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Born March 21, 1884 • Michigan
Died November 12, 1944 (aged 60) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study ergodic theory
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Karl Weierstrass, engraving after a photograph by Franz Kullrich.
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician
Charles-Émile Picard.
Charles-Émile Picard
French mathematician
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
British mathematician
Mittag-Leffler
Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
Swedish mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician

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