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Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church
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Causes of the Great Depression
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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

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Born May 6, 1906 • Paris • France
Died August 6, 1998 (aged 92) • Princeton • New Jersey
Notable Works “Foundations of Algebraic Geometry”
John Tate
American 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
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Sophie Germain
French mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Charles-Émile Picard.
Charles-Émile Picard
French mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Jean Dieudonné
French mathematician
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician

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