| Mathematician Name |
During |
Nationality |
Known for |
| Pythagoras |
c. 580 BC – 572 BC |
Asia Minor |
Pythagorean theorem |
| Xenocrates |
396–314 BC |
Chalcedon |
Developed the philosophy of Plato |
| Euclid |
born 300 BC |
Greek |
Euclidean geometry, Euclid's Elements |
| Eratosthenes |
c. 276 BC -195 BC |
Greek |
first Greek to calculate the circumference of the Earth |
| Diophantus |
200 CE - 298 CE |
Greek |
the father of algebra |
| Al-Khwarizmi |
|
Persian |
His Algebra, written around 820, was the first book on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations |
| Cardano |
1501-1576 |
Italy |
algebra |
| Kepler |
1571-1630 |
Germany |
Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Kepler conjecture |
| Pascal |
1623-1662 |
French |
Notable ideas Pascal's Wager, Pascal's triangle, Pascal's law |
| Euler |
1707-1783 |
Switzerland |
Euler's formula |
| Laplace |
1749-1827 |
France |
Work in Celestial Mechanics |
| Gauss |
1777-1855 |
German |
Gauss (unit), a unit of magnetic field (B) |
| Babbage |
1791-1871 |
England |
Mathematics, computing |
| Venn |
1834-1923 |
British |
Venn is commemorated at the University of Hull by the Venn Building |
| Hilbert, David |
1862-1943 |
Germany |
Hilbert's basis theorem |
| Ramanujan, Srinivasa |
1887-1920 |
British |
Landau-Ramanujan constant |
