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Also Known As Marie-Ennemond-Camille Jordan
Born January 5, 1838 • Lyon • France
Died January 20, 1922 (aged 84) • Milan • Italy
Subjects Of Study Jordan curve theorem • permutation group
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
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Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician
Charles-Émile Picard.
Charles-Émile Picard
French mathematician
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Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Charles-François Sturm
Charles-François Sturm
French-Swiss mathematician
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits
Belgian mathematician
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Édouard-Jean-Baptiste Goursat
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
Sophus Lie
Norwegian mathematician
Karl Weierstrass
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician

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