Previous changes: up to September 2025

More than 250 of the mathematicians in our archive have obituaries written for the Royal Society of London.

We list them alphabetically at THIS LINK and chronologically at THIS LINK.

We have added 10 new biographies:


There are 22 new entries in our Additional material category. Each is linked to the biography on the left.

Albert_Abraham A Adrian Albert Books
BrezisHaïm Brezis Books
BrezisHaïm Brezis Prizes
DicksteinSamuel Dickstein's 160th anniversary
Fuchs_Laszlo László Fuchs Books
Gregory_D_FDuncan Farquharson Gregory prospectus
Gumbel The Professor from Heidelberg
GumbelEmil Julius Gumbel's publications
HawkingStephen Hawking Books
HersteinI N Herstein Books
JacobsonNathan Jacobson Books
KollarJános Kollár Awards
Kollar János Kollár Books
Lax_PeterPeter Lax Awards and Prizes
Nelson_EdwardEdward Nelson Books
Nelson_Edward Edward Nelson: 1995 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
Ranicki Andrew Ranicki on his parents and his upbringing
SierpinskiWacław Sierpiński The Warsaw School of Mathematics and the Present State of Mathematics in Poland
Simon_BarryBarry Simon Awards and Prizes
Simon_BarryBarry Simon Books
Simon_BarryBarry Simon's computing books
Creators of the Polish mathematical school

Heinz Klaus Strick has added another four biographies to his Collection of biographies: