Mathematicians

 ASTEROID #'S        

 1858       Lobachevskij [named for - Nikolai Lobachevsky]
 1859      Kovalevskaya [named for - Sofia Kovalevskaya]
 1888      Zu Chong-Zhi [named for - Zu Chongzhi]
 1996      Adams [named for - John Couch Adams]
 1997      Leverrier [named for - Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier]
 2002      Euler [named for - Leonhard Euler]
 2010      Chebyshev [named for - Pafnuti Chebyshev]
 2587      Gardner [named for - Martin Gardner]
 4354      Euclides [named for - Euclid]
 4628      Laplace [named for - Pierre-Simon Laplace]
 6765      Fibonacci [named for - Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa]
 6143      Pythagoras [named for - Pythagoras]
 12493    Minkowski [named for - Hermann Minkowski]
 27500    Mandelbrot [named for - Benoît Mandelbrot]
 29552    Chern [named for - Shiing-Shen Chern]