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Born May 9, 1876 • Chicago • Illinois
Died May 8, 1951 (aged 74) • Illinois
Subjects Of Study algebraic function • ballistics • calculus • calculus of variations
Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
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Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
Courant, Richard
Richard Courant
American mathematician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
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Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
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Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
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John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
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Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
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Jakob Bernoulli
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Sir Horace Lamb
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John von Neumann
American mathematician
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