MATHEMATICIANS

2. a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.
3. a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry".
7. a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.
8. a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
11. an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.
14. an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism.
16. a classical Greek Athenian philosopher.
18. a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.
19. a German mathematician, who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

1. a German mathematician and philosopher.
4. a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist.
5. an influential German mathematician who made lasting contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry, some of them enabling the later development of general relativity.
6. a Indian mathematician and astronomer who wrote many important works on mathematics and astronomy.
9. an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.
10. born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrancia.
12. a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality.
13. a Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation by radicals.
15. a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
17. one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.