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Born February 21, 1591 • Lyon • France
Died October 1661 (aged 70) • France
Subjects Of Study Desargues’s theorem • conic section
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Michel Chasles
French mathematician
Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Menaechmus
Greek mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Mikhail Gromov
Mikhail Gromov
Soviet-born French mathematician
Jean-Victor Poncelet, detail of a lithograph by Patout, 1849.
Jean-Victor Poncelet
French mathematician
Darboux
Jean-Gaston Darboux
French mathematician
Charles-Julien Brianchon
French mathematician
Gilles Personne de Roberval
French mathematician
Euclid
Euclid
Greek 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
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Pappus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab astronomer and mathematician
Isaac Barrow, pencil drawing by David Loggan, 1676; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Isaac Barrow
English mathematician

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