# Top 51 Greatest Mathematicians Of All Time

No one bothers to find out about the greatest mathematicians of all time. In fact there could be dozens of great mathematicians alive right now but we still don’t want to know about them. This is Wrong.

When i was a student i always thought what purpose does mathematics serve? Why we have to study all these numbers, algebra, geometry, calculus? Why we have to keep finding ‘X’ again and again. However as i grew up i came to know just how important mathematics is. From just making a pen to the working of satellites, Mathematics plays a crucial role in our day to day lives. Without Mathematics we wouldn’t have been any civilized and advance race as we are today.

Surely we need to thanks all the great scientists and mathematicians who made our life more comfortable and enjoyable as well. Here we have compiled a list of 51 greatest mathematicians of all time. It was due to the contribution of these great personalities that we are able to live a life with so many comforts and luxuries in our hands.

Here are the 52 greatest mathematicians ever:

## Greatest Mathematicians Ever

51. Jean le Rond d’Alembert

50. Hermann Minkowski

49. Apollonius of Perga

48. Plato

47. John Napier

46. Arthur Cayley

45. Alhazen

44. Sofia Kovalevskaya

43. Hypatia

41. Gerolamo Cardano

40. Felix Klein

39. Thales

38. Niels Henrik Abel

37. Augustin-Louis Cauchy

36. Jacob Bernoulli

35. Kurt Godel

33. George Boole

32. Evariste Galois

31. Johann Bernoulli

30. Pierre-Simon Laplace

29. Emmy Noether

28. Joseph-Louis Lagrange

27. Joseph Fourier

26. Henri Poincare

25. Johannes Kepler

24. G. H. Hardy

23. Brahmagupta

22. David Hilbert

20. John von Neumann

19. Georg Cantor

18. Blaise Pascal

17. Pierre de Fermat

16. Andrew Wiles

15. Galileo Galilei

14. Leonardo Fibonacci

Do you know about Fibonacci numbers? If yes then you surely know why Leonardo Pisano Bigollo is on this list.
13. Wilhelm Leibniz

German Mathematicians Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz did groundbreaking work in Calculus and that is why he is regarded as one of the greatest mathematician.
12. Alan Turing

If you have seen The Imitation Game then you can understand why Alan Turing is regarded as father of computer science and mathematics. If you haven’t then well WATCH IT.
11. Albert Einstein

Yes the greatest scientist of all time was a genius in mathematics.
10. Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan work on infinite series and number theory is regarded as one of the most influential work on mathematics in 19th century.
9. Rene Descartes

French Mathematician René Descartes is called as the father of Analytical mathematics and he is the one who invented Cartesian coordinate system.
8. G. F. Bernhard Riemann

German Mathematician Bernhard Riemann gave the Riemann hypothesis in 1859. Even though it is just paper work but still it is considered groundbreaking and if it is ever practically solved then it can change our perception on modern mathematics.
7. Carl Friedrich Gauss

German Mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss has contributed to so many fields in mathematics and has inspired so many mathematicians that he could be given a top spot in this list.
6. Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton is credited as the father of Modern Physics. All thanks to his book on Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.
5. Leonhard Euler

Swiss Mathematician Leonhard Euler is considered as one of the greatest mathematician of 18th century. He gave the famous euler theorem.
4. Archimedes

Archimedes was the one who found the exact value of Pi. He was a greek mathematician.
3. Euclid

Euclid was the first to write text on maths and passing it future generations. He wrote Euclidean Geometry.
2. Pythagoras of Samos

The Pythagoras theorem that you have studied in junior high school was given by Pythagoras of Samos. He is cited as the father of Geometry.
1. Aryabhatta

Indian mathematician Aryabhatta is given credit for introducing the decimal system and giving the number zero. He is called as the father of Algebra.

Who do you think is the greatest mathematicians ever?