13 lives in this collection worked in differential equations, from 1655 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: mathematical physics, celestial mechanics, complex analysis, differential geometry, probability theory, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, analysis, calculus, calculus of variations. All fields
Basel mathematician who helped develop Leibniz's calculus, introduced the Bernoulli numbers and proved the first law of large numbers in Ars Conjectandi.
probability theory, calculus, infinite series
Basel mathematician who developed and taught Leibniz's calculus, posed the brachistochrone problem and taught Leonhard Euler.
calculus, differential equations, calculus of variations
Leading French Newtonian who derived the figure of the Earth from hydrostatics, resolved the motion of the lunar apogee and predicted the 1759 return of Halley's comet.
geodesy, celestial mechanics, differential geometry
Founder of rigorous analysis and complex function theory, and creator of the stress tensor and the theory of linear elasticity.
analysis, complex analysis, differential equations
French analyst who founded the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, published Galois's work, constructed the first transcendental numbers and gave his name to theorems on eigenvalue problems, phase-space volume, elementary integrals and conformal maps.
analysis, differential equations, mathematical physics
Self-taught English mathematician who created the algebra of logic now called Boolean algebra and pioneered operator methods in analysis.
mathematical logic, algebra of logic, probability theory
French geometer whose work on surfaces, orthogonal systems, integration and Pfaffian forms shaped classical differential geometry, and who led the Paris Faculty of Science and the Academy of Sciences.
differential geometry, real analysis, differential equations
Founder of the theory of continuous transformation groups, now Lie groups and Lie algebras, developed to integrate differential equations by their symmetries.
transformation groups, differential equations, geometry
Berlin algebraist who created the character theory of finite groups and left his name on results across linear algebra, differential equations and number theory.
group theory, representation theory, linear algebra
Universal mathematician who created automorphic functions, the qualitative theory of dynamical systems and algebraic topology, discovered chaos in the three-body problem, and formulated the Lorentz group of relativity.
complex analysis, differential equations, celestial mechanics
French analyst known for the Picard theorems on entire functions, Picard iteration, Picard–Vessiot theory and the Picard group, and permanent secretary of the Académie des Sciences from 1917 to 1941.
complex analysis, differential equations, algebraic geometry
Founder of the modern theory of stability of motion, author of Lyapunov functions and exponents, and prover of the central limit theorem by characteristic functions.
stability theory, differential equations, probability theory
Engineer turned mathematician who brought topology into algebraic geometry, proved the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, and founded an American school of nonlinear differential equations.
algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, differential equations