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Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
Sophus Lie
Norwegian mathematician
Felix Klein
German mathematician
Georg Frobenius
German mathematician
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits
Belgian mathematician
Camille Jordan
French mathematician
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Efim Zelmanov
Russian mathematician
Leonard Eugene Dickson
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