| Fibonacci | | gave three fandamental laws of planetary motion, worked in optics and geometry |
| Copernicus | | French lawy who worked in the foundations of calculus |
| Einstein | | founder of symboli logic |
| Archimedes | | formulated the basic laws of falling bodies |
| Viete | | work in geometry had the greatest influence in that area after Euclid |
| Weierstrass | | Greek mathematician who wrote "The Elements" |
| Gateaux | | famous for work on prime numbers and for measuring the diameter of the earth |
| Polya | | constructed the theory of complex functions by means of power series |
| Galois | | initiated the study of quantum mechanics |
| Cantor | | investigated "integration in infinitely many dimensions" |
| Doppler | | Scottish scholar who invented logarithms |
| Fermat | | originator of algebraic topology |
| Poincare | | proved the stability of the solar system, put the theory of mathematical probability on a sound footing |
| Grassmann | | first to provide a rigorous proof that pi is irrational |
| Bolyai | | worked extensively in Fractal Geometry |
| Mandelbrot | | first to proof a famous right triangle theorem |
| Descartes | | theory of relativity |
| Pythagoras | | born in Italy, took part in the Los Alamos project to build the atomic bomb |
| Boole | | pseudonym for Charles Dodgson |
| Fermi | | between 1820 and 1823 prepared a treatise on a complete system of non-Euclidean geometry |
| Kepler | | inventor of pulleys and a screw pumping device |
| Eratosthenes | | father of differential geometry |
| Napier | | established the science of hydrodynamics |
| Euclid | | Polish astronomer and mathematician who proposed the earth's yearly motion around a stationary sun |
| Hilbert | | Contributed to the theory of elliptical functional |
| Chebyshev | | pioneered the theory of permutation groups |
| Jacobi | | recent mathematician who worked in probability, analysis, number theory, geometry, combinatorics, and mathematical physics |
| Planck | | "I think, therefore I am." |
| LordRaleigh | | German mathematician who developed the present day notation for the differential and integral calculus |
| Cauchy | | founded set theory |
| Lobachevsky | | produced a method of determining when a general equation could be solved by radicals |
| Laplace | | investigated number theory, famous for orthogonal polynomials |
| Monge | | published a paper which considered both the motion of the source and the motion of the observer on the apparent pitch of sound |
| Lasker | | worked on the theory of waves, discovered the gas Argon |
| Carroll | | developed a general calculus for vectors |
| Peano | | world chess champion who introduced the notion of a primary ideal |
| Leibniz | | approached logic by reducing it to simple algebra |
| Lambert | | first account on non-Euclidian geometry to appear in print |
| Galileo | | introduced the Hindu-Arabic place-valued decimal system and the use of Arabic numerals into Europe |
| Stokes | | French mathematician who introduced the first systematic algebraic notation |
