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The Nine Greatest Mathematicians
This page presents summary biographical information for each
of the nine mathematicians selected. The mathematicians are discussed in
chronological order and are each linked to a recommended academic web page that
offers additional biographical information.
1. Archimedes (287-212 B. C.)
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Academic Profession: Mathematician
and Physicist Nationality:
Greek
Place of Birth: Ancient
Syracuse, Sicily
Most important Extant Writing:
The Method
Recommended Web Page:
University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
2. Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
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Academic Profession: Mathematician
and Physicist
Nationality: English
Place of Birth: Woolsthorpe,
Lincolnshire, England
Most important Writing: Philosophiae
Naturalis Principia Mathematica
(1687)
Recommended Web Page:
University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
3. Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
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Academic Profession: Mathematician
Nationality:
Swiss
Place of Birth: Basel,
Switzerland
Most important Writing: Methodus
Inveniendi Lineas Curvas (1740)
Recommended Web Page:
University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
4. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
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Academic Profession: Mathematician
Nationality:
German
Place of Birth: Brunswick,
Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany)
Most important Writing: Disquisitiones
Arithmeticae (1801)
Recommended Web Page:
University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
5. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)
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Academic Profession: Mathematician
Nationality:
German
Place of Birth:
Breselenz, Hanover (now Germany)
Most important Writing: Theory
of Abelian Functions (1857)
Recommended Web Page:
University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
6. Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
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Academic Profession: Mathematician
Nationality:
French
Place of Birth:
Nancy, Lorraine, France
Most important Writing: Analysis
Situs (1895)
Recommended Web Page:
University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
7. John von Neumann (1903-1957)
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Academic Profession: Mathematician
Nationality:
Hungarian
Place of Birth: Budapest,
Hungary
Most important Writing:
Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour
(1944)
Recommended Web Page:
University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
8. Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
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Academic Profession: Mathematician
Nationality:
Austrian
Place of Birth:
Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now in Czech
Republic)
Most important Writing: Über
Formal Unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und Verwandter
Systeme (1931)
Recommended Web Page:
University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
9. Alan Mathison Turing
(1913-1954)
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Academic Profession: Mathematician
Nationality:
English
Place of Birth:
London, England
Most important Writing:
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to
the Entscheidungsproblem
(1936)
Recommended Web Page:
University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
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