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Also Known As Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Born December 10, 1804 • Potsdam • Germany
Died February 18, 1851 (aged 46) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “De Formatione et Proprietatibus Determinantium” • “Vorlesungenüber Dynamik”
Subjects Of Study dynamics • elliptic function • partial differential equation
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Kronecker, 1865
Leopold Kronecker
German mathematician
Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein
German mathematician
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
German mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel
Norwegian mathematician
Peter Lax, 2005.
Peter Lax
Hungarian-American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Sofya Kovalevskaya, c. 1875–80.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
Russian mathematician
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Terence Tao
Australian mathematician
Hermite
Charles Hermite
French mathematician
Pierre-Louis Lions
French mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Edward Thomas Copson
British mathematician

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