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Born 1785 • Colmar • France
Died 1870 (aged 85) • Paris • France
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Jacques Charles
French physicist
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
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Heron of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
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British mathematician and chemist
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Joseph Slepian
American electrical engineer and mathematician
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John Hadley
British mathematician
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George Robert Stibitz
American mathematician and inventor
Zhang Heng: seismoscope
Zhang Heng
Chinese mathematician, astronomer, and geographer
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
pope
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Portrait of Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace wearing formal attire with a sash and star-shaped medal, looking slightly to his left.
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official
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Nicholas Oresme
French bishop, scholar, and economist

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