Who was there ?


Mathematicians in our archive who were alive in the year 1840 are:

Dominique Cassini was 92 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Caroline Herschel was 90 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Simon Lhuilier was 90 this year and died this year.
François Budan was 79 this year and died this year.
Ruan Yuan was 76 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
James Ivory was 75 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Sylvestre Lacroix was 75 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
François-Joseph Servois was 72 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
William Wallace was 72 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Louis Puissant was 71 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Joseph Gergonne was 69 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
Antoine-André-Louis Reynaud was 69 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Robert Haldane was 68 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Louis Francoeur was 67 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Jean-Baptiste Biot was 66 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Farkas Bolyai was 65 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Robert Adrain was 65 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Peter Barlow was 64 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Louis Poinsot was 63 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
Carl Friedrich Gauss was 63 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Hoëné Wronski was 62 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Benjamin Gompertz was 61 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
August Crelle was 60 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Mary Somerville was 60 this year and would die in a further 32 years.
Siméon-Denis Poisson was 59 this year and died this year.
Bernard Bolzano was 59 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Giovanni Plana was 59 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Claude-Louis Mathieu was 57 this year and would die in a further 35 years.
Charles-Julien Brianchon was 57 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Yakov Kulik was 57 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Wilhelm Bessel was 56 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Charles Dupin was 56 this year and would die in a further 33 years.
Jacques Binet was 54 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
François Arago was 54 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
John Walsh was 54 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
James Thomson was 54 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
William Hamilton was 52 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Jean-Victor Poncelet was 52 this year and would die in a further 27 years.
Georg Simon Ohm was 51 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy was 51 this year and would die in a further 17 years.
August Möbius was 50 this year and would die in a further 28 years.
Theodore Strong was 50 this year and would die in a further 29 years.
George Peacock was 49 this year and would die in a further 18 years.
Felix Savart was 49 this year and would die the following year.
Charles Babbage was 49 this year and would die in a further 31 years.
Michael Faraday was 49 this year and would die in a further 27 years.
John Herschel was 48 this year and would die in a further 31 years.
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was 48 this year and would die in a further 3 years.
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was 48 this year and would die in a further 16 years.
Théodore Olivier was 47 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
William Hopkins was 47 this year and would die in a further 26 years.
Michel Chasles was 47 this year and would die in a further 40 years.
George Green was 47 this year and would die the following year.
Germinal P Dandelin was 46 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Franz Adolph Taurinus was 46 this year and would die in a further 34 years.
Bernt Holmboe was 45 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Louis Richard was 45 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Gabriel Lamé was 45 this year and would die in a further 30 years.
Arthur J Morin was 45 this year and would die in a further 40 years.
Thomas Carlyle was 45 this year and would die in a further 41 years.
Olinde Rodrigues was 45 this year and would die in a further 11 years.
Adolphe Quetelet was 44 this year and would die in a further 34 years.
Jakob Steiner was 44 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Nikolai Brashman was 44 this year and would die in a further 26 years.
I J Bienaymé was 44 this year and would die in a further 38 years.
Jean-Marie Duhamel was 43 this year and would die in a further 32 years.
Jean Claude Saint-Venant was 43 this year and would die in a further 46 years.
Félix Savary was 43 this year and would die the following year.
Pierre-Joseph-Étienne Finck was 43 this year and would die in a further 30 years.
Karl G C von Staudt was 42 this year and would die in a further 27 years.
Christoph Gudermann was 42 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Étienne Bobillier was 42 this year and died this year.
Franz Neumann was 42 this year and would die in a further 55 years.
Heinrich Scherk was 42 this year and would die in a further 45 years.
Emile Clapeyron was 41 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Karl Gräffe was 41 this year and would die in a further 33 years.
Henry Fox Talbot was 40 this year and would die in a further 37 years.
Thomas Clausen was 39 this year and would die in a further 45 years.
Julius Plücker was 39 this year and would die in a further 28 years.
George Airy was 39 this year and would die in a further 52 years.
Antoine Cournot was 39 this year and would die in a further 37 years.
Mikhail Ostrogradski was 39 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
Joseph Plateau was 39 this year and would die in a further 43 years.
János Bolyai was 38 this year and would die in a further 20 years.
Guglielmo Libri was 37 this year and would die in a further 29 years.
Charles-François Sturm was 37 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Giusto Bellavitis was 37 this year and would die in a further 40 years.
Christian Doppler was 37 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Wilhelm Weber was 36 this year and would die in a further 51 years.
Pierre Verhulst was 36 this year and would die in a further 9 years.
Carl Jacobi was 36 this year and would die in a further 11 years.
Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovskii was 36 this year and would die in a further 49 years.
George Jerrard was 36 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Edward Sang was 35 this year and would die in a further 50 years.
Lejeune Dirichlet was 35 this year and would die in a further 19 years.
William Rowan Hamilton was 35 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
Ferdinand Minding was 34 this year and would die in a further 45 years.
Thomas Kirkman was 34 this year and would die in a further 55 years.
Augustus De Morgan was 34 this year and would die in a further 31 years.
Julius Weisbach was 34 this year and would die in a further 31 years.
Józeph Petzval was 33 this year and would die in a further 51 years.
Johann Benedict Listing was 32 this year and would die in a further 42 years.
Athanase Dupré was 32 this year and would die in a further 29 years.
John Scott Russell was 32 this year and would die in a further 42 years.
Philip Kelland was 32 this year and would die in a further 39 years.
Hermann Grassmann was 31 this year and would die in a further 37 years.
Joseph Liouville was 31 this year and would die in a further 42 years.
Benjamin Peirce was 31 this year and would die in a further 40 years.
John Pratt was 31 this year and would die in a further 31 years.
Luigi Menabrea was 31 this year and would die in a further 56 years.
James MacCullagh was 31 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Eduard Kummer was 30 this year and would die in a further 53 years.
Urbain Le Verrier was 29 this year and would die in a further 37 years.
Otto Hesse was 29 this year and would die in a further 34 years.
Li Shanlan was 29 this year and would die in a further 42 years.
William Shanks was 28 this year and would die in a further 42 years.
Adolph Göpel was 28 this year and would die in a further 7 years.
Robert Anstice was 27 this year and would die in a further 13 years.
Duncan Gregory was 27 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
Pierre Laurent was 27 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Ludwig Schläfli was 26 this year and would die in a further 55 years.
Eugène Catalan was 26 this year and would die in a further 54 years.
James Joseph Sylvester was 26 this year and would die in a further 57 years.
Pierre Wantzel was 26 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Fernando Pio Rosellini was 26 this year and would die in a further 32 years.
George Boole was 25 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Karl Weierstrass was 25 this year and would die in a further 57 years.
Augusta Ada Byron was 25 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Osip Somov was 25 this year and would die in a further 36 years.
Jean Frenet was 24 this year and would die in a further 60 years.
Charles Delaunay was 24 this year and would die in a further 32 years.
Johann G Rosenhain was 24 this year and would die in a further 47 years.
Rudolf Wolf was 24 this year and would die in a further 53 years.
William Ferrel was 23 this year and would die in a further 51 years.
Carl Borchardt was 23 this year and would die in a further 40 years.
Charles Briot was 23 this year and would die in a further 42 years.
Angelo Genocchi was 23 this year and would die in a further 49 years.
Ferdinand Joachimsthal was 22 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
John Couch Adams was 21 this year and would die in a further 52 years.
Siegfried Aronhold was 21 this year and would die in a further 44 years.
George Stokes was 21 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
Joseph A Serret was 21 this year and would die in a further 45 years.
Jean-Claude Bouquet was 21 this year and would die in a further 45 years.
George Salmon was 21 this year and would die in a further 64 years.
Pierre Bonnet was 21 this year and would die in a further 52 years.
Léon Foucault was 21 this year and would die in a further 28 years.
Victor Puiseux was 20 this year and would die in a further 43 years.
William Rankine was 20 this year and would die in a further 32 years.
Ernest de Jonquières was 20 this year and would die in a further 61 years.
Isaac Todhunter was 20 this year and would die in a further 44 years.
Florence Nightingale was 20 this year and would die in a further 70 years.
William Chauvenet was 20 this year and would die in a further 30 years.
Eduard Heine was 19 this year and would die in a further 41 years.
Pafnuty Chebyshev was 19 this year and would die in a further 54 years.
Arthur Cayley was 19 this year and would die in a further 55 years.
Hermann von Helmholtz was 19 this year and would die in a further 54 years.
Philipp von Seidel was 19 this year and would die in a further 56 years.
Rudolf Clausius was 18 this year and would die in a further 48 years.
Francis Galton was 18 this year and would die in a further 71 years.
Lissajous was 18 this year and would die in a further 40 years.
Joseph Bertrand was 18 this year and would die in a further 60 years.
Charles Hermite was 18 this year and would die in a further 61 years.
Jules Hoüel was 17 this year and would die in a further 46 years.
Gotthold Eisenstein was 17 this year and would die in a further 12 years.
Oscar Schlömilch was 17 this year and would die in a further 61 years.
Enrico Betti was 17 this year and would die in a further 52 years.
Jacob Amsler was 17 this year and would die in a further 72 years.
Leopold Kronecker was 17 this year and would die in a further 51 years.
August Yulevich Davidov was 17 this year and would die in a further 45 years.
Hugh Blackburn was 17 this year and would die in a further 69 years.
Delfino Codazzi was 16 this year and would die in a further 33 years.
Gustav Kirchhoff was 16 this year and would die in a further 47 years.
William Thomson was 16 this year and would die in a further 67 years.
Francesco Brioschi was 16 this year and would die in a further 57 years.
Zacharias Dase was 16 this year and would die in a further 21 years.
George Allman was 16 this year and would die in a further 64 years.
Johann Balmer was 15 this year and would die in a further 58 years.
Carl Bjerknes was 15 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
William Spottiswoode was 15 this year and would die in a further 43 years.
Vashchenko-Zakharchenko was 15 this year and would die in a further 72 years.
Faà di Bruno was 15 this year and would die in a further 48 years.
John James Walker was 15 this year and would die in a further 60 years.
Guiseppe Battaglini was 14 this year and would die in a further 54 years.
Ernst Meissel was 14 this year and would die in a further 55 years.
Bernhard Riemann was 14 this year and would die in a further 26 years.
Henry Smith was 14 this year and would die in a further 43 years.
Christian Wiener was 14 this year and would die in a further 56 years.
Morgan Crofton was 14 this year and would die in a further 75 years.
Charles Merrifield was 13 this year and would die in a further 44 years.
Henry Watson was 13 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
Samuel Roberts was 13 this year and would die in a further 73 years.
Karl Peterson was 12 this year and would die in a further 41 years.
Giuseppe Bruno was 12 this year and would die in a further 53 years.
Heinrich Schröter was 11 this year and would die in a further 52 years.
Moritz Cantor was 11 this year and would die in a further 80 years.
Elwin Christoffel was 11 this year and would die in a further 60 years.
Joseph Wolstenholme was 11 this year and would die in a further 51 years.
Thomas Hirst was 10 this year and would die in a further 52 years.
Luigi Cremona was 10 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
Thomas Bond Sprague was 10 this year and would die in a further 80 years.
Edward Routh was 9 this year and would die in a further 67 years.
P G Tait was 9 this year and would die in a further 61 years.
Amédée Mannheim was 9 this year and would die in a further 66 years.
Richard Dedekind was 9 this year and would die in a further 76 years.
James Clerk Maxwell was 9 this year and would die in a further 39 years.
Paul du Bois-Reymond was 9 this year and would die in a further 49 years.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was 8 this year and would die in a further 58 years.
Carl Neumann was 8 this year and would die in a further 85 years.
Rudolf Lipschitz was 8 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
Edmond Bour was 8 this year and would die in a further 26 years.
Ludwig Sylow was 8 this year and would die in a further 78 years.
Eugène Rouché was 8 this year and would die in a further 70 years.
Alfred Clebsch was 7 this year and would die in a further 32 years.
Lazarus Fuchs was 7 this year and would die in a further 62 years.
Edmond Laguerre was 6 this year and would die in a further 46 years.
John Venn was 6 this year and would die in a further 83 years.
Erastus De Forest was 6 this year and would die in a further 48 years.
Simon Newcomb was 5 this year and would die in a further 69 years.
Josef Stefan was 5 this year and would die in a further 53 years.
Emile Mathieu was 5 this year and would die in a further 50 years.
Stanley Jevons was 5 this year and would die in a further 42 years.
Charles Méray was 5 this year and would die in a further 71 years.
Eugenio Beltrami was 5 this year and would die in a further 60 years.
Felice Casorati was 5 this year and would die in a further 50 years.
Howard Van Amringe was 5 this year and would die in a further 75 years.
Artemas Martin was 5 this year and would die in a further 78 years.
James Moriarty was 5 this year and would die in a further 51 years.
Julius Weingarten was 4 this year and would die in a further 70 years.
Paul Gordan was 3 this year and would die in a further 72 years.
Paul Bachmann was 3 this year and would die in a further 80 years.
Wilhelm Lexis was 3 this year and would die in a further 74 years.
Joseph Tilly was 3 this year and would die in a further 66 years.
Nicolai Vasilievich Bugaev was 3 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
Leo Königsberger was 3 this year and would die in a further 81 years.
Camille Jordan was 2 this year and would die in a further 82 years.
George Hill was 2 this year and would die in a further 74 years.
Theodor Reye was 2 this year and would die in a further 79 years.
Thorvald Thiele was 2 this year and would die in a further 70 years.
Jeno Hunyadi was 2 this year and would die in a further 49 years.
Edwin Abbott Abbott was 2 this year and would die in a further 86 years.
J Willard Gibbs was 1 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
Hermann Hankel was 1 this year and would die in a further 33 years.
Adolph Mayer was 1 this year and would die in a further 67 years.
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen was 1 this year and would die in a further 80 years.
Joseph-Emile Barbier was 1 this year and would die in a further 49 years.
Julius Petersen was 1 this year and would die in a further 70 years.
Charles S Peirce was 1 this year and would die in a further 74 years.
Francesco Siacci was 1 this year and would die in a further 67 years.
Gustav Roch was 1 this year and would die in a further 26 years.
Franz Mertens' was born this year and would die in a further 87 years.
Joseph Neuberg was born this year and would die in a further 86 years.
Emile Lemoine was born this year and would die in a further 72 years.
Carl Johannes Thomae was born this year and would die in a further 81 years.
Olaus Henrici was born this year and would die in a further 78 years.
Ernst Abbe was born this year and would die in a further 65 years.
Emory McClintock was born this year and would die in a further 76 years.
Robert Ball was born this year and would die in a further 73 years.

There were 257 mathematicians in our archive alive in the year 1840.


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