Mathematicians through 1500

  • Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.E.)
  • Balbus (fl. c. 100 C.E.)
  • Anicius Maulius Severinus Boethius (c. 480-524)
  • Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (c. 490-c. 585)
  • Bede (673-735)
  • Alcuin of York (c. 735-804)
  • Gerbert d'Aurillac, Pope Sylvester II (c. 945-1003)
  • Adelard of Bath (1075-1164)
  • John of Seville (c. 1125)
  • Plato of Tivoli (c. 1125)
  • Girard of Cremona (1114-1187)
  • Robert of Chester (c. 1150)
  • Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168-1253)
  • Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) (1170-1240)
  • Alexandre de Villedieu (c. 1225)
  • John of Halifax (Sacrobosco) (c. 1200-1256)
  • Campanus of Novara (c. 1205-1296)
  • Girard of Brussels (c. 1235)
  • Jordanus de Nemore (fl. 1230-1260)
  • Wilhelm of Moerbeke (c. 1215-1286)
  • Roger Bacon (c. 1219-1292)
  • John Pecham (c. 1230-1292)
  • Gerard of Brussels (c. 1250)
  • Witelo (Vitellio) (fl. 1250-1275)
  • John Duns Scotus (1266-1308)
  • William of Ockham (c. 1280-c. 1349)
  • Richard of Wallingford (1291-1336)
  • Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1295-1349)
  • Nicholas Rhabdas (d. 1350)
  • Jean Buridan (c. 1300-1358)
  • John of Meurs (Johannes de Muris) (c. 1343)
  • Albert of Saxony (c. 1316-1390)
  • Nicole Oresme (c. 1325-1382)
  • John of Dumbleton (c. 1345)
  • William of Heytesbury (d. c. 1373)
  • Dominicus de Clavasio (c. 1346)
  • Immanuel Bonfils (c. 1350)
  • Giovanni di Casali (c. 1350)
  • Richard Swineshead (Suiseth, Calculator) (c. 1350)
  • Antonio de Mazzinghi (b. c. 1353)
  • Paolo del Pozzo Toscanelli (1397-1482)
  • Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464)
  • Leone Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
  • Piero della Francesca (c. 1410-1492)
  • George Peurbach (1423-1461)
  • Johannes Campanus (c. 1450)
  • Johann M¨¹ller of K?nigsberg (Regiomontanus) (1436-1476)
  • Luca Pacioli (c. 1445-c. 1514)
  • Nicolas Chuquet (c. 1445-c. 1500)
  • Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
  • Johann Widman (b. c. 1460)
  • Scipione del Ferro (c. 1465-1526)
  • Johannes Werner (1468-1522)
  • Albrecht D¨¹rer (1471-1528)
  • Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543)

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