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Also Known As Leonardo Pisano • Leonardo of Pisa • Leonardo Fibonacci
Born c.1170 • Pisa? • Italy
Died After 1240
Subjects Of Study Fibonacci number • square number • Hindu-Arabic numerals • number game

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Marble statue of Fibonacci in a hooded robe with one hand extended, set against a brick wall and mural in Camposanto cemetery, Pisa, Italy.
Fibonacci
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Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
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Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
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Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Cardano, Girolamo
Girolamo Cardano
Italian physician 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
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
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Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian 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
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
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Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
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Sophie Germain
French mathematician
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André Weil
French mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
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James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician

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