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Born March 21, 1884 • Michigan
Died November 12, 1944 (aged 60) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study ergodic theory
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Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
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Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
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
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
Karl Weierstrass
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941
G.H. Hardy
English 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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Edward Charles Titchmarsh
British mathematician
Mittag-Leffler
Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
Swedish mathematician
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Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician

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