ...

* Martin Schottenloher *

Hieronymus Schreiber Hieronymus Schreiber (died 1547), also called ''Jerôme Schreiber'', was a German doctor, mathematician and astronomer from Nuremberg. Schreiber studied from 1532 on at the University of Wittenberg with Philipp Melanchthon. There, he was considere ...

* Ernst Schröder *

Heinrich G. F. Schröder Heinrich Georg Friedrich Schröder (28 September 1810 – 12 May 1885) was a German natural scientist (physicist, chemist), mathematician and educator.Alexander KipnisSchröder, Georg Friedrich Heinrich In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 23, ...

* Heinrich Schröter * Karl Schröter * Hermann Schubert * Horst Schubert *

Johann Friedrich Schultz Johann Friedrich Schultz, also known as Johann Schultz (11 June 1739, Mühlhausen – 27 June 1805, Königsberg), was a German Enlightenment Protestant theologian, mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as a close personal friend a ...

* 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 Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (; 24 October 1821 in Zweibrücken, Germany – 13 August 1896 in Munich, German Empire) was a German mathematician. He was the son of Julie Reinhold and Justus Christian Felix Seidel. Lakatos credits von Seidel with d ...

* Wladimir Seidel *

Herbert Seifert Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert (; 27 May 1897, Bernstadt – 1 October 1996, Heidelberg) was a German mathematician known for his work in topology. Biography Seifert was born in Bernstadt auf dem Eigen, but soon moved to Bautzen, where he attend ...

* Reinhard Selten * Bernd Siebert * Carl Ludwig Siegel *

Max Simon Max Simon (6 January 1899 – 1 February 1961) was a German SS commander and war criminal during World War II. Simon was one of the first members of the SS in the early 1930s. He rose through the ranks of the SS, and became a corps commander dur ...

* Peter Slodowy * Hans Sommer * Wilhelm Specht * Emanuel Sperner *

Theodor Spieker Theodor Spieker (8 August 1823 – 9 April 1913) was a German mathematician, a teacher at a gymnasium in Potsdam. Spieker's geometry textbook (Verlag von August Stein, Potsdam, 1862) was republished in many editions. A copy of this textbook was ...

* Herbert Spohn *

Roland Sprague Roland Percival Sprague (11 July 1894, Unterliederbach – 1 August 1967) was a German mathematician, known for the Sprague–Grundy theorem and for being the first mathematician to find a perfect squared square. Biography With two mathematicia ...

* Ludwig Staiger *

Simon von Stampfer Simon Ritter von Stampfer (26 October 1792 (according to other sources 1790)), in Windisch-Mattrai, Archbishopric of Salzburg today called Matrei in Osttirol, Tyrol – 10 November 1864 in Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician, surveyor and in ...

* Angelika Steger * Karl Stein * Carl August von Steinheil * Ernst Steinitz *

Moritz Abraham Stern Moritz Abraham Stern (29 June 1807 – 30 January 1894) was a German mathematician. Stern became ''Ordinarius'' (full professor) at Göttingen University in 1858, succeeding Carl Friedrich Gauss. Stern was the first Jewish full professor at a G ...

Michael Stifel Michael Stifel or Styfel (1487 – April 19, 1567) was a German monk, Protestant reformer and mathematician. He was an Augustinian who became an early supporter of Martin Luther. He was later appointed professor of mathematics at Jena Univer ...

* Johannes Stöffler * Josef Stoer * Uwe Storch * Volker Strassen * Reinhold Strassmann * Aegidius Strauch II *

Karl Strehl Karl Wilhelm Andreas Strehl (April 30, 1864 – June 14, 1940) was a German physicist, author and mathematician. He is notable for the Strehl ratio, a widely used measurement for the optical quality of an imaging system.Strehl, K. 1902, ''Über ...

Thomas Streicher Thomas Streicher (born 1958) is a German mathematician who is a Professor of Mathematics at Technische Universität Darmstadt. He received his PhD in 1988 from the University of Passau with advisor Manfred Broy. Work His research interests i ...

* Catharina Stroppel * Michael Struwe *

Eduard Study Eduard Study ( ), more properly Christian Hugo Eduard Study (March 23, 1862 – January 6, 1930), was a German mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. He is also known ...

Ulrich Stuhler Ulrich Stuhler is a German mathematician. He currently is a professor at the University of Göttingen. He is known for his contributions to the Langlands program. In 1993, he—along with Gérard Laumon and Michael Rapoport—proved the local Lan ...

* Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm * Johann Sturm * Karl-Theodor Sturm *

Bernd Sturmfels Bernd Sturmfels (born March 28, 1962 in Kassel, West Germany) is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig si ...

* Wilhelm Süss * John M. Sullivan

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Rosalind Tanner Rosalind Cecilia Hildegard Tanner (née Young) (5 February 1900 – 24 November 1992) was a mathematician and historian of mathematics. She was the eldest daughter of the mathematicians Grace and William Young. She was born and lived in Göttinge ...

* Georg Tannstetter * Oswald Teichmüller *

Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut (22 December 1775, in Hamburg-Harburg – 4 November 1832, in Göttingen) was a German mathematician. He was the younger brother of the famous jurist Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut. He studied at the University of Gö ...

* Carl Johannes Thomae * Gerhard Thomsen * William Threlfall *

Ulrike Tillmann Ulrike Luise Tillmann FRS is a mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, who has made important contributions to the study of the moduli space of algebraic curves. She is the president of the London Mathematical Society in the period 20 ...

* Heinrich Emil Timerding *

Otto Toeplitz Otto Toeplitz (1 August 1881 – 15 February 1940) was a German mathematician working in functional analysis., reprinted in Life and work Toeplitz was born to a Jewish family of mathematicians. Both his father and grandfather were ''Gymnas ...

* Johann Georg Tralles * Abdias Treu *

Walter Trump Walter Trump (born 1952 or 1953 ) is a German mathematician and retired high school teacher. He is known for his work in recreational mathematics. He has made contributions working on both the square packing problem and the magic tile problem. In ...

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (or Tschirnhauß, ; 10 April 1651 – 11 October 1708) was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been th ...

* Reidun Twarock *

Dietrich Tzwyvel Dietrich Tzwyvel or Theodoricus Tzwyvel (1490–1536) was a German mathematician, typographer and composer. Life Tzwyvel designed the astronomical clock of the Münster Cathedral Münster Cathedral or St.-Paulus-Dom is the cathedral chur ...

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Theodor Vahlen Karl Theodor Vahlen (30 June 1869 – 16 November 1945) was an Austrian-born mathematician and professor who was a member of the Nazi Party. He served as the first ''Gauleiter'' of Pomerania and was a member of both the SA and SS. Early ye ...

Rüdiger Valk Rüdiger Valk (born 5 August 1945) is a German mathematician. From 1976 to 2010 he was Professor for Theoretical Computer Science (Informatics) at the ''Institut für Informatik'' (later ''Fachbereich Informatik'') of the University of Hamburg, Ger ...

Wilhelm Vauck Wilhelm Vauck (born 8 October 1896 in Neustadt, Dresden; died 8 December 1968 in Bautzen) was a German mathematician, physicist and university lecturer in physics and electrical engineering. During World War II, Vauck was the director of the age ...

* Hermann Vermeil *

Eva Viehmann Eva Viehmann (born in 1980) is a German mathematician who holds a professorial chair in the arithmetic geometry and representation theory research group at the University of Münster. Before that she was a professor working on arithmetic geom ...

* Eckart Viehweg *

Vitello Vitello ( pl, Witelon; german: Witelo; – 1280/1314) was a friar, theologian, natural philosopher and an important figure in the history of philosophy in Poland. Name Vitello's name varies with some sources. In earlier publications he was quo ...

* Kurt Vogel *

Arndt von Haeseler Arndt von Haeseler (born 28 February 1959) is a German bioinformatician and evolutionary biologist. He is the scientific director of the Max F. Perutz Laboratories at the Vienna Biocenter and a professor of bioinformatics at the University of ...

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Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin (November 18, 1844 – October 25, 1933) was a German mathematician. Early life Wangerin was born on November 18, 1844 in Greifenberg Pomerania, Prussia (now Gryfice, Poland). He studied at the gymnasium at ...

* Eduard Ritter von Weber *

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, number theory, and analysis. He is ...

* Werner Weber *

Katrin Wehrheim Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974) is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Their research centers around symplectic topology and gauge theory. They are known for their work on pseudoholomorphic quilts. With ...

Dieter Weichert Dieter Weichert (born 5 March 1948) is a German mechanical engineer specialising in solid mechanics and polymer rheology. From 1995 to 2013 he was the Director of the Institute for General Mechanics of RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), al ...

* Joachim Weickert *

Karl Weierstrass Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (german: link=no, Weierstraß ; 31 October 1815 – 19 February 1897) was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Despite leaving university without a degree, he studied mathematic ...

Erhard Weigel Erhard Weigel (16 December 1625 – 20 March 1699) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. Biography Weigel earned his M.A. (1650) and his habilitation (1652) from the University of Leipzig. From 1653 until his death he was profess ...

Julius Weingarten Julius Weingarten (2 March 1836 – 16 June 1910) was a German mathematician. He received his doctorate in 1864 from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces ...

* Michael Weiss * Paul Weiss *

Ernst August Weiß Ernst August Weiß (or Weiss; 5 May 1900 in Strasbourg – 9 February 1942 in a Nazi field hospital near Lake Ilmen) was a German mathematician. Early life and education Since 1906, he attended the Lyceum in Metz, the Luther school and (1910– ...

Katrin Wendland Katrin Wendland (born 1970) is a German mathematical physicist who works as a professor at Trinity College Dublin.. Wendland earned a diploma in mathematics from the University of Bonn in 1996, and a PhD in physics from the University of Bonn ...

* Elisabeth M. Werner *

Johannes Werner Johann(es) Werner ( la, Ioannes Vernerus; February 14, 1468 – May 1522) was a German mathematician. He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, where he became a parish priest. His primary work was in astronomy, mathematics, and geography, although he ...

Hermann Weyl Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, (; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is ass ...

Johannes Widmann Johannes Widmann (c. 1460 – after 1498) was a German mathematician. The + and - symbols first appeared in print in his book ''Mercantile Arithmetic'' or ''Behende und hüpsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft'' published in Leipzig in 1489 ...

* Arthur Wieferich * Helmut Wielandt * Anna Wienhard * Hermann Wilken * Rudolf Wille * Thomas Willwacher * Ernst Eduard Wiltheiss *

Ernst Witt Ernst Witt (26 June 1911 – 3 July 1991) was a German mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time. Biography Witt was born on the island of Alsen, then a part of the German Empire. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved the ...

* Alexander Witting * Franz Woepcke * Barbara Wohlmuth * Paul Wolfskehl * Hans Wussing *

Peter Wynn Peter Wynn (born 23 December 1957 in Maitland, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He played for the Parramatta Eels in the New South Wales Rugby League premie ...

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Hans Zassenhaus Hans Julius Zassenhaus (28 May 1912 – 21 November 1991) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. Biography He was born in Koblenz in 1912. His father was a historian and ...

* Julius August Christoph Zech * Christian Zeller * Karl Longin Zeller * Christoph Zenger * Sarah Zerbes *

Ernst Zermelo Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (, ; 27 July 187121 May 1953) was a German logician and mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics. He is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic s ...

* Karl Eduard Zetzsche *

Günter M. Ziegler Günter Matthias Ziegler (born 19 May 1963) is a German mathematician who has been serving as president of the Free University of Berlin since 2018. Ziegler is known for his research in discrete mathematics and geometry, and particularly on the ...

Heiner Zieschang Heiner Zieschang (12 November 1936 in Kiel – 5 April 2004 in Bochum) was a German mathematician. He was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 36 ...

Johann Jacob Zimmermann Johann Jacob Zimmermann (November 25, 1642 – 1693) was a German nonconformist theologian, millenarian, mathematician, and astronomer. Life Zimmermann was born in Vaihingen, Württemberg (now Germany) on November 25, 1642."Who Do You Think You ...

* Thomas Zink *

Benedict Zuckermann Benedict Zuckermann (9 October 1818 – 17 December 1891) was a Jewish scientist in Breslau. Life Zuckermann was born in Breslau (Wrocław), in the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of Silesia, an Ashkenazic Jew. He received a thorough Hebr ...

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