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Friday, December 20, 2019

Top 10 most influential mathematicians

 

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons

 

This post is a list of who I believe are the top 10 most influential mathematicians. The photo above is a Babylonian mathematical tablet dated around 1800 BC.

 

  1. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  2. Leonard Euler
  3. Archimedes
  4. Euclid
  5. Bernard Riemann
  6. Henri Poincare
  7. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  8. Srinivasa Ramanjan
  9. David Hilbert
  10. Alexander Grothendieck

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