WAida Yasuaki also known as Aida Ammei, was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period.
WDaniel Bernoulli FRS was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family from Basel. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. His name is commemorated in the Bernoulli's principle, a particular example of the conservation of energy, which describes the mathematics of the mechanism underlying the operation of two important technologies of the 20th century: the carburetor and the airplane wing.
WRoger Joseph Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. He studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works.
WErland Samuel Bring was a Swedish mathematician.
WJean-Louis Calandrini was a Genevan scientist. He was a professor of mathematics and philosophy. He was the author of some studies on the aurora borealis, comets, and the effects of lightning, as well as of an important but unpublished work on flat and spherical trigonometry. He also wrote a commentary on the Principia of Isaac Newton, for which he wrote approximately one hundred footnotes.
WGabriel Cramer was a Genevan mathematician. He was the son of physician Jean Cramer and Anne Mallet Cramer.
WJosé Anastácio da Cunha was a Portuguese mathematician. He is best known for his work on the theory of equations, algebraic analysis, plain and spherical trigonometry, analytical geometry, and differential calculus.
WAnton Felkel was an Austrian mathematician who worked on the determination of prime numbers.
WNicola Fergola (1753–1824) was an Italian mathematician, professor in the university of Naples.
WSamuel Klingenstierna was a very renowned Swedish mathematician and scientist. He started his career as a lawyer but soon moved to natural philosophy. Already as a student he gave lectures on the then novel mathematical analysis of Newton and Leibniz. Klingenstierna was professor of geometry in Uppsala University from 1728. In 1750 he moved to physics but retired two years later to become an advisor to the Commander of Artillery. In 1756 he assumed the post of the tutor of the Crown Prince, the future king Gustav III.
WAnders Johan Lexell was a Finnish-Swedish astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who spent most of his life in Imperial Russia, where he was known as Andrei Ivanovich Leksel.
WAntonio Maria Lorgna (1735-1796) or Antonio Mario Lorgna was a mathematician from Italy in the 18th century, founder of the Accademia nazionale delle scienze.
WCharles-Benjamin de Langes de Montmirail, baron de Lubières, 1714, Berlin – 1 June 1790, was a Genevan mathematician.
WMinggatu, full name Sharavyn Myangat was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and topographic scientist at the Qing court. His courtesy name was Jing An (静安).
WJosé Celestino Bruno Mutis y Bosio was a Spanish priest, botanist and mathematician. He was a significant figure in the Spanish American Enlightenment, whom Alexander von Humboldt met with on his expedition to Spanish America. He is one of the most important authors of the Spanish Universalist School of the 18th century, together with Juan Andrés or Antonio Eximeno.
WPieter Nieuwland was a Dutch nautical scientist, chemist, mathematician, and poet. During his life he was known as a child prodigy and has been called the Dutch Isaac Newton.
WPietro Paoli was an Italian mathematician.
WFerdinando Piretti was an Italian mathematician. He lived at the San Vitale monastery in Ravenna and later at the San Benedetto monastery in Ferrara.
WMarcin Odlanicki Poczobutt was a Polish–Lithuanian Jesuit, astronomer and mathematician. He was professor of Vilnius University for over 50 years, serving as its rector from 1780 to 1799. The Poczobutt crater on the Moon is named after him.
WJohann Segner was a Hungarian scientist. He was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, in the former Hungarian capital city of Pozsony.
WEdmund Stone was an autodidact mathematician from Scotland in the 18th century.
WGiuseppe Suzzi was an Italian mathematician and abbot.
WCharles-Marie-Thérèse-Léon de Tinseau d'Amondans de Gennes (1748-1822) was a military engineer and mathematician from France in the 18th century.
WWilliam Trail or Traill DD LLD FRSE MRIA was an 18th/19th century Scots-born mathematician, remembered for his mathematical text books. For the majority of his life he served church duties in Northern Ireland.
WBaron Jurij Bartolomej Vega was a Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer.
WProf Nicolas Vilant FRSE (1737-1807) was a mathematician from Scotland in the 18th century, known for his textbooks. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.