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Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
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Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
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Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli
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Courant, Richard
Richard Courant
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Gilbert Ames Bliss
American mathematician
Oskar Bolza
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