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Born December 7, 1823 • Legnica • Poland
Died December 29, 1891 (aged 68) • Berlin • Germany
Subjects Of Study algebraic equation • algebraic number • elliptic function

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Gottlob Frege
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Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Carl Jacobi
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Nicholas Of Cusa
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Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
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Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
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Wolff, Christian, freiherr von
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Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein
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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
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Giordano Bruno
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
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Roger Bacon
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