Timeline of Mathematicians 1700 B.C.E. Ahmes (c. 1650 B.C.E.) 700 B.C.E. 600 B.C.E. Thales of Miletus (c. 630-c 550) Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 490) 500 B.C.E. Socrates (469-399) 400 B.C.E. Plato (427-347) Eudoxus of Cnidos (c. 400-c. 347) Aristotle (384-322) 300 B.C.E. Euclid (fl. c. 295) Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212) Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195) 100 B.C.E. Zeno of Sidon (c. 79 BCE) 100 C.E. Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) (c. 100-c. 170) 200 C.E. Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 250?) 300 C.E. 1 Pappus of Alexandria (fl. c. 300-c. 350) Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370-415) 900 Abu l-Quasim Maslama ibn Ahmad al-Faradi al-Majriti (fl. 980-1000) 1000 `Umar al-Khayyami (Omar Khayyam) (c. 1048-c. 1131) 1100 Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa (C. 1170-post 1240) 1300 William of Ockham (c. 1285-c. 1349) 1400 Piero della Francesca (c. 1410-1492) Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Scipione del Ferro (1465-1526) Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) 1500 Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) Robert Recorde (1510-1558) Gerardus Mercator (Kremer) (1512-1594) Ludovico Ferrari (1522-1565) 1550 Franois Vite (Vieta) (1540-1603) Ludolph van Ceulen (1540-1610) John Napier (1550-1617) Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Henry Briggs (1561-1631) Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 1600 Ren du Perron Descartes (1596-1650) 2 Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) John Wallis (1616-1703) Nicolas Mercator (Kaufman) (1620-1687) Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 1650 Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) James Gregory (1638-1675) Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) 1675 Jacques Bernoulli (James, Jakob) (1654-1705) Jean Bernoulli (John, Johann) (1667-1748) 1700 Nicholas Bernoulli (1687-1759) (nephew of Jean) Christian Goldbach (1690-1764) 1725 Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) 1750 Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) Edward Waring (1734-1798) Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) 1775 Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) 1800 Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) August Leopold Crelle (1780-1855) 3 1810 William Hamilton (1788-1856) Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) Augusus Ferdinand Mbius (1790-1868) George Green (1793-1841) 1820 Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804-1851) 1830 William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880) Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) variste Galois (1811-1832) Auguste Bravais (1811-1863) James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) 1840 Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) Charles Hermite (1822-1901) Zacharias Dase (1824-1861) 1850 Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) 1860 Franois Marius Sophus Lie (1842-1899) Victor Schlegel (1843-1905) 1870 Georg Cantor (1845-1918) Christian Felix Klein (1849-1925) Carl Louis Ferdinand Lindemann (1852-1939) Jules Henri Poincar (1854-1912) 4 1880 Thomas Jan Stieltjes (1856-1894) Andrei Andreyevich Markov (1856-1922) Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947) John Charles Fields (1863-1932) 1890 Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963) Charles-Jean de la Valle Poussin (1866-1962) Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (1871-1951) Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874-1954) 1900 Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Otto Szsz (1884-1952) 1910 Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan (1887-1920) George Plya (1887-1985) 1920 5.