Ancient & Classical
Middle Ages & Renaissance
Women in Mathematics
Belarusian, Russian & Soviet Mathematicians
100

This man is famous for his theorem about right-angled triangles: a2 + b2 = c2.

Pythagoras

100

This Italian mathematician introduced the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to Europe in his book "Liber Abaci"

Leonardo Fibonacci

100

Often called the first computer programmer, she wrote the first algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Ada Lovelace

100

Known as the "Copernicus of Geometry," he created Non-Euclidean geometry.

Nikolai Lobachevsky

200

He shouted "Eureka!" when he discovered how to measure volume and estimated the value of Pi.

Archimedes

200

A Persian polymath who gave the name to "Algebra" and "Algorithm."

Al-Khwarizmi

200

The first woman to become a professor of mathematics in Northern Europe, known for her work on differential equations.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

200

A Soviet genius who made fundamental contributions to probability theory and topology.

Andrey Kolmogorov

300

Known as the "Father of Geometry," he wrote the famous book "Elements".

Euclid

300

his French mathematician and philosopher created the Cartesian coordinate system.

Rene Descartes

300

Albert Einstein called her the "most significant creative mathematical genius" for her work in abstract algebra.

Emmy Noether

300

A Soviet mathematician and Nobel laureate in Economics, famous for linear programming.

Leonid Kantorovich

400

He calculated the circumference of the Earth with surprising accuracy using only shadows and geometry.

Eratosthenes

400

He was the first to find a general solution for cubic equations, though he kept it a secret for a long time.

Niccolò Tartaglia

400

An 18th-century Italian mathematician who wrote the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

400

world-renowned Belarusian algebraist and former rector of Gomel University, famous for his work on "Formations of Finite Groups."

Leonid Shemetkov

500

Known as the "Great Geometer," his work Conics introduced terms like "parabola" and "ellipse."

Apollonius of Perga

500

A Scottish landowner who invented logarithms to simplify complex astronomical calculations.

John Napier

500

This French mathematician won a prize from the French Academy of Sciences for her research on the theory of elasticity.

Sophie Germain

500

This legendary Belarusian mathematician and Academician was a founder of the school of algebra and number theory in Minsk.

Vladimir Platonov