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Mathematicians Timeline Rikitar¯oFujisawa Otto Hesse Kunihiko Kodaira Friedrich Shottky Viktor Bunyakovsky Pavel Aleksandrov Hermann Schwarz Mikhail Ostrogradsky Alexey Krylov Heinrich Martin Weber Nikolai Lobachevsky David Hilbert Paul Bachmann Felix Klein Rudolf Lipschitz Gottlob Frege G Perelman Elwin Bruno Christoffel Max Noether Sergei Novikov Heinrich Eduard Heine Paul Bernays Richard Dedekind Yuri Manin Carl Borchardt Ivan Lappo-Danilevskii Georg F B Riemann Emmy Noether Vladimir Arnold Sergey Bernstein Gotthold Eisenstein Edmund Landau Issai Schur Leoplod Kronecker Paul Halmos Hermann Minkowski Hermann von Helmholtz Paul Erd}os Rikitar¯oFujisawa Otto Hesse Kunihiko Kodaira Vladimir Steklov Karl Weierstrass Kurt G¨odel Friedrich Shottky Viktor Bunyakovsky Pavel Aleksandrov Andrei Markov Ernst Eduard Kummer Alexander Grothendieck Hermann Schwarz Mikhail Ostrogradsky Alexey Krylov Sofia Kovalevskya Andrey Kolmogorov Moritz Stern Friedrich Hirzebruch Heinrich Martin Weber Nikolai Lobachevsky David Hilbert Georg Cantor Carl Goldschmidt Ferdinand von Lindemann Paul Bachmann Felix Klein Pafnuti Chebyshev Oscar Zariski Carl Gustav Jacobi F Georg Frobenius Peter Lax Rudolf Lipschitz Gottlob Frege G Perelman Solomon Lefschetz Julius Pl¨ucker Hermann Weyl Elwin Bruno Christoffel Max Noether Sergei Novikov Karl von Staudt Eugene Wigner Martin Ohm Emil Artin Heinrich Eduard Heine Paul Bernays Richard Dedekind Yuri Manin 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 Carl Borchardt Ivan Lappo-Danilevskii Georg F B Riemann Emmy Noether Vladimir Arnold August Ferdinand M¨obius George P´olya Sergey Bernstein Gotthold Eisenstein Edmund Landau Friedrich W Bessel Diederik Korteweg Benoit Mandelbrot Issai Schur Leoplod Kronecker Paul Halmos Bernard Bolzano Albert Einstein Heinz Hopf Rikitar¯oFujisawa Otto Hesse Kunihiko Kodaira Hermann Minkowski Hermann von Helmholtz Paul Erd}os Johann Carl Freidrich Gauss Thomas Stieltjes John von Neumann Friedrich Shottky Viktor Bunyakovsky Pavel Aleksandrov Vladimir Steklov Karl Weierstrass Kurt G¨odel J´anosBolyai Carl Ludwig Siegel Hermann Schwarz Mikhail Ostrogradsky Alexey Krylov Andrei Markov Ernst Eduard Kummer Alexander Grothendieck Farkas Bolyai Waclaw Sierpinski Heinrich Martin Weber Nikolai Lobachevsky David Hilbert Sofia Kovalevskya Andrey Kolmogorov Moritz Stern Friedrich Hirzebruch Johann Bartels Gustav Roch Felix Hausdorff Vaughan Jones Paul Bachmann Felix Klein Georg Cantor Carl Goldschmidt Ferdinand von Lindemann Johann Friedrich Pfaff Rudolof Sturm Robert Langlands Rudolf Lipschitz Gottlob Frege G Perelman Pafnuti Chebyshev Oscar Zariski Carl Gustav Jacobi F Georg Frobenius Peter Lax Hermann Grassmann Ren´eFr´echet Elwin Bruno Christoffel Max Noether Sergei Novikov Solomon Lefschetz Julius Pl¨ucker Hermann Weyl Karl von Langsdorf Henri L´eon Lebesgue Alain Connes Heinrich Eduard Heine Paul Bernays Richard Dedekind Yuri Manin Karl von Staudt Eugene Wigner Georg Simon Kl¨ugel Victor Alexandre Puiseux Stefan Banach Carl Borchardt Ivan Lappo-Danilevskii Georg F B Riemann Emmy Noether Vladimir Arnold Martin Ohm Emil Artin Abraham Gotthelf K¨astner Pierre Ossian Bonnet Richard Courant Sergey Bernstein Gotthold Eisenstein Edmund Landau 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 August Ferdinand M¨obius George P´olya Eug`eneCatalan Alfred Tarski Issai Schur Leoplod Kronecker Paul Halmos Rikitar¯oFujisawa Otto Hesse Kunihiko Kodaira Friedrich W Bessel Diederik Korteweg Benoit Mandelbrot Pierre Laurent Paul Painlev´e M Mirzakhani Hermann Minkowski Hermann von Helmholtz Paul Erd}os Friedrich Shottky Viktor Bunyakovsky Pavel Aleksandrov Bernard Bolzano Albert Einstein Heinz Hopf Evariste Galois Emile´ Picard Ingrid Daubechies Vladimir Steklov Karl Weierstrass Kurt G¨odel Hermann Schwarz Mikhail Ostrogradsky Alexey Krylov Johann Carl Freidrich Gauss Thomas Stieltjes John von Neumann Peter Dirichlet Emile Borel C´edricVillani Andrei Markov Ernst Eduard Kummer Alexander Grothendieck Heinrich Martin Weber Nikolai Lobachevsky David Hilbert J´anosBolyai Carl Ludwig Siegel Adrien-Marie Legendre Marius Sophus Lie George Batchelor Moritz Stern Sofia Kovalevskya Andrey Kolmogorov Friedrich Hirzebruch Christiaan Huygens Paul Bachmann Felix Klein Farkas Bolyai Waclaw Sierpinski Christian Hausen Pierre-S Laplace Felix Savart Jean Gaston Darboux Jean-Pierre Serre Georg Cantor Carl Goldschmidt Ferdinand von Lindemann Rudolf Lipschitz Gottlob Frege G Perelman Johann Bartels Gustav Roch Felix Hausdorff Vaughan Jones Johannes Kepler Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gaspard Monge Joseph Bertrand Andre Weil Pafnuti Chebyshev Oscar Zariski Carl Gustav Jacobi F Georg Frobenius Peter Lax Elwin Bruno Christoffel Max Noether Sergei Novikov Johann Friedrich Pfaff Rudolof Sturm Robert Langlands Blaise Pascal Joseph-Louis Lagrange Charles Hermite Henri Cartan Solomon Lefschetz Julius Pl¨ucker Hermann Weyl Heinrich Eduard Heine Paul Bernays Richard Dedekind Yuri Manin Hermann Grassmann Ren´eFr´echet Gilles Personne de Roberval Alexandre Vandermonde Joseph Liouville L E J Brower Karl von Staudt Eugene Wigner Carl Borchardt Ivan Lappo-Danilevskii Georg F B Riemann Emmy Noether Vladimir Arnold Karl von Langsdorf Henri L´eon Lebesgue Alain Connes Ren´eDescartes Etienne´ B´ezout Augustin Cauchy Charles de la Vall´ee-Poisson Martin Ohm Emil Artin 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 Sergey Bernstein Gotthold Eisenstein Edmund Landau ZhuGeorg Shijie Simon Kl¨ugel Victor Alexandre Puiseux Stefan Banach Gerard Desargues Johann Lambert Sim´eonDenis Poisson Jacques Hadamard T Tao August Ferdinand M¨obius George P´olya Issai Schur LeoplodZu Chongzhi Kronecker VarahamihiraPaul Halmos Sankara Narayana GuoAbraham Shoujing Gotthelf K¨astnerNicole OresmePierre Ossian Bonnet Richard CourantNicolaus Copernicus Catherine de Parthenay Georg Mohr Alexis Claude Clairaut Marie-Sophie Germain Henri Poincar´e C´ecileDeWitt-Morette Friedrich W Bessel Diederik Korteweg Benoit Mandelbrot Hermann Minkowski HermannZhang vonQiujian Helmholtz YativrsabhaPaul Erd}os Li Chunfeng Prthudakasvami Shen Kua Yang Hui MadhavaEug`eneCatalan RegiomontatusAlfred Tarski Francios Vi´ete Pierre de Fermat Emilie du Ch^atelet Jean-Baptiste Biot Elie´ Joseph Cartan Yitang Zhang Bernard Bolzano Albert Einstein Heinz Hopf Liu Xin Cai Yong Vladimir Steklov XiahouKarl Yang Weierstrass AryabhataKurt G¨odel I Bhaskara I Mahavira Aryabhata II Jia Xian Bhaskara II Li Zhi NarayanaPierre Laurent NicholasPaul Painlev´e of Cusa JyesthadevaM Mirzakhani Marin Mersenne Abraham de Moivre J-B Joseph Fourier Camille Jordan Shing-Tung Yau Mathematicians 630 BCE - 1705 CE Johann Carl Freidrich Gauss Thomas Stieltjes John von Neumann Manava Apastamba Jin Fang Zhang Heng Liu HuiAndrei Markov SunErnst Zi Eduard KummerKatyayana Alexander GrothendieckBrahmagupta Govindasvami Sridhara Vijayanandi Sripati Brahmadeva Qin Jiushao EvaristeMahendra Galois Suri ´ Nilakantha Ingrid Daubechies Xu Guang-qi G. de l'H^opital Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Jean-Marie Duhamel Shiing-Shen Chern J´anosBolyai Carl Ludwig Siegel Emile Picard Sofia Kovalevskya Andrey Kolmogorov Moritz Stern Friedrich Hirzebruch Peter Dirichlet Emile Borel C´edricVillani Farkas Bolyai Waclaw Sierpinski −760 −740 −720 −700 −680 −660 −640 −620 −600 −580 −560 −540 −520 −500 −480 −460 −440 −420 −400 −380 −360 −340 −320 −300 −280 −260 −240 −220 −200 −180 −160 −140 −120 −100 −80 −60 −40 −20 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 Georg240 Cantor260 280 300 320 340 360 380 400Carl Goldschmidt420 440 460Ferdinand480 von500 Lindemann520 540 560 580 600 620 640 660 680 700 720 740 760 780 800 820 840 860 880 900 920 940 960 980 1000 1020 1040 1060 1080 1100 1120 1140 1160 1180 1200 1220 1240 1260 1280 1300Adrien-Marie1320 1340 Legendre1360 1380Marius1400 Sophus1420 Lie1440 1460George1480 Batchelor1500 1520 1540 1560 1580 1600 1620 1640 1660 1680 1700 1720 1740 1760 1780 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 Johann Bartels Gustav Roch Felix Hausdorff Vaughan Jones Thales of Miletus Hippocrates of Chios Dinostratus Archimedes of Syracuse Hipparchus of Nicaea Heron of Alexandria Menelaus of Alexandria DiophantusPafnuti Chebyshev of Alexandria OscarPappus Zariski of Alexandria HypatiaCarl of Alexandria Gustav Jacobi FZu Georg Geng Frobenius Peter Lax Wang Xiaotong Al'Khwarizmi Al-Battani Abu'l-Wafa Omar Khayyam Al-SamawalChristiaan HuygensNasir al-TusiChristian Hausen Pierre-S Laplace Felix Savart FilippoJean Gaston Brunelleschi DarbouxLuca PacioliJean-Pierre Serre Galileo Galilei Jacopo Riccati Giovanni Plana Srinivasa Ramanujan Roger Penrose Johann Friedrich Pfaff Rudolof Sturm Robert Langlands Pythagoras of Samos Socrates Eudoxus of Cnidus Euclid of Alexandria Apollonius of Perga Claudius Ptolemy Solomon Lefschetz Theon of Alexandria Julius Pl¨ucker Hermann Weyl Banu Musa Muhammad Ibrahim ibn Sinan Abu Nasr Mansur RabbiJohannes Ben Ezra Kepler LeonardoGottfried Fibonacci Wilhelm Leibniz Al-FarisiGaspard Monge Joseph BertrandJamshid al-Kashi AndreScipione Weil del Ferro Bonaventura Cavalieri Joseph Raphson Maria Agnesi Eugenio Beltrami P.A.M. Dirac Hermann Grassmann Ren´eFr´echet Hippasus of Metapontum Plato Eratosthenes of Cyrene Karl von Staudt Eugene Wigner Al-Jawhari Al-Quhi Sharaf al-TusiBlaise Pascal Ibn al-BannaJoseph-Louis Lagrange Charles HermiteUlugh Beg Henri Cartan Nicolo Tartaglia Evangelista Torricelli Giovanni Saccheri Lorenzo Mascheroni Felice Casorti Alan Turing Stephen Wolfram Karl von Langsdorf Henri L´eon Lebesgue Alain Connes Martin Ohm Emil Artin Zeno of Elea Aristotle 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980
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