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Born August 23, 1829 • Mannheim • Germany
Died April 10, 1920 (aged 90) • Heidelberg • Germany
Subjects Of Study mathematics

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Wendelin Werner
French mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and 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
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
Regiomontanus
German mathematician
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German mathematician
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Hermann Oberth
German scientist
Karl Weierstrass, engraving after a photograph by Franz Kullrich.
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
Carl Jacobi
German mathematician
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
August Ferdinand Möbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician

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