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Born June 24, 1880 • Iowa
Died August 10, 1960 (aged 80) • Maine
Notable Works “Analysis Situs” • “The Foundations of Differential Geometry”
Subjects Of Study Riemannian geometry • differential geometry • quantum field theory • spinor • topology
August Ferdinand Möbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer
Henry Whitehead
British mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Saunders Mac Lane
American mathematician
William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
James W. Alexander II
American mathematician
Chern, Shiing-shen
Shiing-shen Chern
American mathematician
Shing-Tung Yau
Chinese-born mathematician
Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Girard Desargues
French mathematician
Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich
Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov
Soviet mathematician
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Dutch mathematician
Steiner surface. It was during a trip to Rome in 1844 that Jakob Steiner first discovered the fourth-degree surface that today bears his name; for this reason it is sometimes referred to as the Roman surface. Each of its tangent planes has the characteristic property that it intersects the surface in a pair of conics. The Steiner surface also contains three double lines that meet one another in a triple point. Steiner never published these and other findings concerning the surface. A colleague, Karl Weierstrass, first published a paper on the surface and Steiner's results in 1863, the year of Steiner's death.
Jakob Steiner
Swiss mathematician
Michel Chasles
French mathematician

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