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Also Known As Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Born December 10, 1804 • Potsdam • Germany
Died February 18, 1851 (aged 46) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “De Formatione et Proprietatibus Determinantium” • “Vorlesungenüber Dynamik”
Subjects Of Study dynamics • elliptic function • partial differential equation
Terence Tao
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Kronecker, 1865
Leopold Kronecker
German mathematician
Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein
German mathematician
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
German mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel
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Peter Lax, 2005.
Peter Lax
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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
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Sofya Kovalevskaya, c. 1875–80.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
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James H. Wilkinson
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Hermite
Charles Hermite
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Pierre-Louis Lions
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Jean Bourgain
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Charles Fefferman
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Edward Thomas Copson
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