4 lives in this collection worked in graph theory, from 1707 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: number theory, set theory. All fields
The most prolific mathematician in history, who shaped modern analysis and notation, founded graph theory, and wrote the equations of rigid bodies and ideal fluids.
analysis, number theory, graph theory
Edinburgh natural philosopher who co-wrote the Treatise on Natural Philosophy with Kelvin, championed quaternions, and founded knot theory with the first knot tables.
mathematical physics, knot theory, graph theory
Warsaw topologist who axiomatized closure, defined the set-theoretic ordered pair, characterized planar graphs, and led the post-war rebuilding of Polish mathematics.
topology, set theory, graph theory
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