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Define It: Math Terms
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Gladys West
American mathematician
Mary Cartwright, 1947
Mary Cartwright
British mathematician
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher

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