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Unusual Counting Systems
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Is Zero an Even or an Odd Number?
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Just How Many Oceans Are There?
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The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
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When Was the Periodic Table Invented?
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci
Camel at Khor Rori, Oman; mammal.
Do Camels Store Water in Their Humps?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around

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Born June 27, 1940 • Orange • New Jersey
Died April 30, 2011 (aged 70) • Gainesville • Florida
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1978)
Subjects Of Study K-theory • topology
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
René Frédéric Thom
French mathematician
Oswald Veblen
American mathematician
Saunders Mac Lane
American mathematician
James W. Alexander II
American mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Paul Joseph Cohen
American mathematician
Shing-Tung Yau
Chinese-born mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Curtis McMullen
American mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich
Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov
Soviet mathematician

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