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Facts

Born 1734
Died August 15, 1798 (aged 64)
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1784)
Subjects Of Study Waring’s problem • equation
Charles-François Sturm, pencil sketch by Daniel Colladon, 1822; in the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
Charles-François Sturm
French-Swiss mathematician
Thomas Harriot
English mathematician and astronomer
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Barlow, Peter
Peter Barlow
English optician and mathematician
Sir Horace Lamb.
Sir Horace Lamb
English mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel
Norwegian mathematician
Zhu Shijie
Chinese mathematician
Hauptman, Herbert A.
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician and crystallographer
Jerome Karle, 1985.
Jerome Karle
American crystallographer
Li Rui
Chinese mathematician and astronomer
François Viète
French mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician

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