Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Mathematicians, including Charles Babbage, Leonhard Euler, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Daniel Bernoulli.
Leonhard Euler15 April 1707, Swiss, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Charles Babbage26 December 1791, British
Father of the computer
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749, French
Scientist
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768, French
Mathematician & Physicist
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
Daniel Bernoulli08 February 1700, Swiss
Mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789, French
Mathematician
Sophie Germain01 April 1776, French
Mathematician
Georg Ohm16 March 1789, German
Physicist & Mathematician
Marquis de Condorcet17 September 1743, French
Mathematician, Philosopher
Anders Celsius27 November 1701, Swedish
Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon07 September 1707, French
Naturalist
Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752, French
Mathematician
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
Astronomer and Mathematician
Maria Gaetana Agnesi16 May 1718, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, Theologian
Johann Heinrich Lambert26 August 1728, Swiss, German, French
Mathematician, Physicist and Astronomer
Joseph Louis Lagrange25 January 1736, French, Italian
Mathematician and Astronomer
William Hopkins02 February 1793, British
Mathematician, Geologist
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician
Andre Marie Ampere20 January 1775, French
Physicist and Mathematician
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert16 November 1717, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher And Musical
Mary Somerville26 December 1780, British, Scottish
Mathematician, Linguist, Translator, Astronomer,
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
Émilie du ChâteletFrench
Thomas Bayes1702 AD, British
Mathematician, Statistician
John Herschel07 March 1792, British
Polymath
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781, French
Mathematician
François Arago26 February 1786, Spanish, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Abraham de Moivre26 May 1667, French
Mathematician, Statistician
David Rittenhouse08 April 1732, American
Astronomer
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William Whewell24 May 1794, British
Economist, Physicist, Historian, Philosopher,
William Playfair22 September 1759, British
Economist, Mathematician, Engineer, Statistician
Jacques Charles12 November 1746, French
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, Balloonist,
Brook Taylor18 August 1685, British
Mathematician
Colin Maclaurin01 February 1698, British, Scottish
Edinburgh
David Brewster11 December 1781, British, Scottish
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753, French
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Richard Price23 February 1723, British, Welsh
Philosopher
Bernard Bolzano05 October 1781, Czech
Mathematician
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746, French
Mathematician, Politician, Physicist, University
Friedrich Bessel22 July 1784, German
Astronomer
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773, American
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Jean Sylvain Bailly15 September 1736, French
Astronomer
Thomas Chalmers17 March 1780, British
Mathematician, Theologian, Writer, University
Jean-Baptiste Biot21 April 1774, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Civil
Alexis Clairaut13 May 1713, French
Mathematician
Pierre Louis Maupertuis28 September 1698, French
Mathematician
John Arbuthnot29 April 1667, British
Physician
Dugald Stewart22 November 1753, British, Scottish
Philosopher
Seki Takakazu1642 AD, Japanese
Mathematician
Giuseppe Piazzi16 July 1746, Italian
Astronomer, University teacher, Mathematician
Gabriel Cramer31 July 1704, Swiss
Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille22 April 1797, French
Physician, Physicist, Mathematician
Charles Marie de La Condamine28 January 1701, French
Explorer
Étienne-Louis Malus23 July 1775, French
Physicist
John Playfair10 March 1748, British
Mathematician
Michel RolleFrench
Pierre BouguerFrench
Jakob Steiner18 March 1796, Swiss
Mathematician
Edward Waring1736 AD, British
Mathematician
Pieter van Musschenbroek14 March 1692, Dutch
Scientist
William George Horner09 June 1786, British
Mathematician
Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde28 February 1735, French
Mathematician
Paolo Ruffini22 September 1765, Italian
Italian mathematician
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope03 August 1753, British
Statesman
Carsten Niebuhr17 March 1733, German
Mathematician
Jean-Robert ArgandFrench
John Machin1686 AD, British
Mathematician
Jesse Ramsden06 October 1735, British
Mathematician
Jean-Charles de BordaFrench
Joseph Nicollet24 July 1786, French
Geographer
Diego de Torres Villarroel17 June 1693, Spanish
Writer
Jean Baptiste Joseph DelambreFrench
John Hadley16 April 1682, British
Mathematician
John Keill01 December 1671, British, Scottish
Mathematician
Joseph SauveurFrench
Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet10 April 1766, Scottish
Mathematician
Benjamin Robins1707 AD, British
Engineer and mathematician
William Jones28 September 1746, British
Philologist
Gaspard de PronyFrench
Giovanni Ceva07 December 1647, Italian
Mathematician
Johann Andreas Segner09 October 1704, Hungarian
Scientist
Jakob Bernoulli01 January 1655, Swiss
Mathematician
George Green14 July 1793, British
Mathematician
Thomas Brattle20 June 1658, American
Merchant
Theophan Prokopovich18 June 1681, Ukrainian, Russian
Theologian
Johannes Hudde23 April 1628, Dutch
Mathematician
Peter Andreas Hansen08 December 1795, German, Danish
Astronomer
Eaton Hodgkinson26 February 1789, British
Engineer
Robert Simson14 October 1687, Scottish
Mathematician1768
Peter Barlow13 October 1776, British
Mathematician
Karl Georg Christian von Staudt24 January 1798, German
Mathematician
Nathaniel Bliss28 November 1700, British
Astronomer