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Born June 24, 1880 • Iowa
Died August 10, 1960 (aged 80) • Maine
Notable Works “Analysis Situs” • “The Foundations of Differential Geometry”
Subjects Of Study Riemannian geometry • differential geometry • quantum field theory • spinor • topology
August Ferdinand Möbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer
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Henry Whitehead
British mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
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Stephen Smale
American mathematician
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Saunders Mac Lane
American mathematician
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William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
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James W. Alexander II
American mathematician
Chern, Shiing-shen
Shiing-shen Chern
American mathematician
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Shing-Tung Yau
Chinese-born mathematician
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Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
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Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
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Girard Desargues
French mathematician
Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich
Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov
Soviet mathematician
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Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Dutch 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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Michel Chasles
French mathematician

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