| Jordan algebras are called after the German physicist and mathematician Pascual Jordan. |
| As a result of these classes, Emmy made the radical decision to abandon school teaching and make a career as a mathematician. |
| Kamalakara was an Indian astronomer and mathematician who came from a family of famous astronomers. |
| The mathematician W. H. Miller graduated as fifth wrangler at Cambridge in 1826 and was awarded a fellowship at St. John's College. |
| In the third century BC, the famous Greek mathematician Archimedes issued a challenge to the Alexandrian mathematicians, headed by Eratosthenes. |
| His greatest affair was with the mathematician and pioneering feminist Emilie du Chatelet. |
