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Born October 17, 1888 • London • England
Died September 18, 1977 (aged 88) • Zürich • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study David Hilbert • foundations of mathematics • axiomatic set theory • proof theory
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Johann Jakob Balmer
Swiss mathematician
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Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
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Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
Peano, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Peano
Italian mathematician
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Alfred Tarski
American mathematician and logician
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
George Boole
George Boole
British mathematician
De Morgan, Augustus
Augustus De Morgan
English mathematician and logician
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Haskell Brooks Curry
American mathematician
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
Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
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Joost Bürgi
Swiss mathematician
Cajori
Florian Cajori
American mathematician
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Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician

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