On this website, we define a mathematician as any individual who has contributed to the world of mathematics.

All dates are estimated when not known exactly and this list is NOT complete.  We are adding to this timeline weekly.

610-546 BC
Turkey
Anaximander
anaximander

Geometry, boundlessness

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570-490 BC
Greece
Pythagoras

Pythagorean theorem

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480 - 411 BC
Greece
Antiphon
antiphon black and white rendering

Quadrature

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100-170
Roman Egypt
Ptolemy
Ptolemy

Astronomy, Geometry, Optics

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700-784
Ireland, Austria
Vergilius of Salzburg

Astronomy

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746-806
Iraq (modern)
al-Fazārī

Astronomy

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801-870
Iraq (modern)
al-Kindi

number theory

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850-930
Egypt
Abu Kamil Shuja

number theory, quadratic eqns

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1170-1250
Italy
Fibonacci

Fibonacci sequences, arithmetic

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1416-1469
Croatia, Italy
Benedetto Cotrugli
Benedetto Cotrugli AI_image

Accounting

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1571-1630
Germany
Johannes Kepler

Planetary motion, optics

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1596-1650
France
René Descartes
rene descartes rendering

Analytical Geometry

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1646 - 1716
Germany
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Calculus, Binary numeral system

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1707–1783
Switzerland
Leonhard Euler

Calculus, Number theory

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1749-1827
France
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Celestial mechanics

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1815-1852
England
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace

Computer programming, Algorithms 

historymath.com/ada-lovelace

1819-1903
Ireland
Sir George Stokes

Hydrodynamics

historymath.com/sir-george-stokes

1819-1904
Ireland
George Salmon

Algebraic geometry

historymath.com/george-salmon

1845-1918
Russia, Germany
Georg Cantor

Set theory, Infinity

historymath.com/georg-cantor

1860-1940
Ireland
Alicia Boole Stott
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Geometry, polytopes

historymath.com/alicia-boole-stott

1882-1935
Germany
Emmy Noether

Abstract algebra

historymath.com/emmy-noethert

1887-1920
India
Srinivasa Ramanujan

Number theory, Infinite series

historymath.com/srinivasa-ramanujan

1912-1954
England
Alan Turing

Cryptography, Computer science

historymath.com/alan-turing

1918-2010
Ireland
Sheila Tinney

First Irish-born and raised female to earn a Ph.D in Mathematics

historymath.com/sheila-tinney

1953-present
England
Andrew Wiles

Fermat's Last Theorem

historymath.com/andrew-wiles