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Pages in category "British mathematicians" The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:21st-century Black British mathematicians and Category:21st-century British women mathematicians The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Hannah M. Fry HonFREng FIMA FIET (born 21 February 1984) is a British mathematician, author and broadcaster. As of 2025 she is the Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge [3] and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). [4]
This is a List of Lists of mathematicians and covers notable mathematicians by nationality, ethnicity, religion, profession and other characteristics. Alphabetical lists are also available (see table to the right).
Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory.He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal and for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. [1]
British mathematicians had remained largely in the tradition of applied mathematics, in thrall to the reputation of Isaac Newton (see Cambridge Mathematical Tripos). Hardy was more in tune with the cours d'analyse methods dominant in France, and aggressively promoted his conception of pure mathematics, in particular against the hydrodynamics ...
Pages in category "English mathematicians" The following 148 pages are in this category, out of 148 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Frank Adams;
Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195–1256), mathematician and astronomer; Roger Bacon (1212–1292), mathematician, astronomer, alchemist and philosopher; John Peckham (1230–1292), astronomer; William Ockham (1287–1347), theologian, philosopher and physicist; Richard of Wallingford (1292–1336), mathematician and astronomer; John Dastin (1293 ...