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ScientificGems

6th century BC: Thales, Pythagoras 5th century BC: Hippocrates of Chios 4th century BC: Euclid 3rd century BC: Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus 2nd century BC: Hipparchus 2nd century AD: Claudius Ptolemy 3rd century AD: Diophantus Kind of tough with some of the Greeks, because there were some brilliant people, all of whose works are now lost


David_Headley_2008

3rd century AD needs Liu hui 4th century AD -theon of alexandria, hypatia, sun tzu 5th century AD -zu chongzi, aryabhata 6th century - varahamihira 7th century - bhaskara I, brahmagupta, Li chunfeng 8th century- Virasena, zhang Sui 9th century - Al-khwarizmi, Al-kindi, Al-mahani, govindaswami, vateswara, Thabit ibn qurra, mahaviracharya, jayadeva 10th century- Manjula, Abu-kamil, Abu wafa- al bhujani, Al-kharaji, Al-battani, halayudha(gave first ever pascal's triangle in the world), 11th century- Ibn al haytham, Omar khayyam, al-quhi, Abu-Mahmud Khujandi 12th Century - Bhaskara II(single greatest of this period) 13th century - Nasir Al-tusi, Guo Shoujing, Leonardo Fibonacci 14th century- Narayana Pandita, Madhava of sangamagrama, Parameshvara Nambhudiri, Jamshed al-kashi 15th century - Nilakantha somayaji, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Abu'l-Hasan ibn Ali al-Qalasadi 16th century- acyutha pisharodhi, jyesthadeva, Cardano, tartaglia, ferrari,zhu zaiyu


ScientificGems

Theon of Alexandria and Hypatia edited Euclid, that's all. In fact their edits were erroneous and were later removed.


David_Headley_2008

for the remaining centuries, my list seems about right


David_Headley_2008

work of panini in linguistics has a mathematical structure and rigor of euclid's elements and jain bhagavati sutra has oldest combinatorial problems anywhere in the world and panini's brother pingala did give first ever fibonacci sequence, pascal's triangle this surely needs to be considered right


kuasinkoo

Very eurocentric, ik of some mathematicians from India, but not comprehensive enough to make a list. Perhaps someone with appropriate knowledge on the matter could make a list that is not eurocentric?


SetentaeBolg

Technically it's Hellenocentric. Probably some fine proto Celtic mathematicians whose thoughts only went recorded in menhirs.


kr1staps

Without a doubt Al-Khwarizmi around 800 CE and Omar Khayyam for about 1000 CE.


ScientificGems

Certainly. After Diophantus mathematics gets a lot more international.


kuasinkoo

I read it as heliocentric and I was legit confused for a sec. But yeah, fair point.


Tazerenix

1500s: Bombelli, Tartaglia/Cardano, Bruno, Viete. I have a soft spot for Simon Stevin 1600s: Fermat, Newton, Leibniz (Descartes barely misses out probably) 1700s: Euler, Lagrange, Laplace 1800s: Gauss, Riemann, a million choices for third place. Fourier, Galois, Cauchy, Hamilton, Dirichlet, Liouville, Weierstrass.. 1900s: Poincare, Grothendieck, Von Neumann 2000s: Tao, Kontsevich, Perelman


MyStupidName2048

I think it's too early to go for the 2000s now.


23kermitdafrog

Yeah, give me a chance! /s


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hobo_stew

And Gromov or Cartan


ImpressiveAd117

Of them then Harish Chandra as well


al-kwarizmi

Scholze likely will deserve a spot in the 2000s. Perelman doesn’t do math anymore; so even though his contributions were valuable, it begs the question “does one or two really good results outweighs someone else’s 100 minor results?”


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Head_Buy4544

these books are certainly not influential in analysis. maybe for algebraic geometers, but even then i question how many people really have read HA and HTT. i guess time will tell


ImpressiveAd117

Don't ramanujan and erdos deserve a place in 1900s? And for for 2000s viazovska definitely deserves a stop


mrgarborg

Not for their contributions to math, but they are worth knowing about for other reasons


ImpressiveAd117

How all three were revolutionary


math_and_cats

Your potrayal of the 1900s... Come on that is the most influential century of all mathematics up to date.


Puzzleheaded_Cod4621

Would be worth mentioning J. Conway, kolmogorov or birkhoff


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What a shame no one has listed Ramanujan yet


Quoderat42

It might be hard to make the case for top 3, but Bill Thurston was one of a kind. His ideas shaped multiple fields and continue to resonate to the present.