Category
page 1Recreational mathematicians
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

Ernő Rubik
Hungarian inventor (born 1944)
Martin Gardner
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
John Horton Conway
English mathematician (1937–2020)
Piet Hein
20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet (1905–1996)

Daniel Tammet
British writer, mathematician, essayist and autistic savant

Douglas Hofstadter
American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science
Édouard Lucas
French mathematician (1842–1891)
Raymond Smullyan
American mathematician (1919–2017)

Bram Cohen
American programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol
D. R. Kaprekar
Indian mathematician (1905–1986)

Sam Loyd
American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician (1841–1911)
Yakov Perelman
Russian science writer (1882–1942)
Ian Stewart
mathematician and author
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Canadian mathematician (1907–2003)
Henry Dudeney
puzzlist and mathematical games designer (1857–1930)
Richard K. Guy
British mathematician (1916-2020)
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
English mathematician (1912-2014)
Solomon W. Golomb
American mathematician (1932–2016)
Martin David Kruskal
American mathematician (1925-2006)
W. W. Rouse Ball
English mathematician and lawyer (1850–1925)
Bill Gosper
American mathematician, programmer/hacker
David Singmaster
British mathematician
Erik Demaine
Canadian computer scientist and sculptor (born 1981)
Matt Parker
Australian comedian and math communicator
Júlio César de Mello e Souza
Brazilian mathematician (1895–1974)

Leo Moser
Canadian mathematician (1921–1970)
David Eppstein
British-American computer scientist
Vi Hart
American recreational mathematician
Maria Antònia Canals i Tolosa
Catalan mathematician
Wilhelm Ahrens
German mathematician (1872–1927)
Robert Abbott
Game inventor

Jean-Paul Delahaye
French mathematician, computer scientist
Ross Honsberger
Canadian mathematician (1929–2016)
Maurice Kraitchik
Belgian mathematician
Robert Ammann
American mathematician (*1946 – †1994)
Boris Kordemsky
Russian mathematician (1907–1999)
Alexander Dewdney
Canadian mathematician (1941–2024)
Masahiko Fujiwara
Japanese mathematician
Chaim Goodman-Strauss
American mathematician
Thomas von Randow
German mathematician (1921–2009)

Alexander Bogomolny
Soviet-born Israeli American mathematician
Scott Kim
American artist and writer