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Riemann, Bernhard (1826-1866)
German mathematician who studied mathematics under Gauss and physics under Wilhelm Weber. Riemann did important work in geometry, complex analysis, and mathematical physics. [eng]
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Biography of Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499-1557)
Italian mathematician, who solved the general cubic equation. [eng]
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Weierstrass, Karl (1815-1897)
German mathematician who is considered the father of modern analysis. [eng]
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Some Contemporaries of Descartes, Fermat, Pascal and Huygens
Online publication
from `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. [eng]
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Cartan, Élie (1869-1951)
He has developed the calculus of exterior differential forms which can be applied to differential geometry. [eng]
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Biography of Georg Frobenius (1849-1917)
German mathematician who did important work in algebra, where he became one of the founders of group theory. [eng]
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Hamilton
Biography of William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), the Irish mathematician. [eng]
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Klein
Biography of Felix Klein (1849-1925), German mathematician . [eng]
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Poncelet, Jean-Victor (1788-1867)
French mathematician who was the founder of projective geometry. [eng]
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Galois
Biography of Evariste Galois (1811-1832). The great French mathematician . [eng]
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Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813)
Joseph Louis Lagrange, the greatest mathematician of the eighteenth century. [eng]
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Thâbit ibn Kurrah (836-901)
Arab mathematician . [eng]
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Carnot, Lazare (1753-1823)
French philosopher and successful military leader. [eng]
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de Donder, Théophile Ernest (1872-1957)
Belgian mathematician and physicist . [eng]
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Dodgson
Biography of Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), the English professor of mathematics who wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, sighned by L. Carroll. [eng]
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Godel
Biography of Kurt Gödel (1906-1978). The Austrian-American mathematician . [eng]
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L'Hospital
Biography of L'Hospital, Guillaume de (1661-1704) . The
French mathematician who published the first book ever on differential calculus. [eng]
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Painlevé, Paul (1863-1933)
French mathematician and politician .
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Bolyai, Janos (1802-1860)
Hungarian mathematician . [eng]
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Klein, Felix (1849-1925)
German mathematician who systemized non-Euclidean geometry . He also is known in topology for the one-sided Klein bottle. [eng]
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