Mathematicians

Greatest Mathematicians of All Time
(This is the long page. Click here for just the List, with links to the biographies.)
 
 

Isaac Newton	Carl Gauss	Archimedes	Leonhard Euler	Euclid	Bernhard Riemann
Henri Poincaré	David Hilbert	Alex. Grothendieck	G.W. Leibniz	J.-L. Lagrange	Pierre de Fermat

 

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The Greatest Mathematicians of All Time
ranked in approximate order of "greatness."
To qualify, the mathematician's work must have breadth, depth, and historical importance.
 
 

Isaac Newton Carl F. Gauss Archimedes Leonhard Euler Euclid		Bernhard Riemann Henri Poincaré David Hilbert Alexander Grothendieck Gottfried W. Leibniz		Joseph-Louis Lagrange Pierre de Fermat Niels Abel Évariste Galois John von Neumann
Srinivasa Ramanujan Karl W. T. Weierstrass Brahmagupta René Déscartes Augustin Cauchy		Hermann K. H. Weyl Leonardo `Fibonacci' Carl G. J. Jacobi Peter G. L. Dirichlet Georg Cantor		Arthur Cayley Emma Noether Pythagoras of Samos Muhammed al-Khowârizmi Kurt Gödel
At some point a longer list will become a List of Great Mathematicians rather than a List of Greatest Mathematicians. I've expanded the List to Seventy-five, but you may prefer to leave it at Forty or Thirty or even prune it back to just a Top Twenty or Top Fifteen or Top Ten List.
Eudoxus of Cnidus Bháscara Áchárya Blaise Pascal Apollonius of Perga Pierre-Simon Laplace		William R. Hamilton Richard Dedekind Charles Hermite André Weil Stefan Banach		Felix Christian Klein Diophantus of Alexandria George Boole Ferdinand Eisenstein François Viète
Girolamo Cardano Christiaan Huygens Pappus of Alexandria Andrey N. Kolmogorov Alhazen ibn al-Haytham		Jean le Rond d'Alembert Gaspard Monge Johannes Kepler Jacques Hadamard Hipparchus of Nicaea		Jean-Victor Poncelet Simeon-Denis Poisson Jacob Bernoulli Albert Einstein John Wallis
Liu Hui Aryabhatta Godfrey H. Hardy Joseph Liouville L.E.J. Brouwer		Adrien M. Legendre Joseph Fourier John E. Littlewood James J. Sylvester Johann Bernoulli		Jakob Steiner F.E.J. Émile Borel Archytas of Tarentum Omar al-Khayyám Henri Léon Lebesgue
I probably should have stopped the List at 60 or 70 names, but it's fun to keep expanding. If I were to grow the list even further here are some of the prime candidates:
M. E. Camille Jordan Takakazu Seki Julius Plücker Francesco B. Cavalieri Alexis C. Clairaut		Pafnuti Chebyshev Aristotle John Napier of Merchiston Simon Stevin Thales of Miletus		Hermann G. Grassmann Johann H. Lambert Emil Artin Hermann Minkowski Paul Erdös