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List of Famous Mathematicians

First Name	Last Name	Dates	Nationality	Known For
Évariste	Galois	25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832	French	Work on the Theory of Equations and Abelian Integrals
William Rowan	Hamilton	4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865	Irish	Hamiltonian Mechanics
Srinivasa	Ramanujan	22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920	Indian	Landau–Ramanujan Constant
Sophie	Germain	1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831	French	Elasticity Theory, Differential Geometry, Number Theory
René	Descartes	31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650	French	Analytical Geometry
Pierre-Simon	Laplace	23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827	French	Laplace's Equation & Tranforms
Pierre	De Fermat	17 August 1601 – 12 January 1665	French	Number Theory, Analytic Geometry, Fermat's Principle, Probability, Fermat's Last Theorem
Paul	Cohen	April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007	American	Cohen Forcing, Continuum Hypothesis
Omar	Khayyam	18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131	Persian	Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra
Niels Henrik	Abel	5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829	Norwegian	Abel's Binomial Theorem, Abelian Category, Abelian Variety
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-	Khwarizmi	c. 780 – c. 850 AD	Iranian	Treatises on Algebra and Indian Numerals
Maurits	Escher	17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972	Dutch	Drawing, Printmaking
Luca	Pacioli	c. 1447 – c. 1517	Italian	Summa de Arithmetica, De Divina Proportione
Liu	Hui	c. 225 AD – c. 295 AD	Chinese	The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
Leonhard	Euler	15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783	Swiss	Euler's Function, Euler's Equation, and Euler's Formula
Kurt	Gödel	April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978	Austrian, American	Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, Gödel's Completeness Theorem,
Julia	Robinson	December 8, 1919 – July 30, 1985	American	Diophantine Equations, Decidability
Joseph Louis	Lagrange	25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813	Italian	Analytical Mechanics, Celestial Mechanics, Mathematical Analysis, Number Theory
Joseph	Fourier	21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830	French	Fourier Series, Fourier Transform, Fourier's Law of Conduction
John	Napier	c. 1550 – 4 April 1617	Scottish	Logarithms, Napier's Bones, Decimal Notation
John	Nash	10392	American	Nash Equilibrium, Nash Embedding Theorem, Nash Functions, Nash–Moser Theorem
John	Venn	4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923	English	Venn Diagram
John	Von Neumann	December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957	Hungarian, American	Principal Member of the Manhattan Project
John	Wallis	23 November 1616 – 28 October 1703	English	Wallis Product, Inventing the Symbol ∞
Johann	Bernoulli	6 August 1667 – 1 January 1748	Swiss	Development of Infinitesimal Calculus, Catenary Solution, Bernoulli's Rule, Bernoulli's Identity
Jacob	Bernoulli	6 January 1655 – 16 August 1705	Swiss	Bernoulli Differential Equation, Bernoulli Numbers, Bernoulli's Formula
Isaac	Newton	4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727	English	Principia, Calculus
Henri	Poincaré	29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912	French	Poincaré Conjecture
Grigori	Perelman	24271	Russian	Riemannian Geometry, Geometric Topology, Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture
Grace Murray	Hopper	December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992	American	Invented First Compiler
Gottlob	Frege	8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925	German	Principle of Compositionality, Quantification Theory, Predicate Calculus
Gottfried	Leibniz	July 1, 1646 – November 14, 1716	German	Calculus, Monads, Best of all Possible Worlds, Leibniz Formula for π, Leibniz Harmonic Triangle
Giuseppe	Peano	27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932	Italian	Peano Axioms, Peano Curve, Peano Existence Theorem, Formulario Mathematico, Latino Sine Flexione
George	Boole	2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864	English	Boolean Algebra
Georg	Cantor	March 3, 1845 – January 6, 1918	German	Set Theory
Gaspard	Monge	9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818	French	Descriptive Geometry
G.H.	Hardy	February 1877 – 1 December 1947	English	Hardy-Weinberg Principle, Hardy–Ramanujan Asymptotic Formula
Filippo	Brunelleschi	c. 1377 – April 15, 1446	Italian	Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
Felix	Klein	25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925	German	Works in Group Theory, Complex Analysis, Non-Euclidean Geometry
Emanuel	Lasker	December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941	German	Mathematical Analysis of Card Games
Edward	Lorenz	23 May 1917 – 16 April 2008	American	Chaos Theory, Lorenz Attractor, Butterfly Effect
Edward	Witten	26th Aug 1951-	American	String Theory, M-Theory, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Field Theory, Supersymmetry
Edmund	Halley	8 November 1656 – 14 January 1742	English	Halley's Comet
David	Hilbert	23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943	German	Hilbert's Basis Theorem, Hilbert's Axioms, Hilbert's Problems, Hilbert's Program, Einstein–Hilbert Action, Hilbert Space
Daniel	Bernoulli	8 February 1700 – 17 March 1782	Swiss	Bernoulli's Principle
Charles	Babbage	26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871	English	Father of Computer
Carl Friedrich	Gauss	30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855	German	Multiple Things
Brook	Taylor	18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731	English	Taylor's Theorem
Blaise	Pascal	19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662	French	Pascal's Wager, Pascal's Triangle, Pascal's Law, Pascal's Theorem
Bertrand	Russell	18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970	British	Multiple Things
Bernhard	Riemann	September 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866	German	Contributions to Analysis, Number Theory, Differential Geometry
Benjamin	Banneker	November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806	American
Augustus	De Morgan	27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871	British	De Morgan's Laws, De Morgan Algebra, Relation Algebra, Universal Algebra
Augustin-Louis	Cauchy	21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857	French	Pioneer of Analysis
Arthur	Cayley	16 August 1821 – 26 January 1895	British	Algebraic Geometry, Group Theory, Cayley–Hamilton Theorem, Cayley–Dickson Construction
Andrew	Wiles	11th April 1953 -	British	Proving Fermat's Last Theorem
Alfred North	Whitehead	15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947	English	Principia Mathematica
Alexander	Grothendieck	28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014	German-born French	Algebraic Geometry
Albertus	Magnus	before 1200 – November 15, 1280	German
Albert	Einstein	14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955	German	General Relativity and Special Relativity
Alan	Turing	23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954	British	Cryptanalysis of the Enigma, Turing machine, Turing test
Ada	Lovelace	10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852	English	Analytical Engine
Abraham	De Moivre	26 May 1667 – November 27, 1754	French	De Moivre's formula, Theorem of de Moivre–Laplace
	Archimedes	c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC	Greek	Archimedes' Principle, Archimedes' Screw, Hydrostatics, Levers, Infinitesimals
	Aristotle	c. 384 – c. 322 BC	Greek	Golden Mean, Aristotelian Logic, Syllogism, Hexis, Hylomorphism, Theory of the soul
	Aryabhata	c. 476 – c. 550 CE	Indian	Explanation of Lunar Eclipse and Solar Eclipse, Rotation of Earth on its Axis
	Brahmagupta	c. 598–c.670 AD	Indian	Zero, Modern Number System
	Democritus	c. 460 – c. 370 BC	Ancient Greek
	Diophantus	c. 250 – c.  350 AD	Greek	Arithmetica
	Eratosthenes	c. 276 BC – c. 194 BC	Greek	First Person to Calculate the Circumference of the Earth
	Euclid	Mid-4th century BC – Mid-3rd century BC	Greek	Euclidean Geometry, Euclid's Elements, Euclidean Algorithm
	Heron Of Alexandria	c. 10 – c. 70 AD	Greek	Aeolipile
	Hipparchus	c. 190 – c. 120 BC	Greek	Founder of Trigonometry
	Madhava	c. 1340 – c. 1425	Indian	Discovery of power series expansions of trigonometric sine, cosine and arctangent functions
	Plato	c. 424/423 – c. 348/347 BC	Greek
	Ptolemy	c. 90 – c. 168 AD	Greco-Egyptian	Publishing The Amalgest
	Pythagoras	c. 570 – c. 495 BC	Ionian Greek	Pythagorean Theorem
	Thales	c. 624 – c. 546 BC	Greek	Thales' Theorem