Mathematicians

The man who bound a right triangle's three sides into a single rule

The first to weave geometry into an unbroken chain of proof

He added up 'infinitely thin slices' two thousand years before calculus

The man who gave the world the word 'algebra'

The man who brought '0 and the Arabic numerals' to Europe

The man who married algebra and geometry on the coordinate plane

The 'prince of amateurs' who left the hardest problem in a margin

The man who invented calculus to compute change in an instant

The man who invented the ∫ and dx symbols we still use

The prolific genius whose name is on nearly every room in mathematics

The 'prince of mathematicians' who summed 1 to 100 as a boy

The man who defined area as 'the sum of thin rectangles'

The man who proved that 'infinity comes in sizes'

The man who posted the to-do list for 20th-century mathematics

The self-taught Indian genius who poured out uncanny formulas

The 'mother of modern algebra' who built abstract algebra's skeleton