1564-1642
Galileo Galilei
Italy
Galileo Galilei was mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He used measurement and mathematical models to study motion and used telescopic observations to test astronomical ideas.
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1811-1832
Évariste Galois
France
Évariste Galois was mathematician. He connected polynomial solvability with symmetry groups, founding a central part of abstract algebra.
Documented historical record1777-1855Featured
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German states
A German mathematician whose work transformed number theory, geometry, astronomy, measurement, probability, and many other fields.
Documented historical record1776-1831Featured
Sophie Germain
France
Sophie Germain was mathematician. She contributed to number theory and the mathematical theory of elastic surfaces.
Documented historical record1288-1344
Levi ben Gershon
Provence
Levi ben Gershon was Jewish mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. He worked on combinatorics, harmonic numbers, astronomy, and an instrument for measuring angular separation.
Documented historical record1839-1903
Josiah Willard Gibbs
United States
Josiah Willard Gibbs was mathematical physicist. He founded chemical thermodynamics and helped develop vector analysis and statistical mechanics.
Documented historical record1928-2021
Gloria Ford Gilmer
United States
Gloria Ford Gilmer was mathematician and ethnomathematics researcher. She studied mathematical thinking in everyday cultural practices and worked to broaden participation in mathematics education.
Documented historical record1924-2023
Evelyn Boyd Granville
United States
Evelyn Boyd Granville was mathematician, programmer, and educator. She worked on orbital calculations and computer programming for space projects and later strengthened mathematics education.
Documented historical record1928-2014
Alexander Grothendieck
France
Alexander Grothendieck was mathematician. He rebuilt algebraic geometry using schemes, categories, sheaves, and cohomology.
Documented historical record1562-1633
Xu Guangqi
China
Xu Guangqi was scholar, administrator, and agricultural writer. He collaborated with Matteo Ricci on the first Chinese translation of portions of Euclid’s Elements.
Documented historical record1906-1978
Kurt Gödel
Austria and the United States
Kurt Gödel was logician and mathematician. His incompleteness theorems showed limits on what sufficiently strong formal systems can prove about themselves.
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