Category
page 1Mathematics popularizers
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)
Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician
George Pólya
Hungarian mathematician (1887-1985)
Martin Gardner
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
Sal Khan
American educator (born 1976)
John Horton Conway
English mathematician (1937–2020)
Edwin Abbott Abbott
British theologian and author (1838-1926)
Timothy Gowers
British mathematician
Douglas Hofstadter
American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science
Daina Taimiņa
American mathematician of Latvian origin (born 1954)
Lancelot Hogben
British zoologist, statistician, science writer (1895–1975)
Édouard Lucas
French mathematician (1842–1891)
Raymond Smullyan
American mathematician (1919–2017)
Richard Courant
German American mathematician (1888-1972)
Eric Temple Bell
Scottish American mathematician and science fiction author (1883-1960)
Sam Loyd
American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician (1841–1911)
Ian Stewart
mathematician and author
Yakov Perelman
Russian science writer (1882–1942)
Ronald Graham
American mathematician (1935-2020)
Simon Singh
British mathematician, journalist and science communicator (born 1964)
Leonard Mlodinow
American physicist, author and screenwriter
Eric Lander
director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President
Henry Dudeney
puzzlist and mathematical games designer (1857–1930)
Marcus du Sautoy
British professor of mathematics
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp
American mathematician (1940-2019)
Hannah Fry
British mathematician and TV presenter (1984-)
Richard K. Guy
British mathematician (1916-2020)
Otto Toeplitz
German mathematician (1881–1940)
Solomon W. Golomb
American mathematician (1932–2016)
Barry Mazur
American mathematician
Keith Devlin
British mathematician
Mario Livio
Romanian-born Israeli–American astrophysicist (born 1945)
W. W. Rouse Ball
English mathematician and lawyer (1850–1925)
Steven H. Strogatz
American mathematician
Edward Frenkel
mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics
Hans Rademacher
German mathematician (1892–1969)
3Blue1Brown
3Blue1Brown is an educational YouTube channel created and run by Grant Sanderson. The channel focuses on teaching higher mathematics from a visual perspective, and on the process of discovery and inquiry-based learning in mathematics, which Sanderson calls "inventing math".
Persi Diaconis
American mathematician
David Singmaster
British mathematician
Apostolos Doxiadis
Greek writer
Günter M. Ziegler
German mathematician
John Derbyshire
British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer (born 1945)
Matt Parker
Australian comedian and math communicator
Herbert Robbins
American mathematician (1915–2001)
David Eisenbud
American mathematician
Brady Haran
Australian video journalist
Júlio César de Mello e Souza
Brazilian mathematician (1895–1974)
Arthur T. Benjamin
American mathematician
Clifton Fadiman
American author, editor, and radio and TV personality (1904–1999)
Eugenia Cheng
English mathematician and pianist
Clifford A. Pickover
American author and scientist
Charles Seife
American author, journalist and professor
Vi Hart
American recreational mathematician
Clara Grima
Spanish applied mathematician
Wilhelm Ahrens
German mathematician (1872–1927)
Jean-Paul Delahaye
French mathematician, computer scientist