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Born June 22, 1864 • Lithuania
Died January 12, 1909 (aged 44) • Göttingen • Germany
Subjects Of Study Minkowski universe • relativity • space-time
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Roger Penrose
British mathematician
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician
Ernst Eduard Kummer
German mathematician
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician

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