Ancient Mathematicians
This Greek mathematician is known as the "Father of Geometry" and authored the influential work Elements.
Who is Euclid?
This German mathematician and philosopher is credited with developing differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton.
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
This Persian mathematician wrote The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, which gave rise to algebra.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
This French mathematician developed the normal distribution and laid the groundwork for modern statistics.
Who is Pierre-Simon Laplace?
This British mathematician and computer scientist is considered the father of artificial intelligence and played a key role in breaking the Enigma code.
Who is Alan Turing?
This ancient Greek mathematician accurately estimated the value of pi and formulated principles of buoyancy.
Who is Archimedes?
This English mathematician invented calculus (alongside Leibniz) and formulated the laws of motion and gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This French mathematician, despite dying young, made significant contributions to algebra and number theory, inspiring the field of Galois theory.
Who is Évariste Galois?
This English mathematician formulated the famous theorem of conditional probability, which helps predict future events based on past occurrences.
Who is Thomas Bayes?
This Hungarian mathematician was famous for his prolific collaboration with other mathematicians, creating the concept of an "Erdős number."
Who is Paul Erdős?
Known for his theorem about right triangles, this mathematician founded a school that followed strict mathematical and philosophical rules.
Who is Pythagoras?
This 18th-century Swiss mathematician introduced much of modern mathematical notation, including the function notation f(x).
Who is Leonhard Euler?
This 19th-century German mathematician created abstract algebra and is known for his namesake group theory.
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss?
This Russian mathematician is considered the father of modern probability theory.
Who is Andrey Kolmogorov?
This female mathematician made fundamental contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, with a namesake theorem in group theory.
Who is Emmy Noether?
This ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer introduced the concept of zero as a numeral.
Who is Brahmagupta?
This Scottish mathematician developed logarithms, which made complex calculations simpler.
Who is John Napier?
This English mathematician, known for A Treatise on Algebra, made early contributions to abstract algebra.
Who is George Peacock?
This French mathematician co-founded the field of game theory with John von Neumann.
Who is Émile Borel?
This American mathematician made major contributions to game theory, which were depicted in the movie A Beautiful Mind.
Who is John Nash?
This ancient Alexandrian mathematician and astronomer wrote the influential text Almagest, which described the geocentric model of the universe and included a comprehensive catalog of stars.
Who is Ptolemy?
Known for his work in calculus and mechanics, this French mathematician introduced partial differential equations.
Who is Joseph-Louis Lagrange?
This French mathematician introduced the notation for matrix determinants and helped lay the foundation for linear algebra.
Who is Augustin-Louis Cauchy?
This mathematician's law of large numbers is fundamental to statistics and probability.
Who is Jacob Bernoulli?
This English mathematician solved Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for over 350 years.
Who is Andrew Wiles?