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Gravestones and Commemorative Markers
of Mathematicians and Physicists, preferrably with formula
Collections
- Tote Mathematiker in Göttingen by Florian Freistetter / 7. August 2016 (Gauß, Hilbert et al., in German)
- Monuments on Mathematicians, graves of 84 and epitaphs of 18 mathematicians, with descriptions in English
- 90+ mathematicians on findagrave.com (Thank you, Paolo!)
Individuals
- Niels Henrik Abel (1802 - 1829), Froland Cemetery, Norway
- Roger Apéry (1916 - 1994), cimetière de Père Lachaise, Paris, with his summation formula
- Jacobus Bernoulli (note the spiral at the bottom)
- Etienne Bezout
- Max Born, Göttingen, with his formula
- Georg Cantor
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857), cimetière de Sceaux, France
- Ulisse Dini (1845-1918), Pisa (in French, at the bottom)
- Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984), in Westminster Abbey, London, with
- Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783), Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Pierre de Fermat (1607 - 1665) , burial plaque in Castres, France, with his last theorem pour
- Sophie Germain, Père Lachaise, Paris
- Kurt Gödel (1906 - 1978), Princeton, New Jersey, USA ([cf. findagrave.com)
- Felix Haussdorff, Bonn-Poppelsdorf
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018), Westminster Abbey, London, with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy equation
- Ferdinand von Lindemann, memorial in Hannover and gravestone in Munich with π (he proved in 1822 that π is transcendental).
- Ivan Georgijewitsch Petrowsky at Novodevichy cemetery, Moscow, with partial differential equation
- [1] Bernhard Georg Friedrich Riemann] (1826 - 1866), Cimitero di Biganzolo di Selasca
Verbania, Piemonte, Italy
- Ludwig Schläfli, PDF (in German), page 177.
- James Stirling (1692 - 1770) in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh
- Ludolph van Ceulen (1540 - 1610), German-Dutch mathematician who computed π to 35 decimals
- Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (1891-1983) at Novodevichy cemetery, Moscow