1. Christiaan Huygens (1629)

Mathematician

Dutch mathematician and leading natural philosopher of his time who worked on early telescopic studies of the rings of Saturn. He also did revolutionary work on games of chance.

2. Leonhard Euler (1707)

Mathematician

Leonhard Euler is a famous Mathematician, who was born on April 15, 1707 in Switzerland. One of the Switzerland’s greatest mathematicians and physicists who introduced much of the mathematical terminology...

3. Brook Taylor (1685)

Mathematician

English mathematician chiefly responsible for the creation of the calculus tools Taylor's theorem and Taylor series. His work would later be described by Joseph-Louis Lagrange as "the main foundation of...

4. Daniel Bernoulli (1700)

Mathematician

Pioneering physicist and mathematician remembered for his significant contributions to the fields of statistics and probability. The famous "Bernoulli principle" is named in his honor.

5. Emilie Duchatelet (1706)

Mathematician

French mathematician and physicist who is best known for her translation of Issac Newton's Principia Mathematica.

6. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718)

Mathematician

Maria Gaetana Agnesi is a famous Mathematician, who was born on May 16, 1718 in Italy. Mathematician who wrote the first book dealing with both differential and integral calculus, Instituzioni...

7. Sophie Germain (1776)

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Late 18th and early 19th-century mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. She is remembered for her contributions to number theory, differential geometry, and elasticity theory.

8. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)

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Carl Friedrich Gauss is a famous Mathematician, who was born on April 30, 1777 in Germany. German mathematician who created Gauss’s Law, Gauss’s Law for Magnetism, and the process of...

9. Andre-marie Ampere (1775)

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Physicist and mathematician who went down in history as one of the founders of classical electromagnetism. He is also known for writing the Considerations sur la théorie mathématique du jeu...

10. Julius Plucker (1801)

Mathematician

German mathematician and physicist who was known for making fundamental contributions to analytical geometry and for being a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays which led to the electron...

11. Zerah Colburn (1804)

Mathematician

Child math prodigy who came to be known as the mental calculator and was able to multiply numbers such as 13 and 97 together in his head.

12. Ada Lovelace (1815)

Mathematician

Mathematician and writer who made a profound impact in the mechanical engineering field. Many have considered her to be the first computer programmer. 

13. Sir Francis Galton (1822)

Mathematician

English Victorian polymath who created the statistical concept of correlation and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on communities. He wrote over 340 books and papers...

14. Hermann Minkowski (1864)

Mathematician

German mathematician who studied number theory and mathematical physics. He is best known for his work in relativity, where he proved that the theory of relativity could also be demonstrated...

15. Gordon Ferrie Hull (1870)

Mathematician

Gordon Ferrie Hull is a famous Mathematician, who was born on October 7, 1870 in Canada. Mathematician and physicist best known for discovering radiation pressure exerted by light in 1903....

16. GH Hardy (1877)

Mathematician

English mathematician whose 1940 essay, 'A Mathematician's Apology,' became one of the most widely-known essays on mathematics ever written. He is also famous for his discovery and mentorship of the...

17. Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877)

Mathematician

Godfrey Harold Hardy is a famous Mathematician, who was born on February 7, 1877 in United Kingdom. An English mathematician who said, “Beauty is the first test: there is no...

18. Jur Hronec (1881)

Mathematician

Mathematician and the first honorary member of the Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists. He was the chairman of Matica Slovenska, a scientific and cultural institution, from 1945 to 1954.

19. George David Birkhoff (1884)

Mathematician

George David Birkhoff is a famous Mathematician, who was born on March 21, 1884 in United States. One of the foremost 20th century scientists, whose ergodic theorem solved a problem...

20. Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887)

Mathematician

Remembered for his tremendous contributions to the mathematical sub-fields and concepts of number theory, analysis, continued fractions, and infinite series, he famously collaborated with the British mathematician G. H. Hardy....

21. Alexander Friedmann (1888)

Mathematician

Mathematician and physicist remembered for his Friedmann equations, which sought to explain his theory of the universe's expansion.

22. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893)

Mathematician

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis is a famous Mathematician, who was born on June 29, 1893 in India. A scientist who founded the Indian Statistical Institute and is remembered for the statistical...

23. Alexander Aitken (1895)

Mathematician

New Zealander mathematician whose work in algebra and statistics made him a 1936 Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also known for writing several war memoirs, which got him...

24. William James Sidis (1898)

Mathematician

William James Sidis is a famous Mathematician, who was born on April 1, 1898 in United States. Best remembered as a child mathematical prodigy, this New York man began attending...

25. WVD Hodge (1903)

Mathematician

Notable for his work in the fields of algebraic and differential geometry, this twentieth-century mathematician was responsible for the development of Hodge theory and was a major contributor to the...

26. Alonzo Church (1903)

Mathematician

Philosopher and logician best remembered for proving the undecidability of Entscheidungsproblem, a popular algorithm.

27. John von Neumann (1903)

Mathematician

John von Neumann is a famous Mathematician, who was born on December 28, 1903 in Hungary. Mathematician and polymath specialist. He contributed to such fields as physics, computer science, economics,...

28. Saunders Mac Lane (1909)

Mathematician

Saunders Mac Lane is a famous Mathematician, who was born on August 4, 1909 in United States. Mathematician who won the National Medal of Science for pioneering category theory, transforming...

29. Paul Erdős (1913)

Mathematician

Hungarian mathematician who became one of the most prolific of the twentieth century, having writing more than 1,500 mathematical articles during his career. He was famous for his eccentric personality...

30. Richard Hamming (1915)

Mathematician

Computer pioneer who discovered a way for machines to correct their own errors. His groundbreaking work led the way to technologies like modems and compact discs.

31. Herbert A. Hauptman (1917)

Mathematician

Herbert A. Hauptman is a famous Mathematician, who was born on February 14, 1917 in United States. American mathematician whose equation for determining crystal structures changed chemistry forever. He was...

32. Julia Robinson (1919)

Mathematician

Mathematician who, most notably, worked on the Hilbert Tenth's problem. She proved that the fictitious play dynamics converges to the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games in a...

33. Lotfi A Zadeh (1921)

Mathematician

Lotfi A Zadeh is a famous Mathematician, who was born on February 4, 1921 in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani mathematician, engineer and computer scientist who introduced the concept of so-called “fuzzy” mathematics....

34. Jonas Kubilius (1921)

Mathematician

Lithuanian mathematician who was known for his work in probability theory and number theory. He was the rector of Vilnius University for 32 years, and he also served a single...

35. Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924)

Mathematician

Evelyn Boyd Granville is a famous Mathematician, who was born on May 1, 1924 in United States. Known for her work for IBM and the United States Space Technology Laboratories,...

36. Alexander Grothendieck (1928)

Mathematician

Mathematician known for creating the modern theory of algebraic geometry. His generalization of the classical Riemann-Roch theorem launched the study of algebraic and topological K-theory.

37. Paul Sally (1933)

Mathematician

Remembered for his work in the mathematical sub-fields of representation theory and p-adic analysis, this longtime University of Chicago professor also created both the Young Scholars Program and the Everyday...

38. Tyler Vigen (1991)

Mathematician

Creator of Spurious Correlations, a blog that makes correlations and inverse correlations between two very different events or things.

39. Harold Edwards (1936)

Mathematician

A famous mathematician who is most recognized for his work with number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of Mathematics.

40. Grigori Perelman (1966)

Mathematician

Russian mathematician known for his work in Riemannian geometry and geometric topology. In his life, he has proved several instrumental theorems.

41. Persi Diaconis (1945)

Mathematician

Persi Diaconis is a famous Mathematician, who was born on January 31, 1945 in United States. Professor of mathematics and part-time magician who takes a scientific approach to the art....

42. Charles Fefferman (1949)

Mathematician

Gifted mathematician who worked at Princeton University. He became known for his work in the sub-field of mathematical analysis.

43. Ngo Bao Chau (1972)

Mathematician

Ngo Bao Chau is a famous Mathematician, who was born on June 28, 1972 in Vietnam. Vietnamese-born mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal for his work on proving the...

44. Jacob Barnett (1998)

Mathematician

Child prodigy in the field of quantum physics known for being admitted to the Premier Institute for Theoretical Physics at the age of 15, the youngest person accepted to the...

45. Simon Lehna Singh (1964)

Mathematician

Math and science writer whose books include The Code Book and Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem.

46. Alexander Braverman (1974)

Mathematician

Alexander Braverman is an Israeli mathematician.

47. Katrin Wehrheim (1974)

Mathematician

Katrin Wehrheim is an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department. Her research centers around symplectic topology and gauge theory. She is well known for her work...

48. Gertrude Mary Cox (1900)

Mathematician

Gertrude Mary Cox was an influential American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute...

49. Thierry Goudon (1969)

Mathematician

Thierry Goudon is a French mathematician. He works in applied mathematics with interest in the study of Partial Differential Equations motivated from physics. He has made contributions on kinetic theory...

50. Alice T. Schafer (1915)

Mathematician

Alice Turner Schafer was an American mathematician. She was one of the founding members of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971.