Some famous University of Edinburgh Mathematicians
The list of famous mathematicians associated to the University of Edinburgh includes
- Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746)
- Thomas Bayes (1702-1761)
- Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901)
- Sir Edmund Whittaker (1873-1956)
- Alexander Aitken (1895-1967)
- Sir William Hodge (1903-1973)
- William Edge (1904-1997)
- Ian Porteous (1931-2011)
- Sir Michael Atiyah (1929- )