Sir Isaac Newton <small>&lt;nowiki>[&lt;/nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki&gt;]</nowiki></small&gt; was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. His treatise "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", published in 1687, described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics, …

Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l'Empire (January 25, 1736 - April 10, 1813; b. Turin, baptised in the name of "Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia") was an Italian mathematician and astronomer who made important contributions to all fields of analysis and number theory and to classical and celestial mechanics as arguably the greatest mathematician of the 18th century. It is said that he was able to write out his papers complete without a single correction required.

Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and extending the work of his predecessors in his five volume "Mécanique Céleste" (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825). This masterpiece translated the geometrical study of classical mechanics used by Isaac Newton to one based on calculus, known as physical mechanics. He also formulated the Laplace's equation.

Jerrold Eldon Marsden (August 17, 1942 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada), is a well-known mathematician. He gained his B.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1968. Thereafter, he has worked at various universities and research institutes in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble is a senior research investigator at The Blackett Laboratory, at Imperial College London, UK. His research interests are in quantum field theory, especially the interface between high-energy particle physics and cosmology. He has worked on mechanisms of symmetry breaking, phase transitions and the topological defects (monopoles, cosmic strings or domain walls) that can be formed.

Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (Russian: Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, born June 12, 1937 in Odessa, USSR) is one of the world's most prolific mathematicians. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he has made important contributions in a number of areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory, topology, algebraic geometry, …

Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis. Most of his work was brought to perfection by others: his work on roots of polynomials inspired Galois theory; Abel's work on elliptic functions was built on Legendre's; some of Gauss' work in statistics and number theory completed that of Legendre.

Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (April 25, 1903 - October 20, 1987) was a Soviet mathematician who made major advances in different academic fields (among them probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics and computational complexity). Kolmogorov is widely considered one of the prominent mathematicians of the 20^th century.

Jakob Hermann (16 July 1678 - 11 July 1733) was a mathematician who worked on problems in classical mechanics. He appears to have been the first to show that the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector is a constant of motion for particles acted upon by an inverse-square central force. Hermann received his initial training from Jacob Bernoulli and graduated with a degree in 1695. He became a member of the Berlin Academy in 1701.

Professor Dr. Turgay Uzer is a Turkish-American theoretical physicist. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1979 Currently Regents' Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are atomic and molecular physics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos. He contributed in those fields significantly. Specially his research on interplay between quantum dynamics and classical mechanics, …

Roger Joseph (Ruggero Giuseppe) Boscovich (May 18, 1711 - February 13, 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, and Jesuit from Ragusa (then an independent state, today Dubrovnik in Croatia) who later lived in England, France and Italy. He is famous for his atomic theory, given as a clear, precisely-formulated system utilizing principles of Newtonian mechanics.

Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (May 14, 1832 - October 7, 1903) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Bonn from 1864. Peter Gustav Dirichlet was his teacher. He supervised the early work of Felix Klein. While Lipschitz gave his name to the Lipschitz continuity condition, he worked in a broad range of areas. These included number theory, algebras with involution, mathematical analysis, differential geometry and classical mechanics.

Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (September 24 1801 - January 1 1862) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. Ostrogradsky is considered to be Leonhard Euler's disciple and the leading Russian mathematician of that day. Ostrogradsky was born in Pashennaya (Пашенная), Imperial Russia (now Ukraine). From 1816 to 1820 he studied under Timofei Fedorovich Osipovsky (1765-1832) and graduated from the University of Kharkov.

Esteban Terradas i Illa (born Barcelona, 15 September 1883; died Madrid, 9 May 1950) was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences, working not only in his native Catalonia, but also in the rest of Spain and in South America. He was also active as a consultant in the Spanish telephone and railway industries. He held two doctorates (in mathematics and physics) on 1904, …

Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician, of German extraction, was born in Geneva. Originally tutor to the son of Madame de Staël, he resolved, with his school-fellow Colladon, to try his fortune in Paris, and obtained employment on the "Bulletin universel". In 1829 he discovered the theorem, regarding the determination of the number of real roots of a numerical equation included between given limits, which bears his name, …

Charles Étienne Louis Camus, French mathematician and mechanician, was born at Crecy-en-Brie, near Meaux. He studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy, and became associate of the Académie des Sciences, professor of geometry, secretary to the Academy of Architecture and fellow of the Royal Society of London.