B.C.

600 Thales
569 Pythagoras
495 Zeno
470 Hippocrates
428 Plato
408 Eudoxus
384 Aristotle
330 Euclid
250 Eratosthenes
287 Archimedes
262 Apollonius
262 Hypsicles
180 Hipparchus
180 Marinus

A.D.

100 Nichomachus
100 Diophantus
100 Ptolemy
370 Hypatia
825 al-Khowârizmî
1048 Khayyam, Omar
1114 Bhaskara
1180 Fibonacci, Leonardo
1201 al-Din, Nasir (al-Tusi)
1300 Shije, Zhu
1430 al-Kashi, Jemshid
1452 da Vinci, Leonardo
1465 Ferro, Scipio
1473 Copernicus, Nicolaus
1499 Tartaglia (Nicolo  Fontana)
1501 Cardano, Girolamo
1540 Viète, Fran?ois
1548 Stevin, Simon
1546 Brahe, Tycho
1550 Napier, John
1560 Harriot, Thomas
1564 Galilei, Galileo
1571 Kepler, Johannes
1574 Oughtred, William
1591 Desargues, Gérard
1596 Descartes, René
1598  Cavalieri, Bonaventura
1601  Fermat, Pierre de
1616  Wallis, John
1623  Pascal, Blaise
1629  Huygens, Christian
1630 Barrow, Isaac
1638  Gregory, James
1642  Newton, Isaac
1646  Leibniz, Gottfried
1654 Bernoulli, Jakob (James)
1661 L’Hospital, Marquis de
1667 Bernoulli, Johann (John)
1667 De Moivre, Abraham
1685 Taylor, Brook
1698 MacLaurin, Colin

1700 Bernoulli, Daniel
1706  Châtelet, Emilie du
1707 Euler, Leonhard
1713 Clairaut, Alexis Claud
1717 d’Alembert, Jean-le-Rond
1718  Agnesi, Maria
1731 Banneker, Benjamin
1736  Lagrange, Joseph
1749  Laplace, Pierre de
1768 Fourier, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
1773 Bowditch, Nathaniel
1776  Germain, Sophie
1777  Gauss, Carl
1780  Sommerville, Mary Fairfax
1781 Poisson, Simeon
1788 Poncelet, Jean Victor
1790  Möbius, August
1791  Babbage, Charles
1802 Abel, Niels Henrik
1804 Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob
1805 Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune
1811 Galois, Évariste
1814 Sylvester, James Joseph
1815  Boole, George
1815 Lovelace, Ada Byron
1815 Weierstrass, Theodor Wilhelm
1821  Cayley, Arthur
1823 Kronecker, Leopold
1826  Riemann, Bernhard
1831  Garfield, James
1831 Dedekind, Richard
1845  Cantor, Georg
1849 Klein, Felix
1850  Kovalevskaya , Sonya
1854  Poincaré, Henri
1858  Scott, Charlotte A
1861 Whitehead, Alfred North
1862 Hilbert, David
1864 Minkowski, Hermann
1865  Hadamard, Jacques
1868  Young, Grace C
1872 Russell, Bertrand
1877 Jeans, James
1879  Einstein, Albert
1882 Noether, Amalie Emmy
1883 Keynes, Maynard
1884 Birkhoff, George
1885 Weyl, Hermann
1887  Polya, George
1887 Ramanujan, Srinivasa
1898  Escher, M.C.
1903 Neumann, John von
1906  Gödel, Kurt
1906  Hopper, Grace M.
1906 Lorenz, Edward
1919 Robinson, Julia
1919 Feigenbaum, Mitchell

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