diff --git a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/matrix.hpp b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/matrix.hpp
index f3482ce5..e2155c3a 100644
--- a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/matrix.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/matrix.hpp
@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ namespace boost { namespace numeric { namespace ublas {
             if (preserve) {
                 self_type temporary (size1, size2);
                 // Common elements to preserve
-                const size_t size1_min = std::min (size1, size1_);
-                const size_t size2_min = std::min (size2, size2_);
+                const size_t size1_min = (std::min) (size1, size1_);
+                const size_t size2_min = (std::min) (size2, size2_);
                 // Order loop for i-major and j-minor sizes
                 const size_t i_size = functor_type::size1 (size1_min, size2_min);
                 const size_t j_size = functor_type::size2 (size1_min, size2_min);
@@ -3375,8 +3375,8 @@ namespace boost { namespace numeric { namespace ublas {
             if (preserve) {
                 self_type temporary (size1, size2);
                 // Common elements to preserve
-                const size_t size1_min = std::min (size1, size1_);
-                const size_t size2_min = std::min (size2, size2_);
+                const size_t size1_min = (std::min) (size1, size1_);
+                const size_t size2_min = (std::min) (size2, size2_);
                 for (size_t i = 0; i != size1_min; ++i) {    // indexing copy over major
                     for (size_t j = 0; j != size1_min; ++j) {
                     	temporary.data_[i][j] = data_[i][j];
diff --git a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/traits.hpp b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/traits.hpp
index 70ad3975..95cff8c9 100644
--- a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/traits.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/traits.hpp
@@ -1426,7 +1426,7 @@ namespace boost { namespace numeric { namespace ublas {
     template<class I>
     BOOST_UBLAS_INLINE
     void increment (I &it, const I &it_end, std::ptrdiff_t compare, packed_random_access_iterator_tag) {
-        it += std::min (compare, it_end - it);
+        it += (std::min) (compare, it_end - it);
     }
     template<class I>
     BOOST_UBLAS_INLINE
diff --git a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/vector.hpp b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/vector.hpp
index e257cc23..f453a2f1 100644
--- a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/vector.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/vector.hpp
@@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ namespace boost { namespace numeric { namespace ublas {
         void resize (size_type size, bool preserve = true) {
             if (size > N)
                 bad_size ().raise ();
-            std::fill (data_ + std::min (size, size_), data_ + size, value_type ());
+            std::fill (data_ + (std::min) (size, size_), data_ + size, value_type ());
             size_ = size;
         }