Greatest Mathematicians of All Time

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

An Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age.

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Adolphe Quetelet

Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

Child prodigy who graduated from the University of California with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age

Adrien Marie Legendre

A French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.

Akshay Venkatesh

Mathematical Work, Former Child Prodigy

Al-Battani

A Syrian Arab astronomer, and mathematician.

Al-Kindi

A Muslim philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician who is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".

Alan Turing

An English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.

Albert Einstein

Synonym for genius and one of humanity greatest scientific minds

Alexander von Humboldt

A German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

Alfred J. Lotka

A US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics.

Ibn al-Haytham

A Muslim Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age who is referred to as the father of mod

André-Marie Ampère

A French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism.

Andrew Wiles

Proving Fermat's Last Theorem

Antoine Arnauld

A French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician.

Archimedes

A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Aristarchus of Samos

An ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at th

Aristotle

A Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

A French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics.

Averroes - Ibn Rushd

A Muslim Andalusi scholar and philosopher.

Avicenna

A Medieval Persian polymath, physician and philosopher

Bernhard Riemann

A German mathematician who made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

Bertrand Russell

A British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobe

Blaise Pascal

Pascal's law

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

French scientist & naturalist of the 18th century

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science.

Charles Babbage

A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer.

Christiaan Huygens

A Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer and inventor, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of a

Christian Doppler

An Austrian mathematician and physicist.

Felix Klein

A German mathematician and mathematics educator.

Christopher Wren

An acclaimed English architect, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist.

Claude Shannon

An American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".

Ptolemy

2nd-century Greco-Egyptian writer & astronomer who wrote several scientific treatises, three of which were of importance

Ctesibius

Greek inventor and mathematician who is considered to be the father of pneumatics.

Daniel Bernoulli

A Swiss mathematician and physicist for pioneering work in probability and statistics

David Hilbert

A German mathematician and one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Denis Papin

a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forer

Diophantus

An Alexandrian genius mathematician, who was the author of a series of books called Arithmetica.

Donald Knuth

An American computer scientist who is called the "father of the analysis of algorithms" and is known for the work The Ar

Edith Stern

An American inventor and mathematician who holds over 100 US patents and was the youngest ever graduate of Florida Atlan

Edmond Halley

An English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist whos observations helped to determine t

Edward Witten

An American mathematical and theoretical physicist who was awarded a Fields Medal for the proof of the positive energy t

Emmy Noether

A genius German mathematician who discovered Noether's theorem. Albert Einstein described her as the most important woma

Eratosthenes

A Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was the chief librarian at the Library of Al

Euclid

A Greek mathematician, often referred to as the founder of geometry. His Elements is one of the most famous works in the

Eudoxus of Cnidus

An ancient Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar, and student of Archytas and Plato. Some fragments of his work are p

Évariste Galois

A French mathematician and political activist. He solved a mathematical problem nobody could solve for 350 years when he

Fibonacci

An Italian mathematician, considered to be the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages. He popularized th

George Boole

A largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician who layed the foundations for the information age

George Green

British mathematical physicist who was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism.

Georges Lemaître

A Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Gerolamo Cardano

An Italian polymath was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binom

Giordano Bruno

An Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

A German philosopher, mathematician, scientist, diplomat and polymath. He is a prominent figure in both the history of p

Gottlob Frege

A genius German philosopher, logician, and mathematician who is considered to be the father of analytic philosophy

Gregor Mendel

A meteorologist, mathematician, biologist, Augustinian friar who gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the mod

Grigori Perelman

Russian mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and g

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

A German polymath, physician, theologian, and occult writer widely considered as the top occultists of the early modern

Hildegard of Bingen

A German Benedictine abbess who is among the best best-known composers of sacred monophony

Hypatia

Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician who was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria where she

Isaac Newton

An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author

Ivan Ivec

Jacob Bernoulli

A Swiss mathematician who was a proponent of Leibnizian calculus.

James Clerk Maxwell

AScottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics who formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiatio

James Prescott Joule

An English physicist, mathematician and brewer whose work led to the discovery of the first law of thermodynamics.

Jean Sylvain Bailly

French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

A French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist

Joseph Fourier

A French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series.

Jerry Newport

An author and public speaker whose life was the basis for the 2005 feature-length movie Mozart and the Whale

Johannes Kepler

A German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who was a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, best

Regiomontanus

A mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer of the German Renaissance whose works were instrumental in the development o

John Wallis

An English clergyman and mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus.

John Napier

A Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer best known as the discoverer of logarithms

John Tukey

An American mathematician best known for development of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

An American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of par

John von Neumann

Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Italian-French mathematician and astronomer

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science who made fundamental contributions to pure and app

Karl Pearson

An English mathematician and biostatistician who established the discipline of mathematical statistics.