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All disciplines Mathematics32 Statistics1 Computing9

Pure and applied mathematics, statistics, logic and the origins of computing.

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Émilie du Châtelet

1706 – 1749

Translated Newton into French and established kinetic energy as mv².

France·Physics · Mathematics

Leonhard Euler

1707 – 1783

The most prolific mathematician ever; wrote much of modern notation.

Switzerland·Mathematics

Carl Friedrich Gauss

1777 – 1855

The Prince of Mathematicians; number theory, geodesy, magnetism.

Germany·Mathematics · Astronomy · Physics