Who is the greatest mathematician of the 18th century?
Who is the greatest mathematician of the 18th century? 18th Century Mathematicians1 Carl F. Gauss. 586. 2 Charles Babbage. 427. Famous As: Father of the computer. 3 Leonhard Euler. 457. Famous As: Mathematician, Physicist. 4 Pierre-Simon Laplace. 3012. Famous As: Scientist. 5 Joseph Fourier. 306. 6 Joseph Louis Lagrange. 214. 7 Adrien-Marie Legendre. 226. 8 Augustin-Louis Cauchy. 193. What were the most popular branches of mathematics in the 18th century? During the eighteenth century mathematicians and physicists embraced mathematics in general, and the calculus in particular, as an increasing powerful set of analytic techniques useful in the description of the...