3 lives in this collection worked in infinite series, from 1340 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: calculus. All fields
Founder of the Kerala school, credited by his successors with the infinite series for π, the arctangent, the sine and the cosine, with end-correction terms, two and a half centuries before their European rediscovery.
astronomy, mathematics, infinite series
Author of the laws of motion and universal gravitation in the Principia, co-inventor of the calculus, and founder of the modern theory of colours.
mechanics, gravitation, calculus
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