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Born November 15, 1793 • France
Died December 18, 1880 (aged 87) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1865)
Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Girard Desargues
French mathematician
Felix Klein
German mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
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
Gilles Personne de Roberval
French mathematician
Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Charles-François Sturm, pencil sketch by Daniel Colladon, 1822; in the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
Charles-François Sturm
French-Swiss 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
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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