List of amateur mathematicians
- List of amateur mathematicians
This is a list of amateur mathematicians—people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics (or any similar discipline) yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics. In general, they are not listed in the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
*Ahmes (scribe)
*Robert Ammann (programmer and postal worker)
*John Arbuthnot (surgeon and author)
*Jean-Robert Argand (bookkeeper)
*Rev. Thomas Bayes (Presbyterian minister)
*Harlan J. Brothers (teacher, inventor, and musician)
*Sir James Cockle (judge)
*Martin Demaine (goldsmith and glass artist)
*Reo Fortune (anthropologist)
*Bernard Frénicle de Bessy (counsellor)
*Danica McKeller (actress)
*Britney Gallivan (high school student)
*James Garfield (United States President)
*Thorold Gosset (lawyer)
*Hermann Grassmann (school teacher)
*Oliver Heaviside (telegraph operator)
*Kurt Heegner (private scholar)
*F. H. Jackson (navy chaplain)
*Alfred Bray Kempe (lawyer)
*Kathleen Ollerenshaw (politician)
*Rudolf Ondrejka (veterinarian)
*Nicolò Paganini (schoolboy)
*Panini (linguist)
*Kenneth Perko (lawyer)
*Pingala (musician)
*François Proth (farmer)
*Marjorie Rice (homemaker)
*William Shanks (landlord)
*Gaston Tarry (civil servant)
And the man widely regarded as "The King of Amateurs",
* Pierre de Fermat (lawyer)
ee also
*W. W. Rouse Ball
*Arthur Cayley
*Ada Dietz
*Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
*Robert Leslie Ellis
*Buckminster Fuller
*Angelo Genocchi
*Sophie Germain
*George Green
*Ludwig Immanuel Magnus
*Ludwig Schläfli
*William James Sidis
*Mathematician
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