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mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

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Ilka Agricola Ilka Agricola (born 8 August 1973 in The Hague)Curriculum vitae
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* Rudolf Ahlswede * Wilhelm Ahrens * Oskar Anderson * Karl Apfelbacher * Philipp Apian * Petrus Apianus * Michael Artin * Günter Asser * Bruno Augenstein * Georg Aumann

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* Isaak Bacharach * Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann * Reinhold Baer * Christian Bär *

Wolf Barth Wolf Paul Barth (20 October 1942, in Wernigerode – 30 December 2016, in Nuremberg) was a German mathematician who discovered Barth surfaces and whose work on vector bundles has been important for the ADHM construction. Until 2011, Barth was w ...

* Corinna Bath * Friedrich L. Bauer * August Beer * Walter Benz * Rudolf Berghammer * Felix Bernstein * Ludwig Berwald *

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

Karl Bobek Karl Joseph Bobek (1855–1899) was a German mathematician working on elliptic functions and geometry Geometry (; ) is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of f ...

Friedrich Böhm Friedrich Böhm (born 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 ...

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 grad ...

Hermann Bottenbruch Hermann Bottenbruch (14 September 1928 – 20 May 2019) was a German mathematician and computer scientist. Biography 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 ...

* Benjamin Bramer * Andreas Brandstädt * Heinrich Brandt * Richard Brauer * Hel Braun * Nikolas Breuckmann * Alexander von Brill * Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix * Max Brückner * Heinrich Bruns * Roland Bulirsch * Johann Karl Burckhardt * Heinrich Burkhardt * Hans Heinrich Bürmann

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

Constantin Carathéodory Constantin Carathéodory (; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greeks, Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, ...

* Wilhelm Cauer * Ludolph van Ceulen * Otfried Cheong * David Christiani * Christopher Clavius * Stephan Cohn-Vossen * Paul Cohn * Armin B. Cremers * Peter Crüger

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* Richard Dedekind * Herbert von Denffer * Christopher Deninger * Otto Dersch * Max Deuring * Anton Deusing * Wolfgang Doeblin * Gustav Doetsch * Andreas Dress

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* Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus * Carl Gottlieb Ehler * Martin Eichler * Lorentz Eichstadt * Bettina Eick * Kirsten Eisenträger * Joachim Engel * Karin Erdmann * Andreas von Ettingshausen

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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 inspi ...

* Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov * Käte Fenchel * Paul Finsler * Felix Finster * Bernd Fischer * Hans 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 philos ...

* Gerhard Frey * Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff * Robert Fricke * Robert Frucht * Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs * 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 (; ; ; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. He was director of the Göttingen Observatory and ...

* Gerhard Geise * Heide Gluesing-Luerssen * Johannes von Gmunden * Christian Goldbach *

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 profoundly ...

* Adolph Göpel * Rudolf Gorenflo * Lothar Göttsche * Hermann Grassmann * Heinrich Friedrich Gretschel * Michael Griebel * Martin Grötschel * Detlef Gromoll * Nicolas Guisnée

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* Wolfgang Hackbusch * Arndt von Haeseler * Elisabeth Hagemann * Wolfgang Hahn * Rudolf Halin * Orit Halpern * 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 ...

* Raphael Levi Hannover * Carl Gustav Axel Harnack * Paul Harzer * Helmut Hasse * Maria Hasse * Otto Hesse * Felix Hausdorff *

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 Leg ...

* 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 * Annette Huber-Klawitter * Klaus Hulek * Gerhard Hund * Adolf Hurwitz

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* Ilse Ipsen * Caspar Isenkrahe

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* Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi * Eugen Jahnke * Ferdinand Joachimsthal * Philipp von Jolly * Wilhelm Jordan * Jürgen Jost *

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 University of Ro ...

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* Erich Kähler * Margarete Kahn * Gabriele Kaiser * Theodor Kaluza * Erich Kamke * Ralph Kaufmann * Julia Kempe *

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

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

* Alfred Kneschke * Adolf Kneser * Hellmuth Kneser * Martin Kneser * Herbert Koch * Karl-Rudolf Koch * Rudolf Kochendörffer * Leo Königsberger * Gottfried Köthe * Ernst Kötter * Gerhard Kowalewski *

Leopold Kronecker Leopold Kronecker (; 7 December 1823 – 29 December 1891) was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, abstract algebra and logic, and criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory. Heinrich Weber quoted Kronecker as having said, ...

* Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger * Ulrich Kulisch

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* Georg Landsberg * Hans Langmaack * Karl Christian von Langsdorf * Johann Lantz * Wilhelm Leber *

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to ...

* Kurt Leichtweiss * Wolfgang Leinberer * Thomas Lengauer * Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt * Jacob Leupold * Ferdinand von Lindemann * Rudolf Lipschitz * Peter Littelmann * Martin Löb * Alfred Loewy * Paul Lorenzen * Leopold Löwenheim * Yuri Luchko * Wolfgang Lück * Stephan Luckhaus * Günter Lumer * Jacob Lüroth

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* Michael Maestlin * Paul Mahlo * Helmut Maier * Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt * Yuri Manin * Jens Marklof * Johannes Marquart *

Karl Marx Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...

* Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer * Johann Tobias Mayer * Ernst Mayr * Gustav Ferdinand Mehler * Ludwig Mehlhorn * Nicholas Mercator * Franz Mertens * Uta Merzbach * Richard Meyer * Preda Mihăilescu * Hermann Minkowski * Otfrid Mittmann *

August Ferdinand Möbius August Ferdinand Möbius (, ; ; 17 November 1790 – 26 September 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. Life and education Möbius was born in Schulpforta, Electorate of Saxony, and was descended on his mothe ...

* Arnold Möller * Karl Mollweide * Robert Edouard Moritz * Jürgen Moser * Ruth Moufang * John Müller * Stefan Müller * Werner Müller * Herman Müntz

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* Valentin Naboth * Frank Natterer * Gabriele Nebe * Leonard Nelson * Eugen Netto * Jürgen Neukirch * Carl Neumann * Hanna Neumann * Walter Neumann * Mara Neusel * Nicholas of Cusa * Carsten Niebuhr * Hans-Volker Niemeier * Barbara Niethammer * Joachim Nitsche * Georg Nöbeling *

Emmy Noether Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's theorem, Noether's first and Noether's second theorem, second theorems, which ...

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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 * Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt * Volker Oppitz * Felix Otto

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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 * 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 * Reinhold Remmert * Lasse Rempe-Gillen * Theodor Reye * Hans-Egon Richert * Michael M. Richter *

Bernhard Riemann Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (; ; 17September 182620July 1866) was a German mathematician who made profound contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. In the field of real analysis, he is mostly known for the f ...

* 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 * Heinrich G. F. Schröder * Heinrich Schröter * Karl Schröter * Hermann Schubert * Horst Schubert * Johann Friedrich Schultz * Friedrich Schur *

Issai Schur Issai Schur (10 January 1875 – 10 January 1941) was a Russian mathematician who worked in Germany for most of his life. He studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in 1901, became lecturer i ...

* 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 Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert (; 27 May 1907, 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 atte ...

* Reinhard Selten * Bernd Siebert * Carl Ludwig Siegel * Max Simon * Peter Slodowy * Hans Sommer * Wilhelm Specht * Emanuel Sperner * Theodor Spieker * Herbert Spohn * Roland Sprague * Ludwig Staiger * Simon von Stampfer * Angelika Steger * 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 Michael Struwe (born 6 October 1955 in Wuppertal) is a German mathematician who specializes in calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations. He won the 2012 Cantor medal from the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung for "outs ...

Eduard Study Christian Hugo Eduard Study ( ; 23 March 1862 – 6 January 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 for contributions to space geome ...

* Ulrich Stuhler * Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm * Johann Sturm * Karl-Theodor Sturm * Bernd Sturmfels * Wilhelm Süss * 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

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* Helmut Ulm

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* Theodor Vahlen * Rüdiger Valk * Wilhelm Vauck * Hermann Vermeil * Eva Viehmann * Eckart Viehweg * Vitello * Kurt Vogel

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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 * Katrin Wehrheim * Dieter Weichert * Joachim Weickert *

Karl Weierstrass Karl Theodor Wilhelm 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 mathematics and trained as a school t ...

* Erhard Weigel * Julius Weingarten * Michael Weiss * Paul Weiss * Ernst August Weiß * Katrin Wendland * Elisabeth M. Werner * Johannes Werner *

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

* 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

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* Hans Zassenhaus * Julius August Christoph Zech * Christian Zeller * Karl Longin Zeller * Christoph Zenger * Sarah Zerbes * Ernst Zermelo * Karl Eduard Zetzsche * Günter M. Ziegler * Heiner Zieschang * Johann Jacob Zimmermann * Thomas Zink * Benedict Zuckermann

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