1. Isaac Newton
  2. Carl F. Gauss
  3. Leonhard Euler
  4. Archimedes
  5. Bernhard Riemann

 

  1. Euclid
  2. Henri Poincaré
  3. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  4. David Hilbert
  5. Gottfried W. Leibniz

 

  1. Alexander Grothendieck
  2. Pierre de Fermat
  3. Niels Abel
  4. Évariste Galois
  5. John von Neumann

  1. Karl W. T. Weierstrass
  2. René Déscartes
  3. Augustin Cauchy
  4. Carl G. J. Jacobi
  5. Brahmagupta

 

  1. Peter G. L. Dirichlet
  2. Hermann K. H. Weyl
  3. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  4. Georg Cantor
  5. Arthur Cayley

 

  1. Eudoxus of Cnidus
  2. Emma Noether
  3. Leonardo `Fibonacci'
  4. Muhammed al-Khowârizmi
  5. Pythagoras of Samos

At some point a longer list will become a List of Great Mathematicians rather than a List of Greatest Mathematicians. I've expanded the List to an even Hundred, but you may prefer to reduce it to a Top Seventy, Top Sixty, Top Fifty, Top Forty or Top Thirty list, or even Top Twenty, Top Fifteen or Top Ten List.

  1. Kurt Gödel
  2. Apollonius of Perga
  3. Aryabhatta
  4. Blaise Pascal
  5. Pierre-Simon Laplace

 

  1. William R. Hamilton
  2. Charles Hermite
  3. Richard Dedekind
  4. Diophantus of Alexandria
  5. Felix Christian Klein

 

  1. Bháscara Áchárya
  2. George Boole
  3. François Viète
  4. Stefan Banach
  5. Ferdinand Eisenstein

  1. Jean le Rond d'Alembert
  2. Gaspard Monge
  3. Jacques Hadamard
  4. Johannes Kepler
  5. Joseph Fourier

 

  1. Élie Cartan
  2. Liu Hui
  3. Jacob Bernoulli
  4. Jean-Victor Poncelet
  5. Hipparchus of Nicaea

 

  1. André Weil
  2. Christiaan Huygens
  3. F.E.J. Émile Borel
  4. Andrey N. Kolmogorov
  5. Archytas of Tarentum

  1. John Wallis
  2. Godfrey H. Hardy
  3. Alhazen ibn al-Haytham
  4. Julius Plücker
  5. Siméon-Denis Poisson

 

  1. L.E.J. Brouwer
  2. Michael F. Atiyah
  3. Pappus of Alexandria
  4. Girolamo Cardano
  5. M. E. Camille Jordan

 

  1. Henri Léon Lebesgue
  2. John E. Littlewood
  3. Carl Ludwig Siegel
  4. Joseph Liouville
  5. Jakob Steiner

  1. Hermann G. Grassmann
  2. Jean-Pierre Serre
  3. Adrien M. Legendre
  4. James J. Sylvester
  5. Pafnuti Chebyshev

 

  1. Giuseppe Peano
  2. Johann Bernoulli
  3. Atle Selberg
  4. Omar al-Khayyám
  5. Shiing-Shen Chern

 

  1. Francesco B. Cavalieri
  2. Hermann Minkowski
  3. Hippocrates of Chios
  4. Johann H. Lambert
  5. Thabit ibn Qurra

  1. Marius Sophus Lie
  2. Panini (of Shalatula)
  3. Alan M. Turing
  4. Thales of Miletus
  5. Paul Erdös

 

  1. Ernst E. Kummer
  2. Nicolai Lobachevsky
  3. Daniel Bernoulli
  4. Alexis C. Clairaut
  5. Jean Gaston Darboux

 

 


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