Who is the greatest mathematician in the world top 20?
The top 20 greatest mathematicians include Newton, Gauss, Euler, Archimedes, Euclid, Riemann, Poincaré, Hilbert, Leibniz, Laplace, Ramanujan, Turing, Descartes, Fermat, Cantor, Galois, Cauchy, Weierstrass, von Neumann, and Pythagoras.
Top 20 Greatest Mathematicians (Historical Significance):
Ancient Era:
1. Euclid - Geometry foundations
2. Archimedes - Ancient genius
3. Pythagoras - Theorem and philosophy
Renaissance to Enlightenment:
4.Isaac Newton - Calculus, physics
5.Gottfried Leibniz - Calculus, logic
6.Leonhard Euler - Analysis, topology
7.Carl Friedrich Gauss - Number theory
8.Pierre-Simon Laplace - Probability
9.René Descartes - Analytic geometry
10. Pierre de Fermat - Number theory
19th Century:
11.Bernhard Riemann - Complex analysis
12. Henri Poincaré - Topology
13.David Hilbert - Foundations
14.Augustin-Louis Cauchy - Analysis
15.Karl Weierstrass - Real analysis
16.Georg Cantor - Set theory
17.Évariste Galois - Group theory
20th Century:
18.Srinivasa Ramanujan - Number theory
19.Alan Turing - Computer science
20.John von Neumann - Multiple fields