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Also Known As Giovanni Benedetto Ceva
Born September 1, 1647 • Milan
Died May 13, 1734 (aged 86) • Mantua
Notable Family Members brother Tommaso Ceva
Subjects Of Study geometry • mechanics

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Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
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Cavalieri, Bonaventura
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Italian mathematician
Luigi Cremona
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Boscovich, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in Dubrovnik Cloister, Croatia
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
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Torricelli, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist
Evangelista Torricelli
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Tommaso Ceva
Italian mathematician and poet
Blaise Pascal
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Archimedes
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
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Euclid
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
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Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
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Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
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Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
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