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Math
- Ada Lovelace (1852)
- Adrien Legendre (1833)
- Alexander Grothendieck (2014)
- Alfred Tarski (1983) - Introduced a theory of reference that shows how to relate the objects in logic to objects in the real world.
- Alonzo Church (1995)
- Amalie Noether (1935)
- Andrew Granville
- Andrew Wiles
- Andrey Markov (1922)
- Archimedes (212 BC) - Used a lot of advanced methods (something like infinitesimal calculus) which he used to derive the formulas for computing the volume of cones and other solids of revolution, he also used similar methods to investigate the properties of conics.
- Aristotle (322 BC)
- Augustin Louis Cauchy (1857)
- Bernhard Riemann (1866)
- Bertrand Russel (1970)
- Blaise Pascal (1662) - Built a famous calculating machine.
- Carl Gauss (1855) - Invented Normal Distribution.
- Carl Jacobi (1851)
- Charles Babbage (1871)
- Charles Vallee-Pussin (1962)
- Claude Shannon (2001) - Invented Information Theory.
- David Hilbert (1943)
- Diophantus (299) - Was interested in properties of integers.
- Eratosthenes (194 BC) - Known for the Sieve of Eratosthenes, which is a method of finding prime numbers.
- Frank Ramsey (1930)
- Georg Cantor (1918)
- George Boole (1864) - Worked out the details of propositional, or Boolean logic.
- Gerolamo Cardano (1576) - First framed the idea of probability, describing it in terms of the possible outcomes of gambling events.
- Godfrey Hardy (1947)
- Gottfried Leibniz (1716) - Built a mechanical device intended to carry out operations on concepts rather than numbers.
- Grigori Perelman
- Haskell Curry (1982)
- Jacob Bernoulli (1705)
- Jean Serre
- Johann Lambert (1777) - Invented Wave Equation.
- John Conway
- John Littlewood (1977)
- John Napier (1617) - Invented logarithms.
- John Nash (2015)
- Joseph Fourier (1830) - Invented Fourier Transform.
- Joseph Lagrande (1813)
- Karl Weierstass (1897)
- Kurt Godel (1978)
- Madhava of Sangamagrama (1425)
- Niels Abel (1829)
- Norbert Wiener (1964)
- Peter Dirichlet (1859)
- Peter Scholze
- Pierre Fermat (1655)
- Pierre Laplace (1827) - Advanced the theory and introduced new statistical methods.
- Rene Descartes (1650) - Gave the first clear discussion of the distinction between mind and matter and of the problems that arise.
- Shinichi Mochizuki
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1920)
- Stefan Banach (1945)
- Stephen Kleene (1994)
- Stephen Smale
- Terrence Tao
- Thales of Miletus (546 BC)
- Thomas Bayes (1761) - Proposed a rule for updating probabilities in light of new evidence.
- Henri Poincaré (1912)
- Cédric Villani
- Euclid (300 BC) - Mathematical treatment of “preferred outcomes” or utility was first finalised by him, gave the basis for modern proof-based mathematics.
- Gottlob Frege (1925) - Extended Boole’s logic to include objects and relations, creating the first-order logic that is used today.
- Leonhard Euler (1783) - Invented The Square Root of Minus One, Euler’s Formula for Polyhedra.
- Paul Erdős (1996)
- Pythagoras (495 BC) - Invented the famous Pythagoras’s Theorem.
- Évariste Galois (1832)
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Physics
- Enrico Fermi (1954)
- Albert Einstein (1955)
- Anton Zeilinger
- Arnold Sommerfeld (1951)
- Ernest Rutherford (1937)
- Eugene Wigner (1995)
- Galileo Galilei (1642)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1937)
- Heinrich Hertz (1894) - First person to transmit and receive radio waves.
- Isaac Newton (1726) - Invented Calculus and Law of Gravity.
- James Chadwick (1974)
- John Bardeen (1991)
- John Bell (1990)
- John Mauchly (1980)
- Julius Oppenheimer (1967)
- Louis de Broglie (1987)
- Max Born (1970)
- Max Planck (1947)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)
- Niels Bohr (1962)
- Nikola Tesla (1943)
- Paul Dirac (1984)
- Pierre Curie (1906)
- Richard Feynman (1988)
- Robert Hooke (1703)
- Roger Penrose
- Satyendra Bose (1974)
- Stephen Hawking
- Werner Heisenberg (1976)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1958)
- Ludwig Boltzmann (1906) - Invented Schrodinger’s Equation.
- Erwin Schrödinger (1961)
- James Maxwell (1879) - Invented Maxwell’s equations.
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Writing
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1940)
- Oscar Wilde (1900)
- Agatha Christie (1976)
- Aldous Huxley (1963)
- Anais Nin (1977)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1930)
- Dale Carnegie (1955)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1881)
- Hermann Hesse (1962)
- John Milton (1674)
- John Tolkien (1973)
- Jorge Borges (1986)
- Kurt Vonnegut (2007)
- Leo Tolstoy (1910)
- Mark Twain (1910)
- William Shakespeare (1616)
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