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Mathematical map

116 mathematicians across the Western, Eastern and Islamic traditions, placed by birth year (horizontal) and influence (vertical), linked by 153 known lines of influence. Companion to the philosophical map.

405060708090100600 BCE400 BCE200 BCE1200400600800100012001400160018002000Birth year →Influence →Thales (624 BCE)ThalesPythagoras (570 BCE)PythagorasEudoxus (408 BCE)EudoxusEuclid (325 BCE)EuclidArchimedes (287 BCE)ArchimedesEratosthenes (276 BCE)EratosthenesApollonius (240 BCE)ApolloniusHipparchus (190 BCE)HipparchusHeron (10 CE)HeronPtolemy (100 CE)PtolemyDiophantus (201 CE)DiophantusLiu Hui (225 CE)Liu HuiPappus (290 CE)PappusHypatia (360 CE)HypatiaZu Chongzhi (429 CE)Zu ChongzhiAryabhata (476 CE)AryabhataBrahmagupta (598 CE)BrahmaguptaAl-Khwarizmi (780 CE)Al-KhwarizmiThabit ibn Qurra (826 CE)Thabit ibn QurraIbn al-Haytham (965 CE)Ibn al-HaythamAl-Biruni (973 CE)Al-BiruniOmar Khayyam (1048 CE)Omar KhayyamBhaskara II (1114 CE)Bhaskara IIFibonacci (1170 CE)FibonacciOresme (1320 CE)OresmeMadhava (1340 CE)MadhavaAl-Kashi (1380 CE)Tartaglia (1499 CE)TartagliaCardano (1501 CE)CardanoViète (1540 CE)Napier (1550 CE)NapierGalileo (1564 CE)GalileoKepler (1571 CE)KeplerDescartes (1596 CE)DescartesCavalieri (1598 CE)CavalieriFermat (1607 CE)FermatWallis (1616 CE)Pascal (1623 CE)PascalHuygens (1629 CE)HuygensSeki Takakazu (1642 CE)Newton (1643 CE)NewtonLeibniz (1646 CE)LeibnizJacob Bernoulli (1655 CE)Johann Bernoulli (1667 CE)De Moivre (1667 CE)De MoivreTaylor (1685 CE)TaylorMaclaurin (1698 CE)Euler (1707 CE)D'Alembert (1717 CE)D'AlembertLagrange (1736 CE)LagrangeMonge (1746 CE)Laplace (1749 CE)Legendre (1752 CE)LegendreFourier (1768 CE)FourierGauss (1777 CE)GaussPoisson (1781 CE)PoissonBolzano (1781 CE)Cauchy (1789 CE)Möbius (1790 CE)MöbiusLobachevsky (1792 CE)LobachevskyAbel (1802 CE)AbelBolyai (1802 CE)BolyaiJacobi (1804 CE)Dirichlet (1805 CE)DirichletHamilton (1805 CE)Galois (1811 CE)GaloisWeierstrass (1815 CE)Boole (1815 CE)BooleChebyshev (1821 CE)ChebyshevCayley (1821 CE)Hermite (1822 CE)Kronecker (1823 CE)Riemann (1826 CE)RiemannDedekind (1831 CE)Cantor (1845 CE)CantorKlein (1849 CE)Kovalevskaya (1850 CE)Poincaré (1854 CE)PoincaréMarkov (1856 CE)Peano (1858 CE)Hilbert (1862 CE)HilbertMinkowski (1864 CE)Hausdorff (1868 CE)HausdorffÉlie Cartan (1869 CE)Borel (1871 CE)BorelLebesgue (1875 CE)LebesgueHardy (1877 CE)Noether (1882 CE)NoetherWeyl (1885 CE)Ramanujan (1887 CE)RamanujanBanach (1892 CE)Wiener (1894 CE)WienerKolmogorov (1903 CE)von Neumann (1903 CE)Gödel (1906 CE)Weil (1906 CE)WeilChern (1911 CE)Turing (1912 CE)TuringErdős (1913 CE)ErdősSchwartz (1915 CE)Shannon (1916 CE)ShannonSelberg (1917 CE)Serre (1926 CE)Grothendieck (1928 CE)Nash (1928 CE)Atiyah (1929 CE)Milnor (1931 CE)Cohen (1934 CE)CohenLanglands (1936 CE)Conway (1937 CE)Thurston (1946 CE)Yau (1949 CE)Wiles (1953 CE)WilesPerelman (1966 CE)Tao (1975 CE)TaoMirzakhani (1977 CE)

Each point is a mathematician (x = birth year, y = approximate influence, a prominence proxy). Hover a name to trace its connections — arrows point from a thinker to those they shaped; red dashed lines mark critical reactions, grey lines positive influence. Click a point for Wikipedia, and use the legend to filter traditions.