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Also Known As Joseph-Louis-François Bertrand
Born March 11, 1822 • Paris • France
Died April 5, 1900 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study curve • differential equation • probability • surface • thermodynamics
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Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official
Joseph Liouville
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Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Gilles Personne de Roberval
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Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician
James Gregory.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
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Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
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Oswald Veblen
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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
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Varadhan, S.R. Srinivasa
S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
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John Vincent Atanasoff
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Cardano, Girolamo
Girolamo Cardano
Italian physician and mathematician
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
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Chern, Shiing-shen
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