18th Century from 1700 to 1799

18th Century (from 1700 to 1799)

Year	Who?	What?	Mathematics Category
1700	Daniel Bernoulli
1700	Nathaniel Bliss
1700	William Braikenridge
1700	Edmund Stone
1701	Charles Marie de La Condamine
1701	William Emerson
1702	Thomas Bayes
1703	Antoine Deparcieux
1704	Gabriel Cramer
1704	Alexis Fontaine des Bertins
1704	Johann Andreas von Segner
1706	Benjamin Franklin
1706	Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Marquise du Châtelet
1707	Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon
1707	Leonhard Euler
1707	Vincenzo Riccati
1707	Benjamin Robins
1708	Johann Francesco Melchiore Salvemini Castillon
1710	Johann(II) Bernoulli)-bernoulli/
1710	Thomas Fuller
1710	Thomas Simpson
1711	Laura Maria Catarina Bassi
1711	Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
1712	Johann Samuel König
1713	Alexis Claude Clairaut
1714	César-François Cassini de Thury
1714	Alexander Wilson
1715	Giovanni Francesco Fagnano dei Toschi
1717	Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
1717	Matthew Stewart
1718	Maria Gaëtana Agnesi
1718	István Hatvani
1719	Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
1719	John Landen
1723	Nicole-Reine Etable de Labrière Lepaute
1723	Tobias Mayer
1723	Richard Price
1724	Franz Maria Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus
1725	Patrick d’Arcy
1725	Jean Étienne Montucla
1726	James Hutton
1728	Paolo Frisi
1728	Johann Heinrich Lambert
1729	Louis Antoine de Bougainville
1730	Étienne Bézout
1730	Charles Bossut
1731	Benjamin Banneker
1731	Gian Francesco Malfatti
1731	Francis Maseres
1732	Chokuyen Naonobu Ajima
1732	Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande
1732	Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten
1732	Nevil Maskelyne
1732	David Rittenhouse
1733	Jean Charles de Borda
1734	Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour
1735	Antonio Maria Lorgna
1735	Jesse Ramsden
1735	Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde
1736	Erland Samuel Bring
1736	Charles Augustin de Coulomb
1736	Joseph-Louis Lagrange
1736	Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
1736	Edward Waring
1737	Charles Hutton
1737	Nicolas Vilant
1739	Georg Simon Klügel
1740	Anders Johan Lexell
1741	Carl Friedrich Hindenburg
1741	John Wilson
1743	Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat
1744	Johann(III) Bernoulli)-bernoulli/
1744	José Anastácio da Cunha
1744	Pierre François-André Méchain
1745	George Atwood
1745	Caspar Wessel
1746	Gaspard Monge
1746	William Trail
1747	Aida Yasuaki
1748	Jean-Dominique Comte de Cassini
1748	D’Amondans Charles de Tinseau
1748	John Playfair
1749	Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
1749	John Hellins
1749	Pierre-Simon Laplace
1750	James Glenie
1750	Caroline Lucretia Herschel
1750	Simon Antoine Jean Lhuilier
1750	Lorenzo Mascheroni
1750	William Morgan
1751	John Bonnycastle
1752	Adrien-Marie Legendre	Legendre symbol	number theory
1753	Lazare Nicolas Marguérite Carnot
1753	Nicola Fergola
1753	Dugald Stewart
1753	Edward Troughton
1754	Nicolas-François Canard
1754	Georg Freiherr von Vega
1755	Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony
1755	Nicolaus Fuss
1755	Marc-Antoine Parseval
1756	John West
1759	Louis François Antoine Arbogast
1759	Jacob(II) (Jacques(II)) Bernoulli)-(jacques(ii))-bernoulli/
1759	Pietro Paoli
1760	Christian Kramp
1761	Ferdinand François Désiré Budan de Boislaurent
1764	Ruan Yuan
1765	Pierre Simon Girard
1765	Sylvestre François Lacroix
1765	Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky
1765	Johann Friedrich Pfaff
1765	Paolo Ruffini
1766	John Mortimer Brinkley
1766	John Farey
1766	John Leslie
1767	Alexis Bouvard
1768	Jean Robert Argand
1768	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
1768	François Joseph Français
1768	Marie-Jeanne Amélie Harlay
1768	Li Rui
1768	François Joseph Servois
1768	William Wallace
1769	Johann Christian Martin Bartels
1769	Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette
1769	Louis Puissant
1771	Joseph Diaz Gergonne
1771	Antoine-André-Louis Reynaud
1772	Robert Haldane
1772	Bartholomew Lloyd
1773	Nathaniel Bowditch
1773	Johann Karl Burckhardt
1773	Louis Benjamin Francoeur
1773	Robert Woodhouse
1773	Thomas Young
1774	Jean Baptiste Biot
1774	Olinthus Gilbert Gregory
1774	Karl Brandan Mollweide
1775	Robert Adrain
1775	André Marie Ampère
1775	Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai
1775	Jacques Frédéric Français
1775	Étienne Louis Malus
1776	Peter Barlow
1776	Marie-Sophie Germain
1777	Barnabé Brisson
1777	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
1777	Daniel Friedrich Hecht
1777	Louis Poinsot
1777	William Spence
1778	Josef-Maria Hoëné de Wronski
1779	Benjamin Gompertz
1780	August Leopold Crelle
1780	Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville
1781	Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano
1781	Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
1781	Siméon Denis Poisson
1783	Charles Julien Brianchon
1783	Claude Louis Mathieu
1784	Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
1784	Pierre Charles François Dupin
1785	Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier
1786	Dominique François Jean Arago
1786	Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
1786	William George Horner
1786	Jean-Nicolas Nicollet
1786	James Thomson
1786	John Walsh
1787	Louis Lefébure de Fourcy
1788	Enno Heeren Dirksen
1788	Augustin Jean Fresnel
1788	William Stirling Hamilton
1788	Jean Victor Poncelet
1789	Antonio Maria Bordoni
1789	Augustin Louis Cauchy
1789	Georg Simon Ohm
1790	Jean-Baptiste Charles Joseph Bélanger
1790	August Ferdinand Möbius
1790	Theodore Strong
1790	Charles Hughes Terrot
1791	Charles Babbage
1791	Michael Faraday
1791	C V Mourey
1791	George Peacock
1791	Aléxis Thérèse Petit
1791	Félix Savart
1792	Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis
1792	John Frederick William Herschel
1792	Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
1792	Martin Ohm
1793	Michel Chasles
1793	George Green
1793	William Hopkins
1793	Jakob Philipp Kulik
1793	Théodore Olivier
1794	Germinal Pierre Dandelin
1794	Franz Adolph Taurinus
1794	William Whewell
1795	Thomas Carlyle
1795	Bernt Michael Holmboe
1795	Gabriel Lamé
1795	Émile Léger
1795	Arthur Jules Morin
1795	Louis Paul Emile Richard
1795	Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues
1795	Charles Matthew Whish
1796	Irenée-Jules Bienaymé
1796	Nikolai Dmetrievich Brashman
1796	Sadi Nicolas Léonard Carnot
1796	Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet
1796	Jakob Steiner
1797	Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant
1797	Jean Marie Constant Duhamel
1797	Pierre-Joseph-Étienne Finck
1797	Felix Savary
1798	Étienne E Bobillier
1798	Christoph Gudermann
1798	Franz Ernst Neumann
1798	Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk
1798	Karl Georg Christian von Staudt
1799	Benoit Paul Émile Clapeyron
1799	Karl Heinrich Gräffe

1.10 November 1763: Posthumous discovery of Bayes Theorem

Edit or Add Notation Axiomatic Method

18th Century (from 1700 to 1799)

1.10 November 1763: Posthumous discovery of Bayes Theorem

This work was contributed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by:

This work is a derivative of:

Bibliography (further reading)