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Born May 21, 1792 • Paris • France
Died September 19, 1843 (aged 51) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Du calcul de l’effet des machines”
Subjects Of Study Coriolis force

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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Diagram comparing rocket trajectories on a nonrotating Earth versus a rotating Earth, illustrating the Coriolis force. The top panels show a straight path from the North Pole to the equator on a nonrotating Earth, while the bottom panels show the rocket's path curving west of the target due to Earth's rotation, with labeled continents, launch site, target, and actual destination.
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
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Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer
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Gaspard de Prony
French mathematician and engineer
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Portrait of Archimedes by Giuseppe Nogari shows an elderly man with white hair and beard, holding a compass, gazing downward, set against a dark background.
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and inventor
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
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Heron of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
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Giovanni Ceva
Italian mathematician and engineer
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian physicist and mathematician
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Zu Chongzhi
Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and engineer
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ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī
Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and engineer
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
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
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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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