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Wrote Consolation of Philosophy awaiting execution; medieval Europe's bridge to antiquity.

Moved the Earth from the centre of the universe.

Pointed a telescope upward and broke the authority of the ancients.

Three laws of planetary motion; every satellite orbit obeys them.

Cogito ergo sum and coordinate geometry.

Probability theory, hydrostatics, and a mechanical calculator at nineteen.

Showed that one law governs the apple and the Moon alike.

Calculus notation we still use, and binary arithmetic.

Translated Newton into French and established kinetic energy as mv².

The most prolific mathematician ever; wrote much of modern notation.

The Prince of Mathematicians; number theory, geodesy, magnetism.

Wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine and saw computing beyond numbers.

Four equations that unified electricity, magnetism and light — hence radio and Wi-Fi.

Proved there are different sizes of infinity.

Noether's theorem links symmetry to conservation laws — the backbone of modern physics.

Computer architecture, game theory, quantum foundations.

Incompleteness theorems set permanent limits on formal systems.

Built the first programmable digital computer, the Z3, in 1941.

Defined what a computer is, then was destroyed by the country he saved.

His cube became a global object lesson in group theory.

Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.