Lists of mathematicians

This list provides a selection of important mathematicians of mathematicians from ancient to contemporary represents the selection of the mathematician is guided by their academic achievements or to the reputation, due to their interest in them is met with in mathematics historical observations in schools or colleges.

Until well into the Renaissance mathematicians were mostly facing as several scholars sciences, they were often at the same time philosophers, engineers, astronomers and astrologers. This Polyhistorismus more over the centuries, so that the time of rationalism mathematicians often only a second science also studied and operated. Most theology or physics was chosen as another field of activity because of their thematic relationship. Since the 19th century this trend continued, so that the presence mathematicians often operate only in a few areas of mathematics research.

Antiquity

Middle Ages

In the period, which is called from a Eurocentric point of view as the Middle Ages, brought mainly scholars from the Arab- Persian world produces new insights and developed the mathematics of the Greeks on. It was not until the late Middle Ages parts of the Islamic mathematics sat down gradually in Christian Europe. The most significant mathematical achievement of the Islamic mathematician lies in the grounds of today's algebra.

Early Modern Times

19th century

In the 19th century mathematics began as an abstract own science, freed to develop some of the physics. It developed new branches of mathematics such as the theory of functions. It is also characteristic a new rigor in mathematical proof. Cauchy founded the limit flawless definition and presented as the analysis on a rigorous basis. By the authority of Carl Friedrich Gauss the complex numbers found their full recognition in mathematics.

Through founded by Georg Cantor set theory and the development of the foundations of formal logic, including by George Boole in England and Ernst Schröder and Gottlob Frege in Germany, the mathematics were introduced in the 19th century development outputs whose full significance only in the impacting the 20th century began.

20th century

To avoid redundancy, only those mathematicians are added, which have been found for the further progress of mathematics as particularly influential.

Classical antiquity Thales Thales' theorem Physician Method of exhaustion Pyramid (geometry) Euclidean geometry Euclidean algorithm Archimedes Apollonius of Perga Algebraic equation Diophantine equation Hero of Alexandria Aryabhata Brahmagupta Brahmagupta theorem Parallel postulate Magic square Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī Trigonometry Unit circle Li Ye (mathematician) Horner's method Square root Binomial coefficient Analog computer Astrolabe Regiomontanus Gerolamo Cardano Vieta's formulas Prism (geometry) John Wallis Blaise Pascal Japanese mathematics Jacob Bernoulli Power series Integral symbol Isaac Newton Johann Bernoulli Differential equation Brachistochrone curve Recurrence relation Gaspard Monge Laplace's equation Adrien-Marie Legendre Irrational number Legendre polynomials Thermal conduction Telecommunications engineering Complex analysis Mathematical rigor#Mathematical rigour Mathematical analysis Bernard Bolzano Cauchy sequence Statics Analytic geometry Elliptic integral Elliptic function Abelian integral Dirichlet's unit theorem Mechanics Ballistics Arthur Cayley Leopold Kronecker Finitism Bernhard Riemann Mathematical physics Analytic number theory Richard Dedekind Dedekind cut Fractal Cantor set Cantor medal Mathematics education Klein four-group Algebraic topology David Hilbert Formalism (mathematics) Hermann Minkowski Felix Hausdorff Intuitionistic logic Emmy Noether Noether normalization lemma Noether's theorem Hermann Weyl Stefan Banach Functional analysis Banach space Algebraic geometry Weil conjectures Theoretical computer science Atle Selberg Jean-Pierre Serre Fields Medal Alexander Grothendieck Barry Mazur Richard Taylor (mathematician) Topology (disambiguation) List of physicists Lists of engineers Ioan James Siegfried Gottwald

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