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Answer by Timothy Chow for Mathematicians with both “very abstract” and “very applied” achievements

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I am slightly surprised that Henri Poincaré is not already on this list. Perhaps it is because almost all of his work could be considered applied mathematics. But his contributions to the foundations of algebraic topology were extremely important, and seem "pure" to me.


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