The following mathematicians are too well-known or too famous to get a bio. I want you to learn about mathematicians you DON'T know about, not research ones you know!

• Albert Einstein 

• Isaac Newton

• Leonardo Pisano Bigollo (Fibonnaci)

• Thales

• Pythagoras

• Rene Descartes

• Archimedes

• John Forbes Nash

• Blaise Paschal

• Euclid

• Karl Friedrich Gauss

• Leonhard Euler

• Ptolemy

• Eratosthenes

• Pierre de Fermat

• John Napier

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• David Hilbert

• Andrew Wiles

• Daniel Bernoulli

The following mathematicians might be popular/well-known, but ARE allowed because they aren't talked about enough!

• Aryabhata

• Alan Turing

• Srinivasa Ramanujan

• Ada Lovelace

• Katherine Johnson

• Maria Agnesi

Resources to search for mathematicians:

Find a mathematician on one of the websites below. Check to make sure they are not one of the "no's" above. Then do some internet research!

• Famous Mathematicians - you can sort by first or last name or Nationality

• The Mathematician Project  - dedicated to celebrating diversity in mathematics - this is a spreadsheet that you can sort by identified gender or ethnicity

  • • The above Google Sheet came from The Mathematician Project website, which has other lists of resources!

• Search a Mathematician by Birth date 

• List of Mathematicians - Wikipedia - Links to lists of mathematicians by nationality, ethnicity, or religion

• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora - Listings and brief descriptions of African-American Mathematicians

  • • Updated Mathematicians of the African Diaspora

  • Mathematically Gifted and Black: https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/ 

• Black Women Rock Math - a collection of hidden voices in math education

  • A Timeline of Mathematics - This beautiful interactive website will allow you to search a mathematician based on era. Be careful - there are other important events and subjects for mathematics listed here, so make sure you use it to choose a person, not a subject or object.

  • Scientist Spotlights https://scientistspotlights.org/

  • SACNAS Biography Project https://www.sacnas.org/sacnas-biography-project/ 

  • LatinX Mathematicians: https://www.lathisms.org/calendars/calendars