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Key People

Euclid

Euclid

Greek mathematician

Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, 1966.

Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov

Russian mathematician

David Hilbert

David Hilbert

German mathematician

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Hippocrates of Chios

Greek mathematician