Archimedes
The ancient Greek mathematician who said "Eureka!"
Famous Mathematicians
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Babbage, Charles
The inventor of the Difference Engine -
Banneker, Benjamin
The African-American scientist who helped survey Washington, D.C. -
Boole, George
Developer of Boolean algebra -
Carroll, Lewis
The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -
Copernicus, Nicolas
Astronomer known for figuring out that the sun is the center of our solar system -
de Branges, Louis
The deep thinker who proved the Bieberbach Conjecture in 1984 -
Descartes, René
The philosopher who said "I think, therefore I am" -
Doppler, Christian
Discoverer of what's called the Doppler Effect -
Emeagwali, Philip
Nigerian-born supercomputing expert -
Euclid
Alexandrian mathematician and father of geometry -
Fibonacci, Leonardo
The guy who brought the Hindu-Arabic number system to Europe -
Galileo
The inventor of the astronomical telescope -
Gödel, Kurt
The Austrian mathematician known for his Incompleteness Theorem -
Kepler, Johannes
The astronomer who explained planetary motion -
Lehrer, Tom
Composer of the satirical tune "The Vatican Rag" -
Leibniz, Gottfried
The mathematician who said God created the best of all possible worlds -
Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph
The mathematician who predicted the existence of Neptune -
Maxwell, James Clerk
The physicist who came up with the theory of electromagnetism -
Nash, John
The mathematician depicted in A Beautiful Mind -
Pascal, Blaise
17th century mathematical genius -
Poincaré, Henri
The French mathematician who wrote Science and Hypothesis -
Pythagoras
The guy they named the Pythagorean Theorem after -
Russell, Bertrand
The deep-thinking co-author of Principia Mathematica -
Turing, Alan
The famous British pioneer of computers and artificial intelligence -
Vinge, Vernor
Hugo-winning author of A Fire Upon the Deep -
Whitehead, Alfred North
Mathematician who turned to metaphysics and religion