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Born September 3, 1814 • London • England
Died March 15, 1897 (aged 82) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1880)
Subjects Of Study invariant
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
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Sir Frederick Pollock, portrait by R.G. Eves; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
British scholar
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Barlow, Peter
Peter Barlow
English optician and mathematician
Diophantus
Greek mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Mittag-Leffler
Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
Swedish mathematician
Frigyes Riesz
Hungarian mathematician
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Felix Klein
German mathematician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Thomas Harriot
English mathematician and astronomer
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician

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