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Born May 3, 1860 • Ancona • Italy
Died October 11, 1940 (aged 80) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study calculus • integral equation
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Cédric Villani
French mathematician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French 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
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
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Gilbert Ames Bliss
American mathematician
John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wallis
English mathematician
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel
Norwegian mathematician
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
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Seki Takakazu
Japanese mathematician
Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard.
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard
French mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
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Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
British mathematician
Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
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George Green
British mathematician
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Ivar Fredholm
Swedish mathematician

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