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Mathematicians: Historical Comparisons

Explore 7 head-to-head comparisons between mathematicians, matched by era and by how close together they lived.

Painted portrait representing the mathematician EuclidPainted portrait of Archimedes

Euclid vs Archimedes

fl. c. 300 BCE · c. 287–212 BCE

Photograph of Emmy NoetherPhotograph of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Emmy Noether vs Srinivasa Ramanujan

1882–1935 · 1887–1920

Photograph of Srinivasa RamanujanPortrait photograph of Alan Turing

Srinivasa Ramanujan vs Alan Turing

1887–1920 · 1912–1954

Painted portrait of Carl Friedrich GaussDaguerreotype portrait of Ada Lovelace

Carl Friedrich Gauss vs Ada Lovelace

1777–1855 · 1815–1852

Daguerreotype portrait of Ada LovelacePhotograph of physicist James Clerk Maxwell

Ada Lovelace vs James Clerk Maxwell

1815–1852 · 1831–1879

Photograph of physicist James Clerk MaxwellPortrait of Georg Cantor

James Clerk Maxwell vs Georg Cantor

1831–1879 · 1845–1918

Painted portrait of René DescartesPortrait of Blaise Pascal

René Descartes vs Blaise Pascal

1596–1650 · 1623–1662