Mwanahisabati ni mtaalamu anayetumia ujuzi mpana wa hisabati katika kazi yake, ili kutatua mafumbo ya kihisabati. Archimedes, 287 KK hivi – 212 KK Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, 780 – 850 hivi Omar Khayyam Profile.jpg Omar Khayyám, 1048 – 1131 Leonardo Fibonacci, 1170 - 1240 Gerolamo Cardano 1501 - 1576 René Descartes, 1596 – 1650 Pierre de Fermat, 1601 – 1665 Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, 1646 – 1716 Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783 Maria Gaetana Agnesi, 1718 – 1799 Joseph-Louis Lagrange, 1736 – 1813 Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855 Niels Henrik Abel, 1802 – 1829 Évariste Galois, 1811 – 1832 Bernhard Riemann, 1826 – 1866 Felix Klein, 1849 – 1925 Henri Poincaré, 1854 – 1912 David Hilbert, 1862 – 1943 Emmy Noether, 1882 – 1935 Hermann Weyl, 1885 – 1955 Srinivasa Ramanujan, 1887 – 1920 Wengineo ni: Brahmagupta, Johann Bernoulli, Jacob Bernoulli, Aryabhata, Bhāskara II, Hasan Ibn Haytham, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Alexander Grothendieck, Paul Erdős, Blaise Pascal, John von Neumann, Alan Turing, Tullio Levi-Civita Kurt Gödel, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Georg Cantor, William Rowan Hamilton, Carl Jacobi, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Andrey Kolmogorov, Joseph Fourier, Giuseppe Peano na Pierre-Simon Laplace.