The most famous result attributed to Pythagoras ... John Napier (1550-1617) While many of the mathematicians on this list made contributions to a huge number of different fields of math, John ...

According to Live Science, the significance of this discovery lies in its connection to the famous list of unsolved mathematical problems proposed by legendary mathematician David Hilbert in 1900.

For more than 350 years, a mathematics problem whose solution was considered the Holy Grail to the greatest mathematician minds had remained unsolved. Now, a team of mathematicians led by a ...