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Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (1845-1918) was a German mathematician who created set theory.
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Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014) was a French mathematician (born in Germany) and Fields medal winner. He made important contributions in topology, algebra and logic.
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The study of connections between field theory and group theory through the idea of Galois groups and further concepts.
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Euclid of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and the "father of geometry".
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John von Neumann (1903-1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.
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Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988) was an American theoretical physicist known for his work on the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics …
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For questions about the origin and development of the number zero, formally the additive identity in mathematics.
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For questions on the development of science in Nazi Germany and the influence of Nazi Germany on science.
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Science from the so-called Islamic Golden Age, roughly the 8th through the 12th century, and including scholars such as Al-Kwarizmi, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazan), and Jābir ibn Hayyān.
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and ha…
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Ptolemy was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who flourished in Alexandria during the 2nd century CE.
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In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation.
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Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.
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Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical …
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Évariste Galois (1811-1832) was a French mathematician who produced a method of determining when a general polynomial equation could be solved by radicals and is famous for his development of early gr…
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