Mathematician timeline

1. Mathematician Timeline

2. Thales of Miletus (c. 630-c 550)
• Miletus was an ancient Greek city
• Was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
• Regard him as the first philosopher in
the Greek tradition
• Attempted to explain natural
phenomena without reference to
mythology ; earthquake because earth
float on water, earthquake when the
wave hit
• Provide an explanation of substance,
change, the existence of the world w/o
reference to mythology
• Father of Science
• Used geometry to find the height of
pyramids and the distance of ships
from the shore.
• First mathematician
• Thales theorem
• ”Space is the greatest thing, as it
contains all things”

3. Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 490)
• Pythagoras the
Samian
• Travel around seeking
knowledge, visiting
Egypt
• His ideas influence on
Plato
• Pythagoras himself
wrote nothing, so our
knowledge of
Pythagoras' views is
entirely derived from
the reports of others.

4. Hippocrates of Chios (fl. c. 440)

5. Plato (427-347)

6. Aristotle (384-322)

7. 320 BC
Euclid

8. Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212)

9. Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195)

10. Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 250?)

11. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

12. Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)

13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

14. Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

15. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

16. Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813)

17. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
(1826-1866)

18. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

19. Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan (1887-
1920)

20. Bibliography