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Selected Mathematicians and Statisticians Abel, Niels Henrik, Norwegian mathematician Achenwall, Gottfried, German statistician and political scientis Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, French mathematician and philosopher Al-Khowarizmi, Arab mathematician Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician of the Alexandrian school Archimedes, Greek mathematician Babbage, Charles, English mathematician and inventor Banach, Stefan, Polish mathematician Banu Musa, family of Arab mathematicians and astronomers Barrow, Isaac, English mathematician and theologian Beltrami, Eugenio, Italian mathematician Benedetti, Giovanni Battista, Italian mathematician and physicist Bernoulli, family of mathematicians and scientists Bhaskara, Indian mathematician and astronomer Birkhoff, Garrett, American mathematician Birkhoff, George David, American mathematician Bolyai, family of Hungarian mathematicians Bolzano, Bernard, Czech philosopher Boole, George, English mathematician and logician Briggs, Henry, English mathematician Calderón, Alberto, Argentine mathematician Cantor, Georg, German mathematician Cardano, Geronimo, Italian physician and mathematician Cartan, Élie Joseph, French mathematician Cauchy, Augustin Louis, Baron, French mathematician Cavalieri, Francesco Bonaventura, Italian mathematician Cayley, Arthur, English mathematician Chern, Shiing-Shen, Chinese-American mathematician Ch’in Chiu-shao, Chinese mathematician Chu Shih-chieh, Chinese mathematician Chuquet, Nicolas, French mathematician Cournot, Antoine Augustin, French mathematician and economist De Morgan, Augustus, English mathematician and logician Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard, French mathematician Dee, John, German mathematician Desargues, Gérard, French mathematician and engineer Descartes, René, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist Dickson, Leonard Eugene, American mathematician Diophantus, Greek algebraist Erdös, Paul, Hungarian mathematician Euclid, Greek mathematician Euler, Leonhard, Swiss mathematician Fermat, Pierre de, French mathematician Fibonacci, Leonardo, French mathematician Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, English statistician and geneticist Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, English statistician and geneticist Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron, French mathematician and physicist Frege, Gottlob, German philosopher and mathematician Gödel, Kurt, American mathematician and logician Galileo, Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist Gallup, George Horace, American public opinion statistician, originator of the Gallup poll Galois, Évariste, French mathematician Gauss, Carl Friedrich, German mathematician Germain, Sophie, French mathematician Grassmann, Hermann Gunther, American mathematician and logician Gunter, Edmund, English mathematician and astronomer Habash al-Hasib, Arab mathematician and astronomer Hamilton, Sir William Rowan, Irish mathematician and astronomer Harriot, Thomas, English mathematician and astronomer Hermite, Charles, French mathematician Heron of Alexandria, Greek mathematician Hilbert, David, German mathematician Ibn al-Haytham, Arab mathematician Jeans, Sir James Hopwood, English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Kakutani, Shizuo, Japanese mathematician Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron, British mathematician and physicist Klein, Christian Felix, German mathematician Knuth, Donald Ervin, American mathematician and computer scientist Kovalevsky, Sonya, Russian mathematician Kronecker, Leopold, German mathematician Lagrange, Joseph Louis, Comte, French mathematician and astronomer Legendre, Adrien Marie, French mathematician Levi-Civita, Tullio, Italian mathematician Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich, Russian mathematician Möbius, Augustus Ferdinand, German mathematician and astronomer Maclaurin, Colin, Scottish mathematician and natural philosopher Mandelbrot, Benoit B....