Post any mathematicians that have very similar names and get easily lead to confusion.

So far I can only think of two, I am sure there are more:

1)Schwarz (as in Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality) and Schwartz (as in Theory of Distributions --> won Fields medal).

2)Lipschitz (as in Lipschitz continuity) and Lifshitz (as in the physicist).

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Eisenstein and Einstein.

Don't forget about whom I call "The Fabulous Bernoulli Brothers." How many of them were there, three or something?

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Good one. I did not think of that.

There are 8 Bernoulli's . My 12th grade teacher use to tell me it takes a good mathematician to know what Bernoulli did what.

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Weil and Weyl.

Oh, and once in number theory I was giving a presentation on some finite cyclic groups, and I was determining generators by referring to Lagrange, but also determining quadratic residues by referring to Legendre. I kept accidentally using the wrong name for the wrong theorem in my talk though. Dangerous to refer to both of them in the same discussion.

As a Nascent Mathematician, i shall make it a point of honor to study this... maybe like over the winter break or so... or maybe next summer... sometime soon!

You guys are really good, I was just unable to think of anybody else. At least I was sure there got to be more.

I know Weyl, I do not know Weil (at least not yet).

By the way, that sounds almost like a pun, "... I was giving a presentation on finite groups ... " . But yes, I really like Lagrange and Legendre. I should have thought of that. I remember when I was younger I get confused by who of these were.

You give math presentations in class? That sounds really fun.

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1. Carl Friedrich Gauß, The Princeps Mathematecorum, 1777 - 1855

2. Friedrich Gustav Gauß, 1829 - 1915

F. G. Gauß was one of the most important surveyors and his logarithmetic and trigonometric tables are still in use (if you don't have a computer at hand or can't get any fresh batteries)

Andre Weil.

At my university, we are on the quarter system so there are three quarters per academic year (the fourth quarter being summer) instead of two semesters. Most undergraduate courses are three quarter sequences, where the third course in the sequence is usually topics researched and presented by the students. It's really quite fun!

Ah, I know who he is then . One of the nicest theorems is the Mordell-Weil Theorem on Elliptic Curves, so he had a contribution to that theorem.

Here are more.
von Neumann (Johnny) and Neumann (as in the boundary value problem).

There was even a long period of time when I used to believe that the Neumann BVP was named after Johnny, I did not even know there was another Neumann.

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Two of the greatest mathematicians have very similar names: Euler and Euclid.

Galileo, Galois
Schroder, Schrodinger

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Not so confusing.

Galileo was not a mathematician. And this is not confusing.
Schrodinger was not a mathematician. And I never even heard of Schroder, was he a quantum theorist? Probably also not a mathematician. This is definitely not confusing.

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Ernst Schröder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And yes Schrodinger was a physicist... your point? I guess you are looking for people who devoted their studies to mathematics exclusively, and not the applications there of.

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Because I am looking for mathematicians. A physicist is not a mathematician. I used to think when I was younger that physicists were good in math, now I changed my view. Most physicists know nothing about math, they know how to manipulate equations and differencial equations and so on, but that is not knowning math. That is simply learning theorems and formulas and using them. They have no idea why these formulas work, where they come from, and much of what they do does not have much mathematical basis to it. So why would you consider such a person to be a mathematician? Did the person contribute anything to math? No.

Yes, there have been physicists that were mathematicians, like Poincare. But I do not think of these people as physicists that were mathematicians, I think of them as mathematicians that knew physics.

Therefore, Schrodinger and the rest of the Soccer Quantum Team should not be associated with math at all.

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Here's a mathematician biography site. See how many you can find you haven't thought of.

Indexes of Biographies

BTW, concerning Weyl versus Weil, is one of these pronounced Vale?. I once heard a physics related term,

The Vale tensor dynamic. It was pronounced Vale, but I wasn't sure which one was which as I hadn't heard them pronounced, just written.