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Born December 19, 1783 • Sèvres • France
Died April 29, 1864 (aged 80) • Versailles • France
Subjects Of Study Brianchon’s theorem • conic section
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Girard Desargues
French mathematician
Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Conon of Samos
Greek mathematician
Menaechmus
Greek mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
pope
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official
Nicholas Oresme
French bishop, scholar, and economist
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician

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