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Born May 3, 1860 • Ancona • Italy
Died October 11, 1940 (aged 80) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study calculus • integral equation
Cédric Villani
French mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wallis
English mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel
Norwegian mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Seki Takakazu
Japanese mathematician
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard.
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard
French mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
British mathematician
Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
George Green
British mathematician
Gilbert Ames Bliss
American mathematician
Ivar Fredholm
Swedish mathematician

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Equations written on blackboard
Numbers and Mathematics