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Born September 13, 1873 • BerlinGermany
Died February 2, 1950 (aged 76) • MunichGermany
Subjects Of Study calculuscalculus of variations

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Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
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John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
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Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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