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Born March 5, 1574 • Eton • England
Died June 30, 1660 (aged 86) • England
Subjects Of Study mathematics • symbol

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William Oughtred, watercolour by George Perfect Harding after an engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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John Hadley
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British jurist and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Blaise Pascal
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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
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Archimedes
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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
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Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
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Alan Turing
Alan Turing
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Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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Hermann Oberth
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