Mathematicians

John Couch Adams

1819-1892
Astronomer and mathematician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Elias Allen

circa 1588-1653
Mathematical instrument maker
Sitter in 2 portraits

Thomas Allen

1540?-1632
Mathematician and antiquary
Sitter in 1 portrait

Khadambi Asalache

1935-2006
Poet, novelist, philosopher of mathematics and civil servant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah

1929-2019
Mathematician; Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Bt

1576-1657
Patron of mathematical learning
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Hertha Ayrton

1854-1923
Electrical engineer, mathematician and suffragette
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Babbage

1791-1871
Mathematician, mechanical engineer, philosopher and computer pioneer
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Robert Stawell Ball

1840-1913
Astronomer and mathematician
Sitter in 8 portraits

Peter Barlow

1776-1862
Mathematician, physicist and optician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ernest William Barnes

1874-1953
Mathematician; scientist; theologian and bishop
Sitter in 8 portraits

(Thomas) Brooke Benjamin

1929-1995
Mathematical physicist and mathematician; Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Oxford
Sitter in 1 portrait

Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

1891-1970
Mathematician; Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hugh Blackburn

1823-1909
Mathematician and college administrator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Hermann Bondi

1919-2005
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Boole

1815-1864
Mathematician; inventor of Boolean logic
Sitter in 2 portraits

Jacob Bronowski

1908-1974
Mathematician, poet and humanist
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker

1620-1684
Mathematician; first President of the Royal Society
Sitter in 4 portraits

George Brown

circa 1650-1730
Mathematician; minister of religion
Sitter in 1 portrait

Christopher J. Budd

1960-
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Sitter in 1 portrait