The French philosopher and scholar, Rene Descartes, was

well-known for his method of expressing geometric

shapes in the form of algebraic equation. It was because
of Rene Descartes that we got introduced to the beautiful
branch of co-ordinate geometry. The Cartesian
coordinates, in fact, refer to his name. Besides this, Rene
has contributed significantly in the field of optics and
energy conservation
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Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest

contributors in the field of maths and physics.
His works are spread in almost every field. He
developed Calculus, both differential and
integral, that are still the most important aspects
of higher mathematics. Using Calculus, he made
it easier to find the area bounded by closed
curves. In physics, his most world-changing
work was the discovery of existence of
gravitational force in our surrounding.

Euler, a Swiss physicist and an expert in maths,

is widely acclaimed for his works in the field of
function notation. His mathematical genius has
been proved in the fields of infinitesimal
calculus and graph theory. His mathematical
works and research in optics, mechanics, and
fluid dynamics have been hailed to be very
influential.

The scientific world was amused by the

Einstein's theory of relativity. Although Albert
Einstein was physicist, his applied mathematical
theorems to reach to apt conclusions. Known as
"father of Physics", he can be best described as
a mathematical physicist. He also won the
and the discovery of law of photoelectric effect.

The greatest scholar of the ancient era,

Archimedes made phenomenal contribution in
the field of mathematics. His works include
finding various computation techniques to
determine volume and area of several shapes,
including the conic section

Greek Mathematician Pythagoras is considered by some

to be one of the first great mathematicians. Living around
570 to 495 BC, in modern day Greece, he is known to
have founded the Pythagorean cult, who were noted by
Aristotle to be one of the first groups to actively study and
advance mathematics. He is also commonly credited with
the Pythagorean Theorem within trigonometry. However,
some sources doubt that is was him who constructed the
proof (Some attribute it to his students, or Baudhayana,
who lived some 300 years earlier in India).

Andrew Wiles

The only currently living mathematician on

this list, Andrew Wiles is most well known for
his proof of Fermats Last Theorem: That no
positive integers, a, b and c can satisfy the
equation a^n+b^n=c^n For n greater then 2.
(If n=2 it is the Pythagoras Formula). Although
the contributions to math are not, perhaps, as
grand as other on this list, he did invent
large portions of new mathematics for his
proof of the theorem.

Isaac Newton and Wilhelm Leibniz

I have placed these two together as

they are both often given the honor of
being the inventor of modern
infinitesimal calculus, and as such
have both made monolithic
contributions to the field. To start,
Leibniz is often given the credit for
introducing modern standard notation,
notably the integral sign.

Leonardo Pisano Blgollo

Blgollo, also known as Leonardo

Fibonacci, is perhaps one of the
middle ages greatest mathematicians.
Living from 1170 to 1250, he is best
known for introducing the infamous
Fibonacci Series to the western world.
Although known to Indian
mathematicians since approximately
200 BC, it was, nonetheless, a truly

insightful sequence, appearing in

biological systems frequently

Alan Turing

Computer Scientist and Cryptanalyst Alan

Turing is regarded my many, if not most,
to be one of the greatest minds of the
20th Century. Having worked in the
Government Code and Cypher School in
Britain during the second world war, he
made significant discoveries and created
ground breaking methods of code
breaking that would eventually aid in
cracking the German Enigma Encryptions.