List of amateur mathematicians
From Academic Kids
This is a list of people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics (or any similar discipline) yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics.
- Robert Ammann (programmer and postal worker)
- Harlan J. Brothers (teacher and inventor)
- Sir James Cockle (judge)
- Martin Demaine (goldsmith and glass artist)
- Benjamin Franklin (statesman)
- Hermann Grassmann (school teacher)
- James A. Garfield (politician)
- Kurt Heegner (high school teacher)
- F. H. Jackson (navy chaplain)
- Alfred Bray Kempe (lawyer)
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw (politician)
- Marjorie Rice (homemaker)
- Gaston Terry (civil servant)
See also mathematician.
