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The Greatest Mathematicians of All Timeranked in approximate order of "greatness."To qualify, the mathematicianmust be born before 1930and his work must havebreadth,depth, andhistorical importance.

1. 2. Isaac Newton3. Carl F. Gauss4. Leonhard Euler5. Archimedes6. Bernhard Riemann7. Isaac Newton8. Carl F. Gauss9. Leonhard Euler10. Archimedes11. Bernhard Riemann12. Alexandre Grothendieck13. Pierre de Fermat14. Niels Abel15. variste Galois16. John von Neumann17. Karl W. T. Weierstrass18. Ren Dscartes19. Augustin Cauchy20. Carl G. J. Jacobi21. Srinivasa Ramanujan22. Brahmagupta23. Peter G. L. Dirichlet24. Hermann K. H. Weyl25. Eudoxusof Cnidus26. Georg Cantor27. Muhammed al-Khowrizmi28. Arthur Cayley29. Emma Noether30. Pythagorasof Samos31. Leonardo `Fibonacci'32. Kurt Gdel33. Apolloniusof Perga34. Aryabhatta35. Charles Hermite36. Blaise Pascal37. Pierre-Simon Laplace38. Richard Dedekind39. Diophantusof Alexandria40. Felix Christian Klein41. William R. Hamilton42. Bhscarachrya43. George Boole44. Franois Vite45. Stefan Banach46. Ferdinand Eisenstein47. Jean le Rond d'Alembert48. Jacques Hadamard49. Gaspard Monge50. Johannes Kepler51. Jacob Bernoulli52. lie Cartan53. Joseph Fourier54. Liu Hui55. Jean-Victor Poncelet56. Archytasof Tarentum57. Andr Weil58. Hipparchusof Nicaea59. Godfrey H. Hardy60. Simon-Denis Poisson61. Julius Plcker62. F.E.J. mile Borel63. Andrey N. Kolmogorov64. Christiaan Huygens65. Alhazen ibn al-Haytham66. John Wallis67. L.E.J. Brouwer68. Michael F. Atiyah69. Pappusof Alexandria70. M. E. Camille Jordan71. Henri Lon Lebesgue72. John E. Littlewood73. Carl Ludwig Siegel74. Jakob Steiner75. Joseph Liouville76. Girolamo Cardano77. Hermann G. Grassmann78. Jean-Pierre Serre79. Adrien M. Legendre80. Giuseppe Peano81. James J. Sylvester82. Johann Bernoulli83. Atle Selberg84. Pafnuti Chebyshev85. Shiing-Shen Chern86. Francesco B. Cavalieri87. Omar al-Khayym88. Hermann Minkowski89. Hippocratesof Chios90. Johann H. Lambert91. Thabit ibn Qurra92. Marius Sophus Lie93. Panini(of Shalatula)94. Alan M. Turing95. Thalesof Miletus96. Paul Erds97. Ernst E. Kummer98. Emil Artin99. Nicolai Lobachevsky100. Alexis C. Clairaut101. Jean Gaston Darboux Albert Einstein James C. Maxwell Galileo Galilei Aristotle Abu Rayhan Biruni