Mathematician Timeline
Here is a highly limited timeline of mathematicians and mathematics.
Where there are links on these mathematicians, the links lead to either a
feature or a brief profile.
- Fifth century B.C.
- Zeno lives.
- 408 B.C.
- Eudoxus born.
- 355 B.C.
- Eudoxus dies.
- 287(?) B.C.
- Archimedes born.
- 212 B.C.
- Archimedes dies at the hands of an impatient Roman soldier.
- 1596
- Descartes born.
- 1601
- Fermat born.
- 1623
- Pascal born.
- 1642
- Newton born.
- 1646
- Leibniz born.
- 1650
- Descartes dies.
- 1662
- Pascal dies.
- 1665
- Fermat dies.
- 1707
- Euler born.
- 1716
- Leibniz dies.
- 1727
- Newton dies.
- 1736
- Lagrange born.
- 1746
- Monge born
- 1749
- Laplace born.
- 1768
- Fourier born.
- 1776
- Sophie Germain born (April 1).
- 1777
- Gauss born.
- 1783
- Euler dies.
- 1788
- Poncelet born.
- 1789
- Cauchy born.
- 1793
- Lobatchewsky born.
- 1802
- Abel born.
- 1804
- Jacobi born.
- 1805
- Hamilton born.
- 1810
- Kummer born.
- 1811
- Galois born.
- 1813
- Lagrange dies.
- 1814
- Sylvester born.
- 1818
- Monge dies.
- 1812
- Cayley born.
- 1815
- Weierstrass born. Boole born.
- 1822
- Kermite born.
- 1823
- Kronecker born.
- 1826
- Riemann born.
- 1827
- Laplace dies.
- 1829
- Abel loses the fight with tuberculosis.
- 1830
- Fourier dies.
- 1831
- Dedekind born. Sophie Germain dies (June 27).
- 1832
- Galois dies in a duel.
- 1845
- Cantor born.
- 1850
- Kowalewski born.
- 1851
- Jacobi dies.
- 1854
- Poincaré born.
- 1855
- Gauss dies.
- 1856
- Lobatchewsky dies.
- 1857
- Cauchy dies.
- 1864
- Boole dies.
- 1865
- Hamilton dies.
- 1866
- Riemann dies.
- 1867
- Poncelet dies.
- 1895
- Cayley dies.
- 1891
- Kowalewski dies. Kronecker dies.
- 1893
- Kummer dies.
- 1897
- Syvester dies. Weierstrass dies.
- 1901
- Hermite dies.
- 1909
- Stan Ulam is born
- 1912
- Poincaré dies.
- 1916
- Dedekind dies.
- 1918
- Cantor dies.
- 1984
- Stan Ulam dies from a stroke (May 13).
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