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Also Known As Marie-Ennemond-Camille Jordan
Born January 5, 1838 • Lyon • France
Died January 20, 1922 (aged 84) • Milan • Italy
Subjects Of Study Jordan curve theorem • permutation group
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician
Charles-Émile Picard.
Charles-Émile Picard
French mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Charles-François Sturm, pencil sketch by Daniel Colladon, 1822; in the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
Charles-François Sturm
French-Swiss mathematician
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits
Belgian mathematician
Édouard-Jean-Baptiste Goursat
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
Sophus Lie
Norwegian mathematician
Karl Weierstrass, engraving after a photograph by Franz Kullrich.
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician

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