Time Lines of Mathematicians

Click below to see time lines of mathematicians between the dates stated. They show how the lives of the mathematicians overlap.

800 BC - 700 AD	(The Greek period)
600 - 1500	(The Arabic period)
1450 - 1700	(The 16th and 17th Centuries)
1650 - 1800	(The 18th Century)
1750 - 1850	(The early 19th Century)
1825 - 1900	(The late 19th Century)
1875 - 1960	(The 20th Century)

The pictures occupy rather a large area so you will have to use your browser to scroll both vertically and horizontally. It may take your browser a little while to format them.

Note: Where either the birth or death of a mathematician is unknown (mostly for those in the era BC) the life-span is given as 60 years for the purpose of these diagrams.

You may wish to see a list of mathematicians alive at a particular date.

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JOC/EFR May 2017 The URL of this page is:	School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Timelines/index.html