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

historymath.com/anaximander

6th century BCE
Greece
Democedes of Crotona
Democedes of Crotona

Medicine, Science

historymath.com/democedes-of-crotona/

570-490 BC
Greece
Pythagoras

Pythagorean theorem

historymath.com/pythagoras

480 - 411 BC
Greece
Antiphon
antiphon black and white rendering

Quadrature

historymath.com/antiphon

470-410 BC
Ancient Greece
Hippocrates of Chios
Hippocrates

Squaring the Lune

historymath.com/hippocrates

384-322 BC
Ancient Greece
Aristotle
Aristotle

Philosophy

historymath.com/aristotle/

~ 300 BCE
Egypt
Euclid
Euclid

Father of Geometry

historymath.com/euclid/

287-212 BC
Ancient Greece
Archimedes
Archimedes

Father of Mathematics

historymath.com/archimedes/

262-190 BC
Ancient Greece
Apollonius of Perga
Apollonius of Perga

The Great Geometer

historymath.com/apollonius-of-perga

100-170
Roman Egypt
Ptolemy
Ptolemy

Astronomy, Geometry, Optics

historymath.com/ptolemy

~ 600 AD
india
Bhaskara I
bhaskara_I_ai_image

Trigonometry

historymath.com/bhaskara-i

700-784
Ireland, Austria
Vergilius of Salzburg

Astronomy

historymath.com/vergilius-of-salzburg

725-770
India
Brahmadeva
Brahmaveda

Astronomy, Mathematics

historymath.com/brahmadeva

746-806
Iraq (modern)
al-Fazārī

Astronomy

historymath.com/al-fazari

801-870
Iraq (modern)
al-Kindi

number theory

historymath.com/al-kindi

850-930
Egypt
Abu Kamil Shuja

number theory, quadratic eqns

historymath.com/abu-kamil-shuja

1170-1250
Italy
Fibonacci

Fibonacci sequences, arithmetic

historymath.com/fibonacci

1201-1274
Persia
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
nasar al-din al-tusi ai image

Trigonometry

historymath.com/nasar-al-din-al-tusi

1316-1390
Germany
Alfred of Saxony
Alfred of Saxony

Logic, Philosophy

historymath.com/alfred-of-saxony/

1416-1469
Croatia, Italy
Benedetto Cotrugli
Benedetto Cotrugli AI_image

Accounting

historymath.com/benedetto-cotrugli

1473-1543
Poland
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus

Modern astronomy

historymath.com/copernicus

1494-1575
Italy
Francesco Maurolico
maurolico_ai_image

Renaissance Polymath

historymath.com/maurolico

1540-1603
France
François Viète
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Modern algebra

historymath.com/francois-viete

1564-1642
Italy
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei

Polymath

historymath.com/galileo-galilei/

1571-1630
Germany
Johannes Kepler

Planetary motion, optics

historymath.com/johannes-kepler

1596-1650
France
René Descartes
rene descartes rendering

Analytical Geometry

historymath.com/rene-descartes

1607-1665
France
Pierre de Fermat
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Modern Mathematics

historymath.com/fermat

1630-1677
England
Isaac Barrow

Roots of Calculus

historymath.com/isaac-barrow

1643-1727
England
Sir Isaac Newton
Newton

Calculus, physics

historymath.com/sir-isaac-newton

1646 - 1716
Germany
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Calculus, Binary numeral system

historymath.com/gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz

1667-1773
Italy
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri
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Non-Euclidian Geometry

historymath.com/saccheri

1707–1783
Switzerland
Leonhard Euler

Calculus, Number theory

historymath.com/leonhard-euler

1736-1813
then Sardinia
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Lagrange

Mechanics, algebra, calculus, number theory

historymath.com/joseph-louis-lagrange/

1749-1827
France
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Celestial mechanics

historymath.com/pierre-simon-laplace/

1752-1833
France
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Legendre

Mathematician

historymath.com/adrien-marie-legendre/

1777–1855
Germany
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gauss

Calculus

historymath.com/carl-friedrich-gauss/

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
Alicia Boole Stott Irish Mathematician AI rendering

Geometry, polytopes

historymath.com/alicia-boole-stott

1862-1943
Germany
David Hilbert
hilbert_ai_image

Modern mathematics

historymath.com/david-hilbert

1868-1942
Germany
Felix Hausdorff
hausdorff_ai_image

Topology, set theory, and measure theory

historymath.com/felix-hausdorff

1874-1954
USA
Leonard Eugene Dickson
Dickson

Abstract algebra, number theory

historymath.com/leonard-eugene-dickson

1882-1935
Germany
Emmy Noether

Abstract algebra

historymath.com/emmy-noethert

1884-1944
USA
George David Birkhoff
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Abstract mathematics

historymath.com/birkhoff/

1887-1920
India
Srinivasa Ramanujan

Number theory, Infinite series

historymath.com/srinivasa-ramanujan

1912-1954
England
Alan Turing
turing_ai_image

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

1942-2018
England
Stephan Hawking
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Theoretical physics

historymath.com/stephen-hawking

1953-present
England
Andrew Wiles

Fermat's Last Theorem

historymath.com/andrew-wiles