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Born May 9, 1876 • Chicago • Illinois
Died May 8, 1951 (aged 74) • Illinois
Subjects Of Study algebraic function • ballistics • calculus • calculus of variations
Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
Courant, Richard
Richard Courant
American mathematician
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wallis
English mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Sir James Lighthill
British mathematician
Seki Takakazu
Japanese mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
British mathematician
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician
Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Oskar Bolza
German mathematician
Sir Horace Lamb.
Sir Horace Lamb
English mathematician
Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
Italian mathematician
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel
American mathematician

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