This guide includes most  mathematicians and mathematical terms that are encountered in high school and college.  Pronunciations of proper names are generally given as pronounced as in the original language.
        Some entries are obscure and may  be useful only in a game of mathematical trivia, e. g. d'Alembert's mother, the name of the line in a fraction, or the man who shot Galois.  I have not  included most definitions or accomplishments.  The curious person may try searching the internet for such information. 
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A

abacus         'ab uh kuhss
     abaci       'ab uh sigh         or         abacuses       'ab uh kuhss uhs

abbacus         'ab uh kuhss

Edwin A. Abbot         1838-1926        'ed wuhn  'ab uht

Niels Henrik Abel     1802-29     nils (not nilz) 'hen rik  'ah buhl  (roll the r) 

Abelian          uh 'beel yuhn

abscissa         ab 'sis suh

absolute         'ab suh loot

abundant          uh 'buhn duhnt

acceleration         ak 'sil uh 'ray shun

Achilles          uh 'ki leez

W. Ackerman        ? ak uhr muhn

Acta Mathematica         'ahk tah    maht he mah 'tee kah

Acta Eruditorum         'ahk tah    ay roo dee 'toh rum

acute         uh 'kyoot

John Quincy Adams        1767-1848         jahn  'kwint see  ad uhms

add       ad

addend        'a dend

addition       uh 'di shuhn

additive        'ad uh tiv

ad infinitum       ad in fuh 'night uhm      Latin:  ahd ihn fee 'nee tum

adjacent        uh 'jay suhnt

Leonard Adleman        fl. 1977

Alfred Adler        ? 'al fred 'ahd luhr

Ad locus planos et solidos isagoge      (Fermat)     ahd  'loh kuhs  'plahn ohs  et
                                          'soh lih duhs  ihs ah 'goh ge

affine        a 'fyn

a fortiori        ah  for tee 'oh ree

Maria Gaetana Agnesi       1718-99        'mah ree ah  ,gah ay 'tah nah
                                                                                  an 'yay zee
aha        (noun)            ah 'hah

Ahmes     seventeenth century  B.C.      'ah mess     or    'ah meez
     Ahmes Papyrus        'ah mess   puh 'py ruhs

Howard Hathaway Aiken       1906-0973     'how uhrd   'hath uh way   'ay kin '

Alabama        al uh 'bam uh

Leone Battista Alberti       1404-72     lay 'ohn nay   bah 'tees tah   'ahl ber tee

al-Biruni        973-1048    ,al  bee 'roo nee
        (Abu ar-Rayhan Muhammed ibn Ahmad al-Biruni)

Alcuin of York        fl.c775         'al kwin  yohrk

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert       1717-83     zhahn luh roh(n)dah lah(n) ber

aleph         'ah ,lif
     aleph null         'ah ,lef  nuhl
     (also aleph naught, aleph nought, aleph zero)
                     ( naht,     naht,    'zee ,roh)

John Alexander       fl. 1928         al eg 'zan duhr

algebra        'al juh bruh

Algebra        (Bombelli)

algebraic        al juh 'bray ik

algebraist           al ju 'bray ist

algorist           'al guh rist

algorithm        'al guh rith uhm

Algorithmi de numero Indorum     (al-Khwarizmi)

aliquant        'al uh kwahnt

aliquot      'al uh kwaht

Al-jabr wa'l muqabalah     (al-Khwarizmi)

al-Kash of Samarkand        fl. 1424

Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi      c800-c850        al khwahr 'iz mee
                           (also al-Khowarizime)           (ahl KHoh wah reez me)

allometry        uh 'lahm uh tree

Almagest    (Ptolomy)         'al muh jest

al-Mamun        786-833      al mah 'moon
    (also al-Mamoun)

alpha         'al fuh         alpha = α (lower case) = Α (uppercase)

alphameric           ,al fuh 'mehr ik

alphanumeric           ,al fuh ,nu 'mehr ik

amicable            'am uh kuh bel
        amicable numbers           'am uh kuh bel    'nuhm buhrz

André Marie Ampère          1775-1836        ah(n) dray  maw ree  ah(n) 'pair

ampere       'am pir

analysis            uh 'nal us suhs

analytic           ,an uhl 'id ik

analytical engine           ,an uhl 'id ik uhl   'en juhn

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae     ?500-428     an ak 'sag uh ruhs   kluh 'zahm uh nee

Anaximander of Miletus        c610- c545       an 'ak si 'man dur    my 'lee tuhs

George W Eyre Andrews           1938-     jorg        'and rooz

angle        'a[ng] guhl

Anders Jones Ångström      1814-74   'an duhsh  'yoo nahs  'aw[ng] str[oe]m
                                                                        English:    'a[ng] struhm

angstrom              'a[ng] struhm
        (also  Angstrom, ångstrom)

annulus        'an yuh luhss

antecedent        'an tuh ,seed uhnt

antiderivative        ,an ti di ,riv uhd iv

Antikythera            ,an ti ki 'theer uh

antilogarithm       an ti 'lahg uh rith uhm

François Apéry        fl. 1984

aphelion       uh 'feel yun

Petrus Apianus           1501-52         ap i 'ay nuhs     or    ay pi 'ay nuhs
                                                         German:    ah pee 'ah nus
apogee          'ap ah jee

Apollonius of Perga  (also Perge)     c262-c200   a paw 'loh nee uhs   'per guh (perj)

a posteriori        ah  'paw ste ree 'oh ree

apothecary          uh 'pawth uh kair ee

apothem         'ap uh them

Kenneth Appel         1932-

apportion         uh 'pohr shuhn

approval         uh 'proo vuhl

approximate    (adjective)       uh 'prahk suh mit

approximate    (verb)        uh 'prahk suh mayt

approximation        uh ,prahk suh may shuhn

a priori         ,ah pree 'oh ree

Arabic numerals             'air uh bik   'noom ruhls

Domïnique François Jean Arago   1786-1853  daw mee neek  zhahn  ah rah goh
                                                                     English:    'ar uh ,goh
arbelos

John Arbuthnot        1667-1735        jon   ar 'buth nuht

arc         ahrk

Archimedes of Syracuse       c287-12        ahr ki 'mee deez     'sir uh kyooz

Archimedian          ahr kuh 'mee dee ahn

Archytas of Tarentum        428-365         ahr 'ky tuhs    tuh 'ren tuhm

are   (SI unit)     ayr

area         'ar ee uh

Jean Robert Argand        1768-1822         ahr gah(n)

Adrian Argoli        1570-1675        

Aristarchus of Samos        c310-c250         ar i 'stahr kuhs     'say mahs

Aristotelian          ar ,iss tah ,teel yan

Aristotle        384-22         'ar uh stahtuhl

arithmetic    (noun)         uh 'rith muh ,tik

arithmetic    (adjective)       ,a rith ,med ik

Arithmetica        (Diophantus)

armillary         'ahr muh ,lehr ee

Vladimir Arnold         fl. 1960

array         uh 'ray

Kenneth Arrow         fl. 1952

Richard Askey         as kee

Ars Conjectandi        (Jakob Bernoulli)

Ars Magna        (Cardano)
        (Artis magne sive de regulis algebraicis)

Emil Artin        1898-1962        'e mil    'ahr tin

Arya-Bhata (or Aryabhata)  I (the elder)     ?476-550     'ahr yuh 'bhut uh

Arya-Bhata (or Aryabhata)  II      920-c1000     'ahr yuh 'bhut uh

Aschauliche Geometric        (Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen)

astragalus         as 'truhg uh luhs

astragali        as 'truhg uh lye

astroid        'as troyd

asymmetric         ay suh 'me trik

asymptote         'a sim toht

asymptotic        ,a sim 'tah tik

Derek Atkins         fl. 1994

Attalus         c269-197          'a tuh luhs

atto-        'a ,toh

attractor         uh 'trak tuhr
     strange attractor        straynj   uh 'trak tuhr

augend           'aw jend

St. Augustine         354-450       saynt   'aw gus teen

average       'av rij

avoirdupois      ,a vuhr duh 'poyz             c.f. Galois

axes    (plural of axis)       'ak seez

axiom         'ak see uhm

axiomatic            'ak see uhm 'a tik

axiomatization            'ak see ,ah muh tuh 'zay shuhn

axis        'ak suhss

Hannah Ayscough        'as koo

B

Claude Gaspard de Bachet de Méziriac        1591-1639

Paul Gustav Heinrich bachmann        1837-1920        'powl   'gus ,tahf   'hin reeKH  'bahKH mahn

R. Backlund

René-Louis  Baire        1874-1932         ruh nay  lwee   ber

Per Bak

Henry F. Baker         'bay kuhr

Bakhshali         bahk shah lee

R. Balasubramanian

Michel Balinski

Stefan Banach         1892-1945       'ste fahn   'bah nahKH

Leon Bankoff

John Banzhaf

Peter Barlow            1776-1862            'pee tuhr   'bahr loh

Michael Barnsley

Isaac Barrow         1630-77          'bair oh

Johann Bartels

Francis Beaufort        1774-1857        'fran siss    'boh fuhrt

Florimund de Beaune        1601-52        'floh ree muhnt    de    bohn

Eugenio Beltrami        fl. 1868

Eric Temple Bell        1883-1960        'er ik     'tem pl      bel

Bishop George Berkeley        1685-1753        'bish uhp   jorj   'bahr klee     or    'berk lee

Bernoulli         bur 'noo lee
         Daniel       1700-82
         Jacob (Jacques, James)       1654-1705
         Johann (Johannes, Jean, John)        1667-1748
         Nicolaus       1687-1759

     Bernoulli's law

Felix Bernstein        1878-1956        'fay liks     'bern shtyn

G. G. Berry
     Berry's paradox

Joseph L. F. Bertrand

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel        1784-1846        'fRee driKH  'vil ,helm   'bess uhl

beta        'bay duh         beta = β (lower case) = Β (uppercase)

Hans Albrecht Bethe        1906-2005        'hahns  'ahl bre[CH]t    'bay tuh

bezant          'bez ent

Pierre Bézier       1910-1999         bez ee ay

Étienne Bézout       1730-83         ay tyen   bay zoh

Bhaskara        1114-c1185         'bhah skur
        (also  Bhaskaracharya)         'bhah skuh rah 'chahr yuh 

Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach        1886-1982         'loot viKH    gay 'orKH    ay 'lee ahs   'moh zes   bee bur bahk
     Bieberbach conjecture

bifurcation         by 'fuhr kay shuhn

bilateral          'by lad uh ruhl

Jacques de Billy        1602-1679         zhahk   bee yee

binary         'by nuh ree

Jacque Philippe Marie Binet         1786-1856         zhahk   fee leep   ma ree  ,bee 'ne  (English:  bee 'nay)

binomial        by 'noh mee ahl

George David Birkhoff        1884-1944         jorj   'day vid   'bur  kawf

bit        bit

H. F. Blichfeldt

Manuel Blum

Ludwig Otto Blumenthal        1876-1944            'loot vi[KH]  'o toh   'bloo muhn ,tahl

Johann Elert Bode         1747-1826       'boh de

Niels Henrik David Bohr         1885-1962        bohr

Ludwig Boltzman        1844-1906            'bohlt smahn

Farkas Wolfgang Bólyai       1775-1856         'fahr kahsh   'volf  gahng   'bahl yah ee

János Bólyai        1802-60          'yah nohsh   'bahl yoy

Bernard Bolzano        1781-1848          'ber nahrd    bohlt 'sah noh

Rafael Bombelli         1526-72

Napoleon Bonaparte        'boh nuh part

George Boole        1815-64        bool

Boolean         'boo lee uhn

Jean-Charles de Borda        1733-99

Émile Felix-Édouard-Justin Borel        1871-1956       ay meel   fay leeks   ay dwahr   zh[oe] sta(n)   bo rel
                                                                                                                                                              with o between o in move and o in song

Giovanni Borelli         fl. 1680

K. V. Borodzin

Sandro Bottecelli         1444-1510        'boht tee tshel lee
                                                              English:   bawt ih 'chel ee

Pierre Bouguer         1698-1758            pee ,air   boo gair

Nicolas Bourbaki         1934 -?               boor bah ,kee

Natheniel Bowditch        1773-1838        nuh 'than yuhl   'bow  dich   bow as in cow not know

Rufus Bowen

Werner Boy

Carl B. Boyer

Robert Boyle         1627-91         boyl

bra         brah 

brachistochrone (or brachystochrone)      brah 'kist o krohn

James Bradley        1693-1762

Tycho Brahe        1546-1601       'ty koh   'brah uh         English:  brah

Brahmagupta        598-after665

Henry Briggs        1561-1630

Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard        1845-1922       pyer   ruh nay   zhah(n)   bah teest   ah(n) ree   ,braw 'kahr

Louis Victor Pierre Raymond duc de Broglie       1892-1987               lwee    veek tor    pyer   ray mo(n)   d[oe]k   duh ,bRo 'gle'

Lord Brouncker         1620-84

Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer        1881-1966       'brow uhr

N. G. de Bruijn

V. Brun

Geodarno H. Bruno         1548-1600         'broo noh

brute         broot

Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon         1707-88       zhawrzh loo ee luh klar
                                                  koh(n)t duh b[ue](n) 'foh(n)

Ugo Buoncompagni

Joost (Jobst) Bürgi        1552-1632      yohst (yohpst)  'b[ue]r gee
                                                        English:     'buhr gee

busy beaver         'biz ee 'bee vuhr

Johannes Buteo  (Jean Borrel)       c1492-c1568

Augusta Ada Byron Countess of Lovelace        1815-52

byte          bight

C

Calcul des Probabilities        (Bertrand)

the calculus        'kal kyuh luhss

Chris K. Caldwell

calliope (the musical instrument)      'cal ee ,ohp

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philip Cantor       1845-1918        'gay orKH   fer dih 'nahnt   'loot viKH     feh 'lyeep  'kahn tawr

cap         kap

Girolamo Cardano (or Cardan)       1501-76        ja 'ro lam ,oh   kahr 'dah noh
        (Jerome Cardan, Hieronymus Cardanus)

cardinal        'kahrd nuhl

cardinality          ,kar duhn 'al ih tee

cardioid       'kahr dee oid

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat,  Marquis de Condorcet     1743-94     ma ree shahn   a(n) twan   nee ka  lah  de  ka ree ta   kohn dohr se 

Lazare Nicolas Marguérite Carnot        1753-1823        ,lah 'zahr   nee kaw lo   ,mahr ,guh 'reet   cahr 'noh

Sadi Nicolas Léonard Carnot                sa dee   nee kaw lo   lay aw nahr  ,kahr 'noh

Lewis Carroll       1856-98        'loo iss   'kar uhl

Elie Joseph Cartan       1869-1951        ay 'lee   zho 'zef   kar 'ta(n)

Henri Cartan       1904-2008        ah(n) ree   kar 'ta(n)

Cartesian        kahr 'tee zhuhn

Laurent Cassegrain        c1629-1693        law rah(n)   kahs gra(n)

catastrophe       kuh 'tass troh fee

category        'kad uh ,gawr ee

catenary        'katn ,ehr ee

Augustin-Louis Cauchy       1789-1857        coh shee

Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri       1598-1647        ,kav uh 'lyer ee

Henry Cavendish        1731-1810         'hen ree   'kav uhn ,dish

Arthur Cayley        1821-95        'kay lee

Eduard Cech        1893-1960          'ed u ahrt  'che[KH]

Anders Celsius        'sel see uhss

centi-        'sen  tih

centillion          sen 'til yuhn

Ernesto Cesaro        1859-1906         er 'nes toh    chay 'zah roh

Loudolph van Ceulen          1540-1610       loo dolf  vahn   'k[oe] len

Gregory Chaitin     1947-

chaos        'kay ahss

Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles        1746-1823          shahr

C. V. I. Charlier         fl. 1908

Emile du Chatelet         1706-49

R. Chen

chi         ky         chi = χ (lower case) = Χ (uppercase)

Chia chang suan-shu

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni        1756-1827          ernst   'floh rens   'free dri[KH]   'klahd ni

chooser          'choo ,zer

chord       kohrd

Chou pei suan ching

E. B. Christoffel        kris 'toh ful

Jakob Christmann        1554-1613        yah 'kawp   'kRist man

Chudakov

David & Gregory Chudnovsky

Nicolas Chuquet        1445-1488        'nee ko 'lah   shu 'kay

Chu Shih-chieh       c1280-1303

cipher         'sy fuhr

circle        'sur kuhl

circuit        'sur kit

circumcenter          'suhr kuhm ,sen tuhr

circumference         suhr 'kuhm fuh renss

circumscribe          'suhr kuhm ,skryb

cissoid        'siss oyd

Alexis Calude Clairaut       1713-65       kluh 'Roh

Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius        1822-88         'roo dolf    'yoo lee us  ih 'ma noo el   'klow zee uss

Christopher Clavius        1538-1612             'kla vee us

Rudolf Clebsch

clepsydra          'klep suh druh

William Kingdon Clifford        1845-79

clique        kleek   or  klik

coalition        koh uh 'lish uhn

coefficient         koh uh 'fish uhnt

Cogitata Physico-Mathematica    (Mersenne)

H. Cohen

Paul Cohen        1934-2007

Frank Nelson Cole

collapsible compass        kuhl 'lap suh buhl  'kuhm puhss

collegium        kuh 'leej ee uhm    Latin:  koh 'leg ee uhm

combinatorial          ,kahm buh nuh 'tohr ee uhl

compass           'kuhm puhss

compasses         (a singular word)           'kuhm puhs ez

Comptes Rendus

concentric        kuhn 'sen trik

conchoid         'kah[ng] koyd

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat,  Marquis de Condorcet     1743-94     ma ree shahn   a(n) twan   nee ka  lah  de  ka ree ta   kohn dohr se 

cone        kohn

confounding         kuhn 'fownd i[ng]

congruence            'kuhn ,groo uhns

conic        'kahn ik

conical          'kahn ih kuhl

conjecture          kuhn ,jek chur

conjugate          'kahn juh guht

Conon

continued          kuhn 'tin yood
        continued fraction        kuhn 'tin yood  'frak shuhn

continuous          kuhn 'tin yoo uhss

continuum        kuhn 'tin yoo uhm   or   kuhn 'tin yuh wuhm
     continuum hypothesis        kuhn 'tin yoo uhm   hy 'pahth uh siss

John Horton Conway

Stephen Cook

coordinate    (noun)         koh 'ord uh nuht

Copernican        koh 'pur ni kan

Nicolaus Copernicus (Latinized)       1473-1543         'nee koh lous    koh 'pur ni kuhss
        (Mikolaj Kopernik) (Polish)      mee 'kawl ,eye   kaw 'per neek 

cos         'koh syn

cosa         'koh suh

cosecant       'koh ,see kant

cosh         ,hy per ,bahl ik   'koh syn

cosine         'koh syn

Cotes        1682-1716

Charles Coulomb        1736-1806
        Coulomb's Law

countable          'kownt uh buhl

counterexample         'kownt uhr  egs 'am puhl

Harold Scott MacDonald (Donald) Coxeter        1907-1956        'kahk se tuhr

coyote        'ky oht

Gabriel Cramer           1704-52        'gahb ree ,uhl   'krahm uhr

                                                                              English:  'kray muhr

August Crelle           1780-1855        'kRel uh

critical          'krid uh kuhl

cross-cap          'krawss kap

cross product         krawss   'prah duhkt

crore          krawr

csc         cosecant

csch          hyperbolic cosecant

cube        kyoob

cubic          'kyoo bik

cubit           'kyoo bit

e. e. cummings

cuneiform         'kyoo nee uh ,form

cup          kuhp

curl         kerl

curtate          'kuhr tayt

curvature          'kuhr vuh chuhr

curve          kuhrv

cusp          kuhsp

cycloid       'sy ,kloyd

cylinder       'sil uhn duhr

Baron Clément Cyriaque de Mangin        1580-1643             ba ro(n)   klay mah(n)    ,see ,ree 'ahk   duh   ,mahn 'zhah(n)

D

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert        1717-83        dah lah(n) 'behr

Germinal Pierre Dandelin        1794-1847        ,zher ,mi 'nal    pyer   ,do(n)d 'la(n)

George Bernard Dantzig       1914-

Jean Gaston Darboux         1842-1917         zhan   ga to(n)   dar  boo

Charles Davies        1798-1876         chahrlz   'day veez

Leonardo da Vinci        dah 'veen chee

deadhead   (not about the Grateful Dead)

De analysi      (Newton)

Louis de Branges

Louis Victor de Broglie       1892-1987

N. G. de Bruijn

deca-          'dek uh

decagon         'dek uh gahn

decahedron        'dek uh 'hee druhn

deci-          'dess ih

decimal         'des muhl

decreasing        di 'kreess i[ng]

Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind        1831-1916        'day du kint

De Divina Proportione      (Pacioli & da Vinci)

deficient         di 'fi shunt

definite         'def uh nit

definition          def uh 'nish uhn

degenerate         di 'gen uh ruht

degree          di 'gree

Johannes de Groot        1914-72      yoh 'hahn ess   de  groot

del        del         Ñ

Jean Baptiste Delambre        1749-1882      zho(n)   'ba teest    duh lo(n) bruh

Scipione del Ferro          1465-1526

delta        'del tuh         delta = δ (lower case) = Δ (uppercase)

deltoid           'del ,toyd

De Mensura Sortis     (de Moivre)

Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de Méré      fl. 1654      an twahn    gohm bawd    shuh 'val "yay   de  may ray

De methodis fluxionum    (Newton)

Democritus       c 470-c 357     dee 'mok ri tus

Abraham de Moivre     1667-1754       duh 'mwah vruh

Augustus de Morgan        1806-71        duh 'mawr guhn

denominator        di 'nahm uh nayd uhr

dense         denss

dependent          di 'pen duhnt

depressed        di 'prest

deramgement         di 'raynj muht

De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium      (Copernicus)

derivative         duh 'riv uh div

Gérard Desargues        1593-1662        zhay 'rar   day 'zaRg

René Descartes        1596-1650         ren 'ay  day kahRt

Descriptio     (Napier)

descriptive         di 'skrip tiv

De Stella Nova      (Kepler)

Chevalier Destouches

Robert Devaney

deviation          'dee vee ay shuhn

d'Handt

Persi Diaconis

diameter          dy 'am uh duhr

Leonard Eugene Dickson         1874-1954

dictator          'dik tay tuhr

Denis Diderot        1713-84       duh nee   dee der 'oh

Princess Dido          'dee doh
     Dido's problem

differential         ,dif uh 'ren chuhl
     differential calculus

differentiate         ,dif uh 'ren chee ayt

digamma        dye 'gahm uh

digraph         'dy graf

dimension         duh 'men shuhn   or  dy 'men shuhn

diminisher         duh 'mi ni shuhr

Diophantine         dy uh 'fan tin

Diophantus of Alexandria    third century    dy oh 'fan tuhss   al eg 'zan dree uh

G. A. Dirac

Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac           1902-84        di rak

directrix          duh 'rek triks

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet     1805-59     'yoh hahn  'pay tuhr  'goos tahf  luh 'zhuhn  dee ree 'klay

            This is the German pronunciation which he probably used since he grew up in Germany.  However the name is of French origin and is sometimes pronounced  dee ree 'shlay.

discontinuity         dis ,kahnt uh 'noo uhd ee

discontinuous         dis kuhn 'tin yoo uhss

discrete          di 'skreet

discriminant          di 'skrim uh nuhnt

La Disme     (Stevin)

Disquisitiones Arithmeticae     (Gauss)

divergence        duh 'vuhr juhnss

divergent        duh 'vuhr jent

divider        duh 'vy duhr

David DiVincenzo

Jean Dixon effect         jeen 'dik suhn   i 'fekt

dodecagon          doh 'dek uh gahn

dodecahedron         doh ,dek uh 'hee druhn

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson        1832-98         chahrlz   'luht wij   'dahj suhn

domain          doh 'mayn

Giovanni de' Dondi        1318-89        joh 'vahn nee   dah   'don dee

Christian Johann Doppler        1803-53         'dohp lur
        Doppler effect          'dahp luhr   i 'fekt

Adrien Douady

Ding-Zhu Du

Duality Principle

Lester Dubins

Harvey Dubner

Whitfield Duffie

dummy         'duh mee

duodecillion          ,doo oh di 'sil yuhn

Albrecht Dürer        1471-1528       'ahl breKHt  'd[ue]RuhR
                      English:   'dur uhr  or  'dyur uhr

dynamics         dy 'nam iks

E

eccentricity           ,ek sen 'tris uhd ee

ecliptic         i 'klip tik

Arthur Stanley Eddington         1882-1944

Brother Edvin        fl. 1240

e. g.         exempli gratia     means  for example   cf.  i. e.

Albert Einstein        1879-1955             'iyn shtyn

Max Eisenstein

Elements         (Euclid)

ellipse        ih 'lips

ellipsis         ih 'lip siss

ellipsoid        ih 'lip soyd

elliptic          ih 'lip tik

encyclopédistes

ENIAC        'ee nee ak

Enigma        ih 'nig muh

entropy         'en truh pee

Entscheidungsproblem

Enumeratio linearum tertil ordinis        (Newton)

epicycle          'e puh ,sy kuhl

Epimenides       fl. c500 B.C.          ep ih 'men ih deez

epsilon       'ep suh ,lahn         epsilon = ε (lower case) = Ε (uppercase)

equal           'ee kwuhl

equation          ih 'kway zhuhn

equiangular          ,ee kwuh 'ang ,yoo luhr

equidistant          ,ee kwuh 'dis tuhnt

equilateral          ,ee kwuh ,lad uh ruhl

Eratosthenes of Cyrene     c276-c194    ,er uh 'tahs thuh neez  sy 'ree nee

Paul Erdős       1913-97        powl 'ayr d[ue]sh             English;   'ayr dish
     Erdős number         'ayr dish   'nuhm buhr

Erlangen Program         air 'la[ng] en  'proh ,gram

Erode

Maurits Cornelis Escher    1898-1972    'mow rits  kawr 'nah luhs  'es KHuhr
                                                                                        English:  'esh uhr
T. Estermann

eta         'ay duh         eta = η (lower case) = Η (uppercase)

Etruscan Venus         ee 'truhs kuhn         'vee nuhss

Euclidean          yoo 'klid ee yuhn

Euclid of Alexandria      ?330-275      Here's looking at  yoo klid
                                              al eg 'zan dree uh

Euclid of Megara        ?450-374       yoo klid    'meg uh ruh

Eudemus of Rhodes         fl. c320 B.C.        'yoo duh muhs   rohdz

Eudoxis of Cnidus        408-355         yoo'dahk suhs    'ny duhs

Leonard Euler       1707-83      'oy ler        rhymes with toiler

Euler-Mascheroni constant       'oy ler  mahs ke 'roh nee

Euler's number         'oy lerz   'nuhm buhr

evolute          'ev uh loot

exa-          'eks uh

excluded middle         eks 'klood uhd   'mi dl

exclusion principle        eks 'kloo zhuhn   'print suh puhl

exhaustions          ig 'zaws chuns
     method of exaustions        'me thuhd  uhv  ig 'zaws chuns

exponent         'ek ,spoh nuhnt

exponential         ,ek spuh 'nen chuhl

exterior          ek 'stir ee uhr

extraneous          ek 'strayn ee uhss

extrema          ek 'stree muh

extreme          ek 'streem

extremum          ek 'streem uhm

F

factorial          fak 'tohr ee uhl

Giovanni Francesco Fagnano dei Toschi   1715-97    joh 'vah nee   fran 'chays koh  fah 'nyah noh  deh 'tohs kee

Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit   1686-1736  'gahb ree el  'dahn yel  'fah ruhn hyt
                                                                        English:  'far uhn ,hyt
fair game          fair gaym

Michael Faraday         1791-1867        'my kuhl  'far uh ,day

Farey          'far ee
     Farey sequence         'far ee    ,see kwuhns

Pierre Fatou          fah 'too

Gustav Theodor Fechner       1601-65    'gus ,tahf  'tay oh ,dohr  'feKH nuhr

Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
     Feigenbaum's constant

femto-          ,fem toh

Fereydoon

Pierre de Fermat         1601-65       fehr 'mah

Lodovico Ferrari        1522-65     ,loo daw 'vee koh    fer 'rah ree

Scipione del Ferro       1465-1526         shee 'pyoh nay   del   'fehr roh

Richard Phillip Feynman            1918-88       'fyn man

Fibonacci        c1170-after1240        ,fee buh 'nahch ee
     (also:  Leonardo of Pisa)

finite          'fy nyt

Thomas Finck (Fincke)        1561-1656         'tom uhs   fingk

George Francis FitzGerald       1851-1901   jorj  'fran suhss  fits 'jer uhld

Fleury          fluhr ee

Henry Fliegel

floating point          'flohd i[ng]  poynt

floor function        flohr   'fuh[ng]k shuhn

Flos     (Fibonacci)

fluxions          'fluhk shuhnz
     method of fluxions        'me thuhd  uhv  'fluhk shuhnz

focal          'foh kuhl
        focal point          'foh kuhl  poynt

foci        'foh ,sigh

focus        'foh kuss

folium          'foh lee uhm

formula         'fohr myuh luh

formulae        'fohr myuh lye

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier      1768-1830         zhah(n)  bah teest  zhoh zef  foo 'Ryay

Marjorie Fox

fractal          'frak tuhl

fraction          'frak shuhn

Michael Freedman

Fredrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege     1848-1625   'fray guh

frequency         'free ,kwuhn see

Augustin Jean Fresnel           1788-1827        fray 'nel

Alexander Friedmann          1888-1925         freed man

friendship problem         'fren ship  ,prahb lem

Gemma Frisius         1505-55

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius         1849-1917        'fer de ,nahnt   gay 'orK   fro 'bay nee uss

                    (English:  fro 'bee nee uhss)

frusta          'fruhs tuh

frustum          'fruhs tuhm

        Plural:  frustums or frusta

function          'fuh[ng]k shuhn

functional          'fuh[ng]k shuhn uhl

fuzzy          'fuhz ee

G

Galilean           gal i 'lay uhn

Galileo Galilei         1564-1642        gal i 'lay oh    gal i 'lay ee

George H. Gallup         1901-84

Évariste Galois        1811-32        gal 'wah    cf. avoidupois

Francis Galton           1822-1911          'gawl tn

game          gaym

gamma         'ga muh         gamma = γ (lower case) = Γ (uppercase)

George Gamow        1906-2005        jorj  'gay mov      Георгий Антонович Гамов

Martin Gardner

James A. Garfield        1831-81

George Gasper

gauge invariance         gayj  ,in 'vair ee uhnts

Johann Gauss

Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss        1777-1855        'yoh hahn  kahrl  'free driKH   gowss

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac        1778-1850         gay  l[ue] 'sak

Hans Wilhelm Geiger        1882-1945       'gy ger

gene         jeen

generatrix         ,jen uh ,ray triks

generatrices         ,jen uh ,ray trih seez

Angelo Genocchi        1817-89       'ahn jay loh   'guh nahk ee

Gerhard Gentzen

geoboard          'jee oh ,bohrd

geodesic          jee uh 'des ik

geodesy          jee uh 'des ee

geometric          ,jee uh 'me trik

Géométrie        (Descarte)

geometry          jee 'ahm uh tree

Joseph Diaz Gergonne        1771-1859        ,zho 'zof   dyahz   ,zher 'gawn

Sophie Germain        1776-1831         soh 'fee   zhehR ma(n)

Josiah Willard Gibbs        1839-1903         joh 'sye uh   'wil uhrd   gibz

GIF        jif     (because its creators say so, even though the G is for graphics)

giga-       'gih guh  or  jih guh

glide         glyd

global         'gloh buhl

gnomon         'noh muhn

gnomonic         noh 'mahn ik

Kurt Gödel        1906-78         kurt  'g[oe]d uhl
                Should be something like girdle without the r
                                    English:        'gay duhl

Christian Goldbach        1690-1764         'gohl(d) bahk
               Goldbach Conjecture         'gohl(b) bahk  kuhn ,jek chuhr

golden ratio        'gohl duhn    'ray ,shoh

golden section         'gohl duhn  'sek shuhn

        Value is approximately 1.6180339887498948482045868343656381177203091798057628621354486227052604628189024497072072041893911374

Solomon Golomb

Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de Méré       fl. 1654      an twahn    gohm bawd    shuh 'val "yay   de  may ray

Gompertz

gon        gahn

googol          'goo gawl

googolplex          'goo gawl ,pleks

Paul Albert Gordan         1837-1912           powl  'o ,bert   'gor dan

Bill Gosper            bil  gah spuhr

Thorold Gosset               1869-1962          'thuhr  uhld   'goss  et

    Gosset polytope                    'goss  et   'pol ih ,tohp    

Willian Sealy Gosset               1876-1937             'goss  et

Benjamin Apthorp Gould        1824-96        'benj uh muhn   'ap ,thawrp   goold

grad         grad

grade          grayd

gradient          'grayd ee uhnt

Ronald Graham

J. P. Gram

graph        graf

Hermann Grassman         'gRahs  mahn

John Graunt        1620-1674        jon   grant

greedy          'gree dee

George Green         1793-1841        green

Isaac Greenwood         1702-45        'eye zak   'green wuhd

James Gregorie         1638-75

Pope Gregory XIII     (Gregorius XIII )  1502-85    pohp  'greg uh ree
                                                                                        (greg 'ohr ee uhs)
John Gregory

Peter Grimm

Gröbner

Jan Cornets de Groot        1554-1640      yahn  de  groot

        Also known as     Johan Hugo de Groot          yoh 'hahn   'hoo KHoh

Johannes de Groot        1914-72      yoh 'hahn ess   de  groot

Hermann Grossman

Grundgesestze der Arithmetik     (Frege)

Catherina Gsell

Domenico Guglielmini

Karl Gustav

Francis Guthrie         fl. 1852

gyration          jy 'ray shuhn

H

Wolfgang Haken         1928-

Edmund Halley        1656-1742        'hal ee

Alexander Hamilton         'ham uhl tuhn

Sir William Rowan Hamilton        1805-65          o'wil yuhm   'roh ,an   'ham uhl tuhn

Hamiltonian          'ham uhl 'toh nee uhn

Richard Hamming         1915-

Heiko Harborth

G. H. Hardy         1877-1947

harmonic          hahr 'mahn ik

Thomas Harriot  (Harriott) (Hariot)        1560-1621         'tahm uhs   'har ee uht

Edward Harrison

Felix Hausdorff         'howz dohrf

Oliver Heaviside         1850-1925         'awl uh vuhr   'hev uh sighd

hect-  or  hecto-         hekt  or    'hek tuh

hectare        'hek ,tair

Carl Heiles

Heinrich Edward Heine        1821-81         'hyn ri[KH]   'ay doo ahrt   'hy nuh

Werner Karl Heisenberg         1901-76       'hyzn berg

hekat

helical          'hee ,lik uhl

helix          'hee ,liks

Martin Hellman

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz        1821-94        'her ,muhn   'loot viKH   'fer dee ,nont   fawn   'helm ,hawlts

hemisphere          'he me ,sfir

Michel Hénon         1931-        mee ,shel   ay ,no(n)

Denis Henrion        1580-1643        duh nee    (h)o(n) ree oh(n)

heptagon          'hep tuh gahn

heptakaidecagon         ,hep tuh ky 'dek uh gahn

Pescheux d'Herbinville        early 1600s         

Charles Hermite         1822-1901        ehr 'meet

Hero of Alexandria         c A.D. 75   'hir oh    al eg 'zan dree uh

Herodotus of Halicarnassus  (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος Ἁλικαρνᾱσσεύς)        c.484 - c.425 B.C.   hi 'rahd uh tuhs    ,hal ih kahr 'na sus

Heron  (Hero of Alexandria)        'her awn

William Herschel        1738-1822         'hur  shuhl

Heinrich Rudolph Hertz        1857-94

hexadecimal          hek suh 'des muhl

hexagon          'hek suh gahn

hexahedron          ,hek suh 'hee druhn

David Hilbert         1862-1943        dah vit  'hil buhrt

                                       English:   'day vid

George Hill         1862-1943

Joseph Adna Hill         1860-1938        'joh sef   'ad nuh   hil

Thomas Hill        1818-91        'tom uhs   hil

Hipparchus of Nicaea in Bithynia       190-120     hi 'pahr kuss   ny 'see uh     bih 'thin ee uh

        (Greek:  Ιππαρχος)

Hippasus of Metapontum                 'hip uh suhss    met uh 'pahn tuhm

Hippocrates of Chios        450-400       hip 'ahk ruh ,teez    'ky awss
    not to be confused with Hippocrates of Kos (Latin: Cos)        c.460-c.377         kahss

Philippe de La Hire        1640-1718         fee leep   de  luh  eer

Morris Hirsch

Ernest William Hobson     1856-1933         uhr nuhs   'wil yuhm   'hob suhn

David Hoffman

Hofreiter

Douglas Hofstadter

John Holland

Herman Hollerith         1860-1929         'huhr man   'ho luhr ith

Bernt Holmboe

homogeneous        ,hoh muh 'jee nee uhs    

                Do not confuse this with the nonmathematical word homogenous.  (huh 'mahj jen uhs)

Robert Hooke         1635-1703          'rah bert   huk  (u as in put)

Eberhard Hopf        1902-83          hawpf

Horner's method         'horn erz  'meth uhd

Marquis de l'Hospital         1661-1704         loh pee tal

Chia Hsien         c1050         jee 'ah   shee 'uhnh

hsuan thu

T. C. Hu

John Hubbard

Edwin Hubble         1889-1953

Edward V. Huntington

John Hutchinson

Aldous Huxley

Christiaan Huygens         1629-95        'kris tyahn  'h[oe]i [KH]uhns   (English: 'hoy guhnz or hy guhnz)

Frank Hwang

Hypatia         370-415          hy 'pay shuh

hyperbola          hy 'puhr buh luh

hyperbolic          ,hy puhr ,bahl ik

hyperboloid          hy 'puhr buh loyd

hypercube          'hy puhr ,kyoob

hyperdimension        'hy puhr duh 'men shuhn   or  'hy puhr dy 'men shuhn

hypoteneuse         hy 'paht n ,ooss

I

Ibn Khaldun

icosahedron          igh ,kah suh 'hee druhn

identity           igh 'den uh dee

i. e.        id est      id est    means "that is"  cf. e. g.

Ikeda map

ill-posed          'il ,pohzd

image          'im ij

imaginary         ih ,maj uh nair ee

implicit          im 'pliss it

improper          ,lm 'prahp uhr

incenter          ,in ,sen tuhr

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