Greatest Mathematicians
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Carl Friedrich GaussPrince of mathematicians
Leonhard EulerCalculus / 18th century
Isaac NewtonCalculus / Principia
ArchimedesAncient Greek geometry
Bernhard RiemannRiemann hypothesis
Pierre de FermatNumber theory / Fermat's
Blaise PascalProbability theory
Rene DescartesAnalytic geometry
PythagorasPythagorean theorem
EuclidFather of geometry
Gottfried LeibnizCalculus co-inventor
Henri PoincareTopology / dynamics
David Hilbert23 problems / formalism
Kurt GodelIncompleteness theorems
Srinivasa RamanujanNumber theory prodigy
Alan TuringComputation theory- John von NeumannGame theory / computing
- Andrew WilesFermat's Last Theorem
Grigori PerelmanPoincare conjecture
Terence TaoFields Medal 2006
Maryam MirzakhaniFirst woman Fields Medal
Alexander GrothendieckAlgebraic geometry
John NashNash equilibrium
Paul ErdosCombinatorics / number
Emmy NoetherAbstract algebra
Ada LovelaceFirst programmer
Sofia KovalevskayaAnalysis pioneer
Hypatia of AlexandriaAncient mathematician
Al-KhwarizmiFather of algebra
FibonacciFibonacci sequence
Joseph-Louis LagrangeAnalytical mechanics
Pierre-Simon LaplaceCelestial mechanics
Augustin-Louis CauchyReal analysis
Karl WeierstrassFather of analysis
Niels Henrik AbelAbel prize / group theory
Evariste GaloisGalois theory
Georg CantorSet theory
Bertrand RussellLogic / philosophy
Benoit MandelbrotFractal geometry
Claude ShannonInformation theory