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Born May 1, 1825 • Lausanne • Switzerland
Died March 12, 1898 (aged 72) • Basel • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study Balmer series • formula
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
Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
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Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Steiner surface. It was during a trip to Rome in 1844 that Jakob Steiner first discovered the fourth-degree surface that today bears his name; for this reason it is sometimes referred to as the Roman surface. Each of its tangent planes has the characteristic property that it intersects the surface in a pair of conics. The Steiner surface also contains three double lines that meet one another in a triple point. Steiner never published these and other findings concerning the surface. A colleague, Karl Weierstrass, first published a paper on the surface and Steiner's results in 1863, the year of Steiner's death.
Jakob Steiner
Swiss mathematician
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Paul Isaak Bernays
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Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
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Joost Bürgi
Swiss mathematician
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Florian Cajori
American mathematician
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Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
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Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Engraved portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz with long curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat and cravat, facing forward.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
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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