30+ Brilliant Mathematicians Who Unlocked the Modern World

Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science.

Isaac Newton was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and author widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time.

Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, and inventor. He is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.

Leonhard Euler was a mathematician who made pioneering and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics.

Poincaré was a mathematician and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as “The Last Universalist.”

Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a mathematician who made pioneering contributions to mathematical analysis and continuum mechanics.

Bernhard Riemann was a mathematician who made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

Georg Cantor was a German mathematician. He created set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.

Arthur Cayley was a mathematician who worked mostly on algebra. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics.

Sir William Rowan Hamilton was a mathematician who made major contributions to optics, classical mechanics and abstract algebra.

Max Eisenstein was a German mathematician. He specialized in number theory and analysis, and proved several results that eluded even Gauss.

Blaise Pascal was a mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and writer. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father.

Henrik Abel was a mathematician who first completed the proof of the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.

David Hilbert was a German mathematician and one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Felix Klein was a mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry.

Leibniz was a polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat. He is also the father of calculus.

René Descartes was a mathematician who invented analytic geometry, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra.

Galois was a mathematician and he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals.

August Ferdinand Möbius was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. He is best known for his discovery of the Möbius strip.

Jacob Bernoulli was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus.