ORGANIZATION

Founded 1865, Royal Charter in 1965.

• Polya Prize
• Berwick Prize

Official Website:
http://www.lms.ac.uk/

Founding Date:
1865

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Michael Atiyah	Mathematician	22-Apr-1929		Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Georg Cantor	Mathematician	3-Mar-1845	6-Jan-1918	Founder of set theory
Élie Cartan	Mathematician	9-Apr-1869	6-May-1951	Spinor groups
Henri Cartan	Mathematician	8-Jul-1904	13-Aug-2008	Leader of the math Bourbakistes
Sydney Chapman	Mathematician	29-Jan-1888	16-Jun-1970	Geomagnetism
Israel Gelfand	Mathematician	2-Sep-1913	5-Oct-2009	Banach algebras, Lie groups
Kurt Gödel	Mathematician	28-Apr-1906	14-Jan-1978	Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard	Mathematician	8-Dec-1865	17-Oct-1963	Prime number theorem
David Hilbert	Mathematician	23-Jan-1862	14-Feb-1943	Hilbert Space
Tullio Levi-Civita	Mathematician	29-Mar-1873	29-Dec-1941	Explored tensor calculus and PDE's
E. Arthur Milne	Mathematician	14-Feb-1896	21-Sep-1950	Kinematic relativity
Roger Penrose	Mathematician	8-Aug-1931		Theory of cosmic censorship
Lord Rayleigh	Physicist	12-Nov-1842	30-Jun-1919	Why the sky is blue
Bertrand Russell	Mathematician	18-May-1872	2-Feb-1970	Mathematician, atheist, and social critic
Waclaw Sierpinski	Mathematician	14-Mar-1882	21-Oct-1969	Sierpinski's gasket
Ian Stewart	Mathematician	24-Sep-1945		Catastrophe theory
John von Neumann	Mathematician	28-Dec-1903	8-Feb-1957	Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory

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