I started using maple around 1995 on the Inverse Symbolic Calculator to discover the MRB constant and got put on this list.

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List of amateur mathematicians

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This is a list of amateur mathematicians—people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics (or any similar discipline) yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics.

• Ahmes (scribe)
• Ashutosh Mukherjee (Lawyer)
• Robert Ammann (programmer and postal worker)
• John Arbuthnot (surgeon and author)
• Jean-Robert Argand (shopkeeper)
• Leon Bankoff (Beverly Hills dentist)
• Rev. Thomas Bayes (Presbyterian minister)
• Andrew Beal (businessman)
• Isaac Beeckman (candlemaker)
• Chester Ittner Bliss (biologist)
• Napoléon Bonaparte (general)
• Mary Everest Boole (homemaker, librarian)
• William Bourne (innkeeper)
• Nathaniel Bowditch (indentured bookkeeper)
• Achille Brocot (clockmaker)
• Harlan J. Brothers (teacher, inventor, and musician)
• Jost Bürgi (clockmaker)
• Marvin Ray Burns (veteran)