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Also Known As Giovanni Benedetto Ceva
Born September 1, 1647 • Milan
Died May 13, 1734 (aged 86) • Mantua
Notable Family Members brother Tommaso Ceva
Subjects Of Study geometry • mechanics

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Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Cavalieri, Bonaventura
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italian mathematician
Luigi Cremona
Italian mathematician
Boscovich, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in Dubrovnik Cloister, Croatia
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Italian astronomer and mathematician
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian physicist and mathematician
Tommaso Ceva
Italian mathematician and poet
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
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Apollonius of Perga
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