History of Mathematics Links:
Biographies of Mathematicians

The following sites each provide biographies of a substantial number of mathematicians. Other sites with biographical information concening mathematicians are listed under Biographies of Scientists, and under Sites relating to Individual Mathematicians.

• MacTutor History of Mathematics: Indexes of Biographies (University of St. Andrews)
• Biographies of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians, based on material from A short account of the history of mathematics (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
• Mathematicians included in Catalogue of the Scientific Community: 16th and 17th Centuries, compiled by Richard S. Westfall.
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians (Larry Riddle, Agnes Scott College)

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