9 lives in this collection worked in combinatorics, from 190 BC to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: number theory, algebraic geometry, group theory, probability theory, projective geometry. All fields
Greek astronomer of the second century BC who built the first known chord table, fitted geometric models of the Sun and Moon to observations, bounded the Moon's distance, compiled a star catalogue and discovered the precession of the equinoxes.
astronomy, trigonometry, geography
Mathematician, physicist and writer who proved the hexagram theorem, built the Pascaline, established atmospheric pressure, co-founded probability theory with Fermat, and wrote the Provincial Letters and Pensées.
projective geometry, probability theory, combinatorics
Co-inventor of the calculus and author of its notation, discoverer of vis viva, advocate of binary arithmetic and of a relational theory of space and time.
calculus, combinatorics, logic
Self-taught Swiss geometer who became the leading synthetic geometer of the nineteenth century, known for the projective generation of conics, symmetrization, Steiner chains and Steiner systems.
synthetic geometry, projective geometry, geometric extremal problems
Prolific Victorian algebraist who founded matrix algebra, gave the first abstract definition of a group, and built classical invariant theory.
algebra, invariant theory, group theory
Berlin algebraist who founded much of the representation theory of finite groups and of GL(n), and whose name is attached to results across algebra, combinatorics and analysis.
representation theory, group theory, linear algebra
Author of Moderne Algebra, which gave abstract algebra its modern form, and of foundational work in algebraic geometry, Ramsey theory and the history of ancient science.
abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, combinatorics
Itinerant Hungarian mathematician, author of some 1,500 papers with over 500 co-authors, who founded the probabilistic method and the theory of random graphs.
number theory, combinatorics, graph theory
Proved superrigidity and arithmeticity of higher-rank lattices, built the first explicit expanders, and solved the Oppenheim conjecture by founding homogeneous dynamics.
lie groups, ergodic theory, homogeneous dynamics