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Also Known As Christian Felix Klein
Born April 25, 1849 • Düsseldorf • Germany
Died June 22, 1925 (aged 76) • Göttingen • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1912)
Robert Eitner
German musicologist
Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke
German mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Michel Chasles
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Georg Frobenius
German mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Karl Weierstrass, engraving after a photograph by Franz Kullrich.
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician

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