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Born March 24, 1809 • Saint-Omer • France
Died September 8, 1882 (aged 73) • Paris • France
Founder “Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées”
Subjects Of Study Liouville number • Sturm-Liouville problem • doubly periodic function • transcendental number
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Mittag-Leffler
Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
Swedish mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
Frigyes Riesz
Hungarian mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Sophie Germain
French mathematician
André Weil
French mathematician
Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician

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