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Born January 22, 1874 • Iowa
Died January 17, 1954 (aged 79) • Harlingen • Texas
Subjects Of Study group theory • number theory
John Tate
American mathematician
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Eric Temple Bell
American mathematician
Alonzo Church
American mathematician
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician

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