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Lived from 580-500 BC
most well known for Pythagoras theorem -
The Elements is a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria
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lived during 262-190 BC
most known for works with conics -
Most influential Chinese math book Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art is a practical handbook of mathematics consisting of 246 problems intended to provide methods to be used to solve everyday problems of engineering, surveying, trade, and taxation.
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Lived from 75 - 10 BC
Heron of Alexandria is best known in the history of mathematics for the formula, bearing his name, for the area of a triangle -
Lived from 100 –170.
He is known for his development of trig tables, that had many practical applications. -
Lived from 200-284.
Diophantus is known for his works solving polynomial equations with several unknowns; these are now called Diophantine equations. Diophantine equations are still researched today. -
Lived From 220-280.
Hui solved linear equations using matrices and calculated pi correctly to 5 decimals. -
Lived from 276-195 BC
Eratosthenes is most known for the “Sieve of Eratosthenes” method for identifying prime numbers. -
Lived from 360 - 415.
Hypatia was a prominent astronomer and mathematician. She
She was the first female mathematician, in which we have a detailed record of her life and work. -
He lived from 384-322 BC.
Aristotle developed standardized logic and deductive reasoning. -
Lived From 598 – 668.
He worked on Algebra, Mensuration, and Indeterminate equations.
Known for the first appearance of zero; he Interpreted nothingness as a number, unlike Greeks. -
Lived from approximately 780 to 850 He wrote at least six astronomical and mathematical works with the most important book being Al-Jabr Al-Jabr contained no solutions of zero
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In Ancient and Medieval India, the earliest undoubted occurrence of zero is in inscription in 876.
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Leading mathematician of the 12th century
Wrote Lilavati
Lived from 1114 to approximately 1185 -
Leonardo of Pisa was also known as Fibonacci.
Liber Abaci is a treatise on algebraic methods and problems with strongly advocated for the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals.
Fibonacci was considered one of the most original and capable mathematicians of the medieval Christian world, with much of his work being too advance for the time. -
Lived from 1340 – 1425.
Madhava is most known for his usage of an infinite series to approximate trigonometric functions. Many centuries later, this was a significant step towards the development of calculus. -
Lived from 1436-1476
Could be the most influential mathematician of 15th century
Wrote De Triangulis Omnimodis in approximately 1464, which was later published in 1533. The book consisted of systematic accounts of methods for solving triangles. -
The Arte dell’Abbaco, published in 1478 in Europe and was the first printed book on arithmetic and the operation of the abacus in Europe
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Lived From 1499-1557
He independently develops a method for solving depressed cubic equations.
He was also the first to apply mathematics to the path of cannonballs in his Nova Scientia; this is now known as ballistics. -
Lived From 1540 – 1603
François Viète made significant advances in Algebra, and first introduced the use of letters to represent variables. -
Began working on Logarithms in 1594
He used base of 1/e
Natural logarithms sometimes referred to as Napierian -
Lived from 1601-1665
In 1636, Fermat discovered the fundamental principle of analytic geometry. His Introduction to Loci was published after 1665. He had a method for finding maxima and minima. He was even later referred to as discoverer of differential calculus. He became the founder of modern number theory. -
Lived From 1646-1716
Had a method for Calculus developed independently of Newton
Second only to Euler in building notation
Created a lot of the Calculus notation we still use today -
Lived from 1667 - 1748.
He was the inventor of calculus of variations.
In 1696, he proposed the problem of the brachistochrone, and he is often given credit for exponential calculus. -
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia was written by Issac Newton in 1687. It gave foundations of physics and astronomy in the language of pure geometry.
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Lived from 1707-1783.
He published more 500+ books and papers in his lifetime.
He created the notation e, the pi symbol, i, the summation symbol, and f(x) just to name a few. He influenced notation, Analysis, Logarithms, Differential equations, Probability, Number Theory, Analytic geometry, and Graph theory. -
Lived from 1736 - 1813.
Lagrange was Interested in algebra, analysis, and geometry.
He created the notation for derivatives of higher orders.
He created a new branch of math: Calculus of variations, with the name originating from notations by Lagrange. -
In 1736, Leonhard Euler solves the problem of the Seven bridges of Königsberg, in effect creating graph theory
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Lived From 1749-1827.
He worked to advance the theory of probability, and he was among the earliest mathematicians to show the area under a probability curve. Also worked on Laplace Transforms. -
Lived from 1777-1855.
Gauss was the greatest mathematician of his time.
He wrote Disquisitiones Arithmeticae in 1801, and he extended the meaning of the word ‘integer’. -
Lived from 1809 –1882.
Liouville was the first to prove the existence of transcendental numbers using a construction of continued fractions in 1844. -
He Lived from 1815-1864.
Boole created Boolean algebra, which is considered the starting point of modern mathematical logic. This led to the development of computer science. -
Lived from 1815 – 1852.
She was mathematician and a writer. Along with Charles Babbage, she worked on the Analytical Engine, an early computer. Lovelace became the first computer programmer in history when she wrote the first algorithm to calculate Bernoulli numbers. -
Lived from 1821-1895.
Known for his work with modern group theory. -
Lived from 1822-1901.
He is most known for his proof that e is a transcendental number, and he was the first to do so. -
Lived from 1826-1866.
Riemann is known for his work with Non-Euclidean elliptic geometry and Riemannian geometry. He is also known for his hypothesis, the Riemann Hypothesis, which remains unproven. -
Nikolai Lobachevsky lived from 1992 - 1856. This is considered the official birth of non-Euclidean geometry.
This was the first geometry published built specifically in direct conflict of parallel postulate. -
Lived from 1831-1916.
In 1872, Dedekind gave a precise definiton of infinity.
In 1879, he gave an explicit definition of a number field. -
Lived from 1845 – 1918
Cantor is noted as the inventor of set theory and is also known for his work with infinity. He along with others lead the way in our understanding of infinity. -
Lived from 1854-1912.
Known for his Partial solution to “three body problem”, foundations of modern chaos theory, and the Poincaré conjecture -
In 1894, Giuseppe Peano wrote Formulaire de mathematiques, which developed a formalized language to contain not only mathematical logic but all of the most important branches of mathematics.
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Principia Mathematica is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics, written by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North. It was published in 1910–1913. Principia Mathematica attempts to derive all mathematics truths from a well-defined set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic.
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Lived From 1912-1954.
Most known for breaking of the German enigma code and the Turing machine -
Born in 1953.
Andrew Wiles in most known for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. -
The ABC Conjecture was first proposed in 1985 by two mathematicians David Masser and Joseph Oesterlé.
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The Poincaré conjecture was proved by Grigori Perelman in 2003.