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Atanasoff, John,
285

Atiyah, Michael,
379

Aumann, Robert J.,
263

Babbage, Charles,
283

Bacon, Francis,
96
,
127

Ball, John,
174

Bar-Hillel, Maya,
258

Barrow, Isaac,
110

Bayes, Thomas,
206

Beeckman, Isaac,
98

Bénézet, Louis P.,
394

Berkeley, George (bishop),
206

Bernoulli, Daniel,
119
,
200
,
257

Bernoulli, Jacob,
199
,
368
,
369

Bernoulli, Johann,
367

Berry, Clifford,
285

Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka,
27

Black, Fisher,
243

Blech, Ilan,
362

Blum, Paul,
30

Bohr, Niels,
161

Boltzmann, Ludwig,
134

Bolyai, Johann,
147

Bolzano, Bernhard,
321

Boole, George,
210
,
323

Borda, Jean-Charles, chevalier de,
237
,
238
,
242

Borel, Émile,
244
,
251

Born, Max,
164

Bourbaki, Nicolas,
365

Boyle, Robert,
159

Brahe, Tycho,
104

Brouwer, Luitzen,
334

Brown, Robert,
73
,
157

Cannarsa, Piermarco,
354

Cantor, Georg,
327

Cao, Huai-Dong,
359

Cardano, Gerolamo,
188
,
191
,
317

Cauchy, Augustine-Louis,
320

Cavalleri, Antonine,
119

Cellina, Arrigo,
66

Chebyshev, Pafnuty,
204

Church, Alonso,
289

Church, Russell,
24

Clerk Maxwell, James.
See
Maxwell (Clerk Maxwell), James

Cohen, Paul,
340
,
352

Condorcet, marquis de,
124
,
236

Cooly, James,
280

Copernicus, Nicolaus,
91

Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de,
130

Cournot, Antoine Augustin,
247

D'Alembert, Jean,
125

Dalenius, Tore,
264

Dalton, John,
159

Darboux, Jean Gaston,
331

Darwin, Charles,
16

da Vinci, Leonardo,
32

Debreu, Gérard,
253

de Broglie, Louis-Victor,
162

Dedekind, Richard,
321

Democritus,
72
,
159

de Moivre, Abraham,
201
,
206

De Morgan, Augustus,
316

Descartes, René,
43
,
58
,
93
,
98
,
105
,
110
,
317

de Witt, Johan,
197

Diffie, Whitfield,
303

Diophantus,
316

Dirac, Paul,
162

Einstein, Albert,
73
,
141
,
149
,
156
,
286
,
287
,
337
,
376
,
378

Eisenberg, Yehuda,
169

Ekhad, Shalosh B.,
313

Englert, François,
170

Erastothenes,
85

Erdős, Paul,
350
,
353
,
355

Euclid,
62
,
142

Eudoxus,
54
,
57
,
79
,
99

Euler, Leonhard,
119
,
121
,
125
,
316

Eutocius,
277

Faraday, Michael,
131
,
138

Fermat, Pierre de,
110
,
120
,
189

Fibonacci, Leonardo,
36

Fienberg, Stephen,
263

Fraenkel, Abraham Halevi,
285
,
335

Freedman, Michael,
357

Frege, Gottlob,
332

Fresnel, Augustin-Jean,
136

Freud, Sigmund,
24

Fourier, Joseph,
280

Gale, David,
232

Galileo Galilei,
94
,
105
,
127
,
188
,
326
,
375

Galois, Évariste,
364

Galvani, Luigi,
130

Gauss, Carl Friedrich,
145
,
202
,
280

Gell-Mann, Murray,
167

Gigerenzer, Gerd,
220

Gilbert, William,
130

Gilovitch, Thomas,
224

Gödel, Kurt,
286
,
289
,
337
,
352

Goldbach, Christian,
340

Goldwasser, Shafi,
300

Granger, Clive,
230

Grieves, Robin,
231

Gunter, Edmund,
282

Güth, Werner,
271

Hadamard, Jacques,
346
,
377

Haken, Wolfgang,
312

Hales, Thomas C.,
122

Halley, Edmond,
116
,
117

Hamilton, Richard,
359

Hamilton, William Rowan,
121

Harari, Haim,
388

Hare, Brian,
184

Heaviside, Oliver,
137

Heawood, Percy,
356

Heisenberg, Werner,
165

Hellman, Martin,
303

Henry, Joseph,
131

Heraclides,
79

Heron,
121

Hertz, Heinrich,
139

Higgs, Peter,
170

Hilbert, David,
330
,
352

Hipparchus,
87

Hippasus,
52

Holland, John,
309

Hooke, Robert,
116

Hubble, Edwin,
155

Hudde, Johannes,
197

Hyugens, Christiaan,
136
,
196

Hyugens, Ludwig,
197

Jäckle, Herbert,
176

James, Richard,
174

Jenyns, Leonard,
17

Kahneman, Daniel,
258
,
267

Kästner, Abraham,
145

Kayal, Neeraj,
299

Kempe, Alfred,
356

Kepler, Johannes,
74
,
102
,
105
,
169
,
361

Khayyám, Omar,
142

Kline, Morris,
35
,
407

Klügel, Georg,
145

Koehler, Otto,
22

Kolmogorov, Andrey,
210

Kronecker, Leopold,
325
,
327

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis,
121

Lamarck,
17

Laplace, Pierre-Simon,
202
,
208

Legendre, Adrien-Marie,
124

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von,
110
,
111
,
121
,
198
,
277
,
316
,
318
,
368

Leucippus,
72
,
159

Levine, Dov,
362

L'Hôpital, Guillaume François Antoine, marquis de,
368

Li, Tien-Yien,
377

Lie, Sophus,
168

Lima, Steven,
183

Lipson, Hod,
309

Lobachevsky, Nikolai,
147

Lorentz, Hendrik,
150
,
376

Lorenz, Edward,
376

Lucas, Robert,
229

Lyapunov, Aleksandr,
204

Mackay, Alan,
362

Maclaurin, Colin,
119

Malthus, Thomas,
17

Mandelbrot, Benoit,
176

Markov, Andrei,
204

Maxwell (Clerk Maxwell), James,
133
,
366

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