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Born May 12, 1857
Died July 5, 1942 (aged 85) • Freiburg im Breisgau • Germany
Subjects Of Study calculus of variations • elliptic integral
Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
Courant, Richard
Richard Courant
American mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Gilbert Ames Bliss
American mathematician
John Landen
English mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
Regiomontanus
German mathematician
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German mathematician
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician

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