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Born January 23, 1719 • England
Died January 15, 1790 (aged 70)
Subjects Of Study Landen’s theorem • elliptic integral
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Oskar Bolza
German mathematician
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wallis
English mathematician
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
John Dee
John Dee
English mathematician
Isaac Barrow, pencil drawing by David Loggan, 1676; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Isaac Barrow
English mathematician
George Boole
George Boole
British mathematician
Henry Briggs
English mathematician
Thomas Harriot
English mathematician and astronomer
William Oughtred, watercolour by George Perfect Harding after an engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Oughtred
English mathematician
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician

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