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Also Known As Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona
Born December 7, 1830 • Pavia • Italy
Died June 10, 1903 (aged 72) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study graphical statics • transformation
Giovanni Ceva
Italian mathematician and engineer
Cavalieri, Bonaventura
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italian mathematician
Boscovich, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in Dubrovnik Cloister, Croatia
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Italian astronomer and mathematician
Tommaso Ceva
Italian mathematician and poet
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician
Pappus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab astronomer and mathematician
Isaac Barrow, pencil drawing by David Loggan, 1676; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Isaac Barrow
English mathematician
Heron of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
James Gregory.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Girard Desargues
French mathematician
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician

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