Famous Mathematicians List

Before I begin with the list of famous mathematicians, here is something I would like to put forth. 'Mathematics' - the most dreaded subject any student has to cope with and fare well in it. Well, when viewed from the eyes of a student, this subject is nothing more than a bag stuffed with challenges. When I was a student, mathematics was not on my good books. I did not fancy the idea of sitting down with tons of sheet and practice different kinds of mind-grueling sums of numbers and expressions. Perhaps, I did not fear my mother, so much as I did this subject of mathematics during my exams. But little that I know about the power of knowledge which this subject had immersed in it. All the wonders of science which we get to witness around us; this very computer which I am using now, the mobile phone on my desk, the fancy cars and bikes, and other numerous of inventions, have all sprang out from the depths of 'Mathematics'. It has given an image to the innumerable forces of nature, and it has offered us humans, with the power to uncover the unknown and understand the inexplicable.

List of Some Famous Geniuses in the Filed of Mathematics

When we speak about the most famous mathematician list, whose names pop in our mind? Well, in mine, the names have to be:

• Sir Isaac Newton
• Albert Einstein
• Archimedes
• Euclid
• Pythagoras
• Blaise Pascal
• Aryabhatta
• Ramanujam
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Charles Babbage

Apart from these brainiacs, there are a lot of other people whose names, you probably have never heard of. The below list that I have compiled would try to put down the names of all the great mathematician who have made their contributions in some way or the other.

The list mentioned below follows an alphabetical order and not one which might signify the position of the mathematicians.

• Abram Besicovitch
• Adrien M. Legendre
• Alain Connes
• Alan Baker
• Alexander Grothendieck
• Alexis C. Clairaut
• Alhazen ibn al-Haytham
• André Weil
• Andrei Okounkov
• Andrey N. Kolmogorov
• Antiphon
• Apastamba
• Apollonius of Perga
• Archytas
• Aristotle
• Arthur Cayley
• Augustin Cauchy
• Bernhard Riemann
• Bháscara Áchárya
• Brahmagupta
• Carl Bjerknes
• Carl G. J. Jacobi
• Carl Ludwig Siegel
• Charles Hermite
• Christiaan Huygens
• Claude Bachet
• Daniel Bernoulli
• David Hilbert
• Diophantus of Alexandria
• Élie Cartan
• Emma Noether
• Enrico Bombieri
• Eudoxus of Cnidus
• Évariste Galois
• Felix Christian Klein
• Ferdinand Eisenstein
• Francesco B. Cavalieri
• François Viète
• Galileo Galilei
• Gaspard Monge
• Georg Cantor
• George Boole
• Gerard Desargues
• Girolamo Cardano
• Giuseppe Peano
• Godfrey H. Hardy
• Gottfried W. Leibniz
• Harry Bateman
• Henri Léon Lebesgue
• Henri Poincaré
• Hermann G. Grassmann
• Hermann K. H. Weyl
• Hermann Minkowski
• Hipparchus of Nicaea
• Hippocrates of Chios
• Isaac Barrow
• Isadore M. Singer
• Jacob Bernoulli
• Jacques Hadamard
• Jacques Tits
• Jean le Rond d'Alembert
• Jean-Pierre Serre
• Jean-Victor Poncelet
• Johann Bernoulli
• Johann H. Lambert
• Johannes Kepler
• John Bell
• John E. Littlewood
• John G. Thompson
• John Tate
• John von Neumann
• John Wallis
• Joseph Bertrand
• Joseph Emile Barbier
• Joseph Fourier
• Joseph Liouville
• Joseph-Louis Lagrange
• Julius Plücker
• Karl W. T. Weierstrass
• Klaus Friedrich Roth
• Kunihiko Kodaira
• Kurt Gödel
• L.E.J. Brouwer
• Lars V. Hörmander
• Lars Valerian Ahlfors
• Laurent Lafforgue
• Laurent Schwarts
• Lennart Carleson
• Leonardo `Fibonacci'
• Liu Hui
• M. E. Camille Jordan
• Michael F. Atiyah
• Michael Francis Atiyah
• Mikhail Gromov
• Muhammed al-Khowârizmi
• Niels Abel
• Pafnuty Chebyshev
• Pappus of Alexandria
• Paul Erdös
• Peter D. Lax
• Peter G. L. Dirichlet
• Pierre de Fermat
• Pierre René Deligne
• Pierre-Louis Lions
• Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Pythagoras of Samos
• René Déscartes
• Richard Dedekind
• Richard E. Borcherds
• S. R. Srinivas Varadhan
• Shiing-Shen Chern
• Siméon-Denis Poisson
• Simon Donaldson
• Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Stefan Banach
• Thales of Miletus
• Vladimir Drinfeld
• William R. Hamilton
• Wilhelm Bessel

Hope, you have found the above lists of famous mathematicians substantial and informative. This list can be regarded to be the tip of an iceberg, as there are lots of other names which at some point or the other, have made great contributions in the 'galaxial' filed of mathematics!

"Mathematics is well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose."- Albert Einstein