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Born May 12, 1857
Died July 5, 1942 (aged 85) • Freiburg im Breisgau • Germany
Subjects Of Study calculus of variations • elliptic integral
Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
Courant, Richard
Richard Courant
American mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
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Gilbert Ames Bliss
American mathematician
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John Landen
English mathematician
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
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
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
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
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Regiomontanus
German mathematician
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German mathematician
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician

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