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Also Known As Marie-Sophie Germain
Born April 1, 1776 • Paris • France
Died June 27, 1831 (aged 55) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Fermat’s last theorem • elasticity
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British 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
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
André Weil
French mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician

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