Directories Websites

Some biographical sketches of mathematicians, ancient and modern.

Brief biographies for virtually every important mathematician in history.

Biographies to illustrate the achievements of women in the field of mathematics.

Research into the collaboration graph centered around mathematician Paul Erdös.

Biographies of famous mathematicians, indexed alphabetically and chronologically. Part of MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

Biographies of mathematicians.

Combined Membership List for the AMS, MAA, SIAM, AMATYC, AWM and CMS. Includes almost all North American mathematicians.

A list of all of the important mathematicians working in a given century.

Accounts of their lives and works, adapted from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by W. W. Rouse Ball.

Searchable directory of individual members of the European Mathematical Society who have permitted the publication of their data.

Searchable: requires subscription.

Biographies, bibliographies, a search engine, information and links to journals, newsletters, and catalogs on or of interest to women in mathematics.

High-quality scans of postage stamps from around the world picturing famous mathematicians.

African American Mathematicians.

Searchable database of mathematics doctorates by advisor, school, year, thesis title, and thesis topic.

Compiled by Sergei Duzhin.

Citations for the prize-winners.

Listings by name, location, and fields of interest. Also includes search function.

Email directory of logicians, algebraists, and programming linguists working primarily on structural problems in mathematics and computer science.

The data submitted by the Estonian Mathematical Society to the World Directory of Mathematicians.

Photographs of Mathematicians from all over the world.

Awarded to mathematicians not over 40 years of age for outstanding discoveries in Mathematics. Links to the biographies.

Awarded annually since 2003 to one or more outstanding mathematicians. Citations and links to biographies.