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Also Known As Paul-Pierre Lévy
Born September 15, 1886 • Paris • France
Died December 15, 1971 (aged 85)
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, 1966.
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician
Varadhan, S.R. Srinivasa
S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Indian mathematician
Andrey Andreyevich Markov
Russian mathematician
Richard von Mises
American mathematician
Blackwell, David
David Blackwell
American statistician and mathematician
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
Quetelet, Adolphe
Adolphe Quetelet
Belgian astronomer, sociologist, and statistician
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Irish economist
Thomas Bayes
English theologian and mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
pope
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official

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