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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
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Also Known As Jules Henri Poincaré
Born April 29, 1854 • Nancy • France
Died July 17, 1912 (aged 58) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Analysis Situs”
Subjects Of Study n-body problem • relativity

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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
William Clifford, portrait replica by John Collier; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Kingdon Clifford
British mathematician and philosopher
Kronecker, 1865
Leopold Kronecker
German mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
French philosopher
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician

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