List of mathematicians who studied chess
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Chess and mathematics have been pursued intellectually for centuries by many researchers and scientists, especially mathematicians. Naturally, the logic and symmetry in chess appeal to mathematicians. The following mathematicians either played or studied chess in their life:
- George Airy
- Adolf Anderssen
- Henry Atkins
- George Atwood
- Harry Bateman
- Jacob Bronowski
- Max Black
- Jerome Cardan
- Lewis Carroll
- Henry Dudeney
- Albert Einstein
- Noam Elkies
- Leonhard Euler
- Max Euwe
- Martin Gardner
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- G. H. Hardy
- David Hilbert
- Kurt Hirsch
- Maurice Kendall
- Paul Keres
- Emanuel Lasker
- Sam Loyd
- Theodor Molien
- Frank Morley
- Simon Newcomb
- Maxwell Newman
- Emmy Noether
- John Nunn
- Roger Penrose
- Jakob Rosanes
- George Salmon
- Claude E. Shannon
- Raymond Smullyan
- Norman Steenrod
- Thorvald Thiele
- Alan Turing
- Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
- Ernst Zermelo
- Konrad Zuse
Many researchers who had some interest in chess did not have formal training in mathematics. However, they either contributed to mathematics or used mathematics in their profession. They were philosophers, physicists, chemists, engineers, etc. Here is a partial list:
- Friedrich Amelung
- Eero Böök
- Werner Heisenberg
- Edward Lasker
- Milan Vidmar
- Milan Vukcevich
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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