Mathematicians
Who they were, when they lived, what they are known for, and which other mathematicians were alive at the same time.
All mathematicians, oldest first
- Thales of Miletus
- Pythagoras
- Euclid
- Archimedes
- Eratosthenes
- Apollonius of Perga
- Hypatia
- Aryabhata
- Brahmagupta
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Omar Khayyam
- Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa)
- John Napier
- René Descartes
- Pierre de Fermat
- Blaise Pascal
- Isaac Newton
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Jacob Bernoulli
- Leonhard Euler
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Adrien-Marie Legendre
- Joseph Fourier
- Sophie Germain
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Nikolai Lobachevsky
- Niels Henrik Abel
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
- Évariste Galois
- George Boole
- Ada Lovelace
- Bernhard Riemann
- Georg Cantor
- Henri Poincaré
- David Hilbert
- G. H. Hardy
- Emmy Noether
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Stefan Banach
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- John von Neumann
- Kurt Gödel
- Alan Turing
- Paul Erdős
- Claude Shannon
- Katherine Johnson
- John Nash
- Alexander Grothendieck
- John Conway
- Andrew Wiles
- Grigori Perelman
- Terence Tao
- Maryam Mirzakhani