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Born December 22, 1765 • Stuttgart • Germany
Died April 21, 1825 (aged 59)
Subjects Of Study integration • partial differential equation
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Carl Jacobi
German mathematician
Peter Lax, 2005.
Peter Lax
Hungarian-American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Sofya Kovalevskaya, c. 1875–80.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
Russian mathematician
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician
Terence Tao
Australian mathematician
Pierre-Louis Lions
French mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Edward Thomas Copson
British mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician

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