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Born c.355 • Alexandria • Egypt
Died March 415 • Alexandria • Egypt
Movement / Style Neoplatonism

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Hypatia of Alexandria: murder
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Persian scholar
Zeno of Elea
Greek philosopher and mathematician
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Archytas of Tarentum
Greek mathematician
Mme du Châtelet, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist; in a private collection
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
French scientist and philosopher
William Clifford, portrait replica by John Collier; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Kingdon Clifford
British mathematician and philosopher

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