The Greatest Mathematicians of All

Time
ranked in approximate order of "greatness."
To qualify, the mathematician must be born before 1930 and his work must have
breadth, depth, and historical importance.
1. Isaac Newton

22. Peter G. L. Dirichlet

42. George Boole

2. Carl F. Gauss

23. Hermann K. H. Weyl

43. Franois Vite

3. Leonhard Euler

24. Eudoxus of Cnidus

44. Stefan Banach

4. Archimedes

25. Georg Cantor

45. Ferdinand Eisenstein

5. Bernhard Riemann

26. Muhammed alKhowrizmi

46. Jean le Rond d'Alembert

6. Isaac Newton

47. Jacques Hadamard

27. Arthur Cayley

7. Carl F. Gauss

48. Gaspard Monge

28. Emma Noether

8. Leonhard Euler

49. Johannes Kepler

29. Pythagoras of Samos

9. Archimedes

50. Jacob Bernoulli

30. Leonardo `Fibonacci'

10. Bernhard Riemann

51. lie Cartan

31. Kurt Gdel

11. Alexandre Grothendieck

52. Joseph Fourier

32. Apollonius of Perga

12. Pierre de Fermat

53. Liu Hui

33. Aryabhatta

13. Niels Abel

54. Jean-Victor Poncelet

34. Charles Hermite

14. variste Galois

55. Archytas of Tarentum

35. Blaise Pascal

15. John von Neumann

56. Andr Weil

36. Pierre-Simon Laplace

16. Karl W. T. Weierstrass

57. Hipparchus of Nicaea

37. Richard Dedekind

17. Ren Dscartes

58. Godfrey H. Hardy

18. Augustin Cauchy

38. Diophantus of
Alexandria

59. Simon-Denis Poisson

19. Carl G. J. Jacobi

39. Felix Christian Klein

60. Julius Plcker

20. Srinivasa Ramanujan

40. William R. Hamilton

61. F.E.J. mile Borel

21. Brahmagupta

41. Bhscara chrya

62. Andrey N. Kolmogorov

63. Christiaan Huygens

78. Adrien M. Legendre

93. Alan M. Turing

64. Alhazen ibn al-Haytham

79. Giuseppe Peano

94. Thales of Miletus

65. John Wallis

80. James J. Sylvester

95. Paul Erds

66. L.E.J. Brouwer

81. Johann Bernoulli

96. Ernst E. Kummer

67. Michael F. Atiyah

82. Atle Selberg

97. Emil Artin

68. Pappus of Alexandria

83. Pafnuti Chebyshev

98. Nicolai Lobachevsky

69. M. E. Camille Jordan

84. Shiing-Shen Chern

99. Alexis C. Clairaut

70. Henri Lon Lebesgue

85. Francesco B. Cavalieri

100.
Jean Gaston
Darboux

71. John E. Littlewood

86. Omar al-Khayym

72. Carl Ludwig Siegel

87. Hermann Minkowski

Albert Einstein

73. Jakob Steiner

88. Hippocrates of Chios

James C. Maxwell

74. Joseph Liouville

89. Johann H. Lambert

Galileo Galilei

75. Girolamo Cardano

90. Thabit ibn Qurra

Aristotle

76. Hermann G. Grassmann

91. Marius Sophus Lie

Abu Rayhan Biruni

77. Jean-Pierre Serre

92. Panini (of Shalatula)

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