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D'Alembert, Jean Le Rond (1717-17830

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of those delicate spirits who are detractors of mathematics for saying this .... The imagination in a mathematician who creates makes no less difference than in a poet who invents.... Of all the great men of antiquity, Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer.

Discours Preliminaire de L'Encyclopedie, Tome 1, 1967. pp 47 - 48.

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Neugebauer, Otto (1899 - 1990)

 

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Pompeiu, Dimitrie (1873 - 1954)

 

Poncelet, Jean Victor (1788 - 1867)*

 

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Radó, Tibor (1895 - 1965)

 

Rajagopal, Cadambathur (1903 - 1978)

 

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Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920)

 

Regiomontanus, Johannes (1436 - 1476)*

 

Renyi, Alfred (1921 - 1970)

 

Riccati, Vincenzo (1707 - 1775)

 

Ricci-Curbastro, G. (1853 - 1925)

 

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Riesz, Frigyes (1880 - 1956)

 

Robinson, Julia (1919 - 1985)

 

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Schering, Ernst Christian Julius (1824 - 1889)*

 

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Schläfli,  Ludwig    (1814 - 1895 )

 

Schottky, Friedrich Hermann (1851 - 1935)

 

Schouten, Jan Arnoldus (1883 - 1971)

 

Schröder, Ernst (1841 - 1902)

 

Schwartz, Laurent (1915 - 2002)

 

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Seidenberg, Abraham (1916 - 1988)

 

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Shnirelmann, Lev G. (1905 - 1938)

 

Sierpinski, Waclaw (1882 - 1969)

 

Simpson, Thomas    (1710 - 1761)

 

Skolem, Thoralf A. (1887 - 1963)

 

Slaught, Herbert (1861 - 1937)

 

Smale, Stephen (1930 - )

 

Smullyan, Raymond (1919 - )

 

Snell, Willebrord  (1580 - 1626)

 

Somerville, Mary (1780 - 1872)

 

Sommerfeld, Arnold  (1868 - 1951)

 

Steiner, Jacob (1796 - 1863)

 

Steinitz, Ernst (1871 - 1928)

 

Stevin, Simon (1548 - 1620)

 

Stewart, Ian (1945 - )

 

Stieltjes, Thomas (1856 - 1894)

 

Stokes, George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)*

 

Story, William  (1850 - 1930)

 

Stott, Alicia Boole  (1860 - 1940)

 

Sturm, Leonhard Christoph (1669 - 1719)*

 

Sylow, Peter Ludvig (1832 - 1918)

 

Sylvester, James Joseph (1814 - 1897)*

 

Tait, Peter  (1831 - 1901)

 

Takagi, Teyi (1875 - 1960)

 

Taniyama, Yukata (1927 - 1958)

 

Tarski, Alfred (1902 - 1983)

 

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Taussky-Todd, Olga (1906 - 1995)

 

Taylor, Brooke (1685 - 1731)

 

Thom, René (1923 - 2002)

 

Thabit ibn Qurra  (836 - 901)

 

Tietze, Heinrich Franz (1880 - 1964)

 

Titchmarsh, Edward  (1899 - 1963)

 

Toeplitz, Otto (1881 - 1940)

 

Torricelli, Evangelista (1608 - 1647)

 

Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried von  (1651 - 1708)

 

Turing, Alan (1912 - 1954)

 

Ulam, Stanislav (1909 - 1984)

 

Vacca, Giovanni E (1872 - 1953)

 

Van Ceulen, Ludolph (1540 - 1610)

 

Van Schooten, Frans  (1615 - 1660)

 

Van Vleck, Edward (1863 - 1943)

 

Varignon, Pierre (1654 - 1722)*

 

Veblen, Thorsten (1857 - 1929)

 

Venn, John (1834 - 1923)

 

Verhulst, Pierre François (1804 - 1849)

 

Viète, François (1540 - 1603)*

 

Vinogradov, Ivan M. (1891 - 1983)

 

Vitali, Giuseppe (1875 - 1932)

 

Voigt, Woldemar (1850 - 1919)

 

Volterra, Vito (1860 - 1940)

 

Von Koch, Helge (1870 - 1924)

 

Von Kues, Nikolaus (1401 - 1464)

 

Von Lindemann, Carl Louis (1852 - 1939)

 

Von Neumann, John (1903 - 1957)

 

Wald, Abraham (1902 - 1950)

 

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Weierstrass, Karl (1815 - 1897)*

 

Weyl, Hermann (1885 - 1955)*

 

Wheeler, Anna  (1883 - 1966)

 

Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 - 1947)

 

Whitehead, Henry (1904 - 1960)

 

Wiener, Norbert (1896 - 1964)

 

Wiles, Andrew (1953 - )

 

Wren, Christopher (1632 - 1723)

 

Wronski, Josef-Maria de (1778 - 1853)

 

Wythoff, Willem Abraham     (1865 - 1939 )

 

Yang Hui (1238 - 1298)

 

Yau, Shung-Tung (1949 - )

 

Young, Lai-Sang (1952 - )

 

Young, Grace Chisholm (1868 - 1944)

 

Young, William Henry (1863 - 1942)

 

Zeckendorf, Edouard   (1901 - 1983 )

 

Zeno, of Elea(490BC - 425BC)

 

Zermelo, Ernst (1871 - 1953)

 

Zeuthen, Hieronymus (1839 - 1920)

 

Zorn, Max (1906 - 1993)

 

Zygmund, Antoni  (1900 - 1992)

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