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Born April 13, 1728 • Milan • Italy
Died November 22, 1784 (aged 56) • Milan • Italy
Notable Works “A Treatise on Rivers and Torrents”
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian physicist and mathematician
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Domenico Guglielmini
Italian 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
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
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
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
black and white photograph of Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić-Einstein
Mileva Marić-Einstein
mathematician and physicist
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Portrait of Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace wearing formal attire with a sash and star-shaped medal, looking slightly to his left.
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram
British physicist
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist

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