Great Mathematicians

Euclid

330

Euclid was born in 330 bc. He was responsible in connoting Geometrical knowledge and also wrote the famous Euclid's Elements and framed the skeleton for geometry that would be used in mathematics by the Western World for over 2000 years.

Galileo Galilei

Feb 15, 1564

Galileo Galilei founded Galilean Telescope, Stated the Heliocentric Cosmology, Discovered Jupiter's 4 moons

Blaise Pascal

Jun 19, 1623

Blaise Pascal invented mechanical calculator, hydraulic press and wrote famous religious works like "Lettres provinciales and the Pensees".

Isaac Newton

Jan 4, 1643

Isaac Newton was a fellow of the Royal Society, Founder of Universal gravitation theory, Member of the Parliament of England, Founder of Newtonian Mechanics, Lucasian Professor.

Carl F. Gauss

Apr 30, 1777

Carl F. Gauss is known for Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Quadratic Reciprocity Law, Prime Number Theorem, Theories of Binary and Ternary Quadratic Forms, Invention of Heliotrope.

Evariste Galois

Oct 25, 1811

Evariste Galois determined a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals.

Karl W. T. Weierstrass

Oct 31, 1815

Karl W. T. Weierstrass is known for 'Weierstrass function'. He is known as the 'Father of modern analysis'.

Charles Hermite

Dec 24, 1822

Charles Hermite is known for his tremendous research in mathematics and researches on number theory, quadratic forms and invariant theory, elliptic functions etc.

Lord Kelvin

Jun 26, 1824

Lord Kelvin discovered the existence of absolute zero in temperature, Formulated 1st & 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics, Worked on significant finds on the mathematical analysis of electricity, Kelvin scale has been named after him

Bernhard Riemann

Sep 17, 1826

Bernhard Riemann is known for Riemann zeta function, Riemann hypothesis, Theory of higher dimensions, and Riemannian metric.

Richard Dedekind

Oct 6, 1831

Richard Dedekind is known for his 'Lectures on Number Theory', 'Continuity and Irrational Numbers' and Modular Lattices.

Felix Christian Klein

Apr 25, 1849

Felix Christian Klein is known for his significant contributions in the application of invariant theory to combine geometry with group theory.

Henri Poincare

Apr 29, 1854

Henri Poincare was known for his discovery of Topology and Qualitative Dynamics. Some of his other notable works are the theories of Special Relativity and Aanalytical Functions.

David Hilbert

Jan 23, 1862

David Hilbert's work in geometry had the greatest impact after Euclid's prominent works. He is known for Hilbert's program, Hilbert's problems, Hilbert's axioms and Hilbert's basis theorem.

Alfred North Whitehead

Feb 15, 1869

Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a rival doctrine to Einstein's general relativity. He worked on this area to come out with his more significant work, ‘Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge’.

G. H. Hardy

Feb 7, 1877

G. H. Hardy reformed British mathematics, Known for his extensive achievements in Number Theory and Mathematical Analysis

Emmy Noether

Mar 23, 1882

Emmy Noether is a renowned German mathematician credited for her contributions to theoretical physics and abstract algebra.

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Dec 22, 1887

Srinivasa Ramanujan is known for Ramanujan constant, Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan theta function, Ramanujan's master theorem, Mock theta functions, Ramanujan conjecture, Ramanujan-Soldner constant, Ramanujan's sum.

John von Neumann

Dec 28, 1903

John von Neumann is known for game theory, quantum logic, linear programming, mathematical statistics and more.

Alexander Grothendieck

Mar 28, 1928

Alexander Grothendieck is a prominent mathematician who is well known for his theories in algebraic geometry, homological algebra and functional analysis.

Archimedes

Mar 2, 2022

Archimedes was born in 287 bc. He was Credited with Archimedes' principle of density, siege machines, screw pump, formulae for the volumes of surfaces, approximate value of ð.