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Also Known As John Henry Constantine Whitehead
Born November 11, 1904 • Madras Presidency • India
Died May 8, 1960 (aged 55)
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Oswald Veblen
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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
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Simon Donaldson
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
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Joseph Liouville
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Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich
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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
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Stephen Smale
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Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Dutch mathematician
August Ferdinand Möbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer
Sierpiński gasketPolish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński described the fractal that bears his name in 1915, although the design as an art motif dates at least to 13th-century Italy. Begin with a solid equilateral triangle, and remove the triangle formed by connecting the midpoints of each side. The midpoints of the sides of the resulting three internal triangles are connected to form three new triangles that are then removed to form nine smaller internal triangles. The process of cutting away triangular pieces continues indefinitely, producing a region with a Hausdorf dimension of a bit more than 1.5 (indicating that it is more than a one-dimensional figure but less than a two-dimensional figure).
Wacław Sierpiński
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Alexandre Grothendieck
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Sergei Novikov
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Saunders Mac Lane
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William Paul Thurston
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Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
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René Frédéric Thom
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Enrico Betti
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Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
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Pontryagin, Lev Semyonovich
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