Mathematician computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Mathematician. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
 | Alan Turing Developer of the Turing Machine and Turing Test. Category: Analyst, Father, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexey Lyapunov Soviet mathematician and pioneer of computer science. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alonzo Church Founder of theoretical computer science. Category: Founder, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Antonin Svoboda Computer scientist, engineer, and researcher credited for fault-tolerant computer systems. Category: Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Arthur Burks Mathematician who helped design the ENIAC. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Bernard Galler American mathematician and computer scientist who worked in developing large-scale operating systems and computer languages. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bill Gosper American mathematician and programmer and one of the founders of the hacker community with Richard Greenblatt. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Blaise Pascal Mathematician, writer, child prodigy, and inventor of the Pascaline. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Claude Shannon Father of information theory. Category: Engineer, Father, Founder, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Cleve Moler American computer programmer and inventor of MATLAB. Category: Chairman, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Hilbert German mathematician known for discovering invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | David Young American computer scientist and mathematician. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Derrick Lehmer American mathematician. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Dimitri Bertsekas Applied mathematician and computer scientist known for Convex optimization and Approximate Dynamic Programming. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edmund Berkeley Co-founder of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edmund Gunter English mathematician known for inventing Gunter's Scale and the first successful analog device. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Emil Post Influential mathematician and logician. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Evelyn Granville One of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D in mathematics. Category: African American, Female , Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Georg Ohm German physicist and mathematician best known for Ohm's law. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | George Boole Mathematician, logician, and inventor of what is now known as Boolean logic. Category: Founder, Inventor, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Georgy Adelson-velsky Soviet computer scientist who helped invent the AVL tree and the development of chess programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gertrude Blanch American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. Category: Director, Female , Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Gottfried Leibniz German mathematician and philosopher and most prolific inventors of mechanical calculators. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Harry Goode American statistician, mathematician, electrical and chemical engineer, professor, and author. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Haskell Curry Pioneer of combinatorial logic. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Henry Briggs English mathematician known for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Herman Goldstine Mathematician and computer scientist who helped develop the ENIAC. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Isaac Newton English mathematician and physicist known for Universal gravitation and Calculus. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Wilkinson English scientist, mathematician, and discoverer of many significant algorithms. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jean Fourier Known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications of heat transfers and vibrations. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Johann Gauss German mathematician and physical scientist called the Prince of Mathematicians. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Johannes Kepler German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
| John Conway Mathematician, contributor to the fields of number theory, game theory, and combinatorics, and inventor of Conway's Game of Life. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, and Writer | |
 | John Kemeny Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist and co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Napier Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and inventor of Napier's bones. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Nash American mathematician known for Nash equilibrium and Nash embedding theorem. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Neumann Helped developed von Neumann architecture. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Pasta American computer scientist known for co-originating the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Kenneth Iverson Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Klaus Samelson German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Kurt Godel Austrian American logician, mathematician, and philosopher best known for his two incompleteness theorems. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Laszlo Kalmar Hungarian mathematician considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leonid Khachiyan Soviet mathematician who helped advance the field of linear programming. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Lotfali Zadeh Mathematician, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and founder of fuzzy mathematics. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Louis Couffignal French Mathematician and Cybernetics pioneer and author of La cybernétique (1978). Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Malcolm Mcilroy Mathematician, engineer, and programmer known for Unix pipelines and software componentry. Category: Chairman, Editor, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Mark Pinsker Russian mathematician who fields of study included information theory, probability theory and coding theory. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Maxwell Newman British mathematician and codebreaker and one of the creators of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Mina Rees American mathematician, and the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Category: Female , Manager, Mathematician, President, and Writer |
 | Neil Sloane British-US mathematician known for being the creator of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
| Norbert Weiner American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at MIT and originator of cybernetics. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Researcher, and Writer | |
 | Pafnuty Chebyshev Statistics, mechanics, and analytical geometry. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Philibert Docagne French engineer and mathematician. Category: Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Philip Emeagwali Nigerian-born computer scientist known for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer. Category: African American, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ramon Llull Poet, theologian, mystic, mathematician, logician, and martyr who is called a pioneer of computation theory. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Rene Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and writer dubbed the father of modern philosophy. Category: Father, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Richard Hamming American mathematician and author who invented Hamming codes - computer error-detecting and correcting codes. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Prim Computer scientist who developed two different algorithms for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Samuel Morland 17th century English academic, inventor, spy, diplomat, mathematician, and inventor of adding machines. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Seymour Papert MIT mathematician and educator and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Solomon Golomb American engineer, mathematician, and professor known for his development of mathematical games. Category: Coined, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, and Writer |
 | Stephen Cook American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician and one of the forefathers of computational complexity theory. Category: Father, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stephen Kleene American mathematician and co-founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Steven Bourne British computer scientist known for authoring the Bourne shell. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Winifred Asprey American mathematician and computer scientist. Category: Female , Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |