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Born March 26, 1913 • Budapest • Hungary
Died September 20, 1996 (aged 83) • Warsaw • Poland
Subjects Of Study prime • graph theory

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Pierre de Fermat
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Greek mathematician and astronomer
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Marin Mersenne
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Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
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Enrico Bombieri
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Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
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Atle Selberg
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann
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Endre Szemerédi
Endre Szemerédi
Hungarian American mathematician
Luca Pacioli
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
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Euclid
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Georg Cantor
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How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
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Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
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