Mathematics and the Real World (71 page)

Atanasoff, John,
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Atiyah, Michael,
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Aumann, Robert J.,
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Babbage, Charles,
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Bacon, Francis,
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Ball, John,
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Bar-Hillel, Maya,
258

Barrow, Isaac,
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Bayes, Thomas,
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Beeckman, Isaac,
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Bénézet, Louis P.,
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Berkeley, George (bishop),
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Bernoulli, Daniel,
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Bernoulli, Jacob,
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Bernoulli, Johann,
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Berry, Clifford,
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Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka,
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Black, Fisher,
243

Blech, Ilan,
362

Blum, Paul,
30

Bohr, Niels,
161

Boltzmann, Ludwig,
134

Bolyai, Johann,
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Bolzano, Bernhard,
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Boole, George,
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Borda, Jean-Charles, chevalier de,
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Borel, Émile,
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Born, Max,
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Bourbaki, Nicolas,
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Boyle, Robert,
159

Brahe, Tycho,
104

Brouwer, Luitzen,
334

Brown, Robert,
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Cannarsa, Piermarco,
354

Cantor, Georg,
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Cao, Huai-Dong,
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Cardano, Gerolamo,
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Cauchy, Augustine-Louis,
320

Cavalleri, Antonine,
119

Cellina, Arrigo,
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Chebyshev, Pafnuty,
204

Church, Alonso,
289

Church, Russell,
24

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

Cohen, Paul,
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Condorcet, marquis de,
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Cooly, James,
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Copernicus, Nicolaus,
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Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de,
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Cournot, Antoine Augustin,
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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,
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Dedekind, Richard,
321

Democritus,
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de Moivre, Abraham,
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De Morgan, Augustus,
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Descartes, René,
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de Witt, Johan,
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Diffie, Whitfield,
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Diophantus,
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Dirac, Paul,
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Einstein, Albert,
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Eisenberg, Yehuda,
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Ekhad, Shalosh B.,
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Englert, François,
170

Erastothenes,
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Erdős, Paul,
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Euclid,
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Eudoxus,
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Euler, Leonhard,
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Eutocius,
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Faraday, Michael,
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Fermat, Pierre de,
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Fibonacci, Leonardo,
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Fienberg, Stephen,
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Fraenkel, Abraham Halevi,
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Freedman, Michael,
357

Frege, Gottlob,
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Fresnel, Augustin-Jean,
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Freud, Sigmund,
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Fourier, Joseph,
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Gale, David,
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Galileo Galilei,
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Galois, Évariste,
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Galvani, Luigi,
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Gauss, Carl Friedrich,
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Gell-Mann, Murray,
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Gigerenzer, Gerd,
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Gilbert, William,
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Gilovitch, Thomas,
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Gödel, Kurt,
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Goldbach, Christian,
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Goldwasser, Shafi,
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Granger, Clive,
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Grieves, Robin,
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Gunter, Edmund,
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Güth, Werner,
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Hadamard, Jacques,
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Haken, Wolfgang,
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Hales, Thomas C.,
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Halley, Edmond,
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Hamilton, Richard,
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Hamilton, William Rowan,
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Harari, Haim,
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Hare, Brian,
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Heaviside, Oliver,
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Heawood, Percy,
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Heisenberg, Werner,
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Hellman, Martin,
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Henry, Joseph,
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Heraclides,
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Heron,
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Hertz, Heinrich,
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Higgs, Peter,
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Hilbert, David,
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Hipparchus,
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Hippasus,
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Holland, John,
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Hooke, Robert,
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Hubble, Edwin,
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Hudde, Johannes,
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Hyugens, Christiaan,
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Hyugens, Ludwig,
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Jäckle, Herbert,
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James, Richard,
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Jenyns, Leonard,
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Kahneman, Daniel,
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Kästner, Abraham,
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Kayal, Neeraj,
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Kempe, Alfred,
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Kepler, Johannes,
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Khayyám, Omar,
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Kline, Morris,
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Klügel, Georg,
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Koehler, Otto,
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Kolmogorov, Andrey,
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Kronecker, Leopold,
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Lagrange, Joseph-Louis,
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Lamarck,
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Laplace, Pierre-Simon,
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Legendre, Adrien-Marie,
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von,
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Leucippus,
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Levine, Dov,
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L'Hôpital, Guillaume François Antoine, marquis de,
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Li, Tien-Yien,
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Lie, Sophus,
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Lima, Steven,
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Lipson, Hod,
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Lobachevsky, Nikolai,
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Lorentz, Hendrik,
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Lorenz, Edward,
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Lucas, Robert,
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Lyapunov, Aleksandr,
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Mackay, Alan,
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Maclaurin, Colin,
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Malthus, Thomas,
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Mandelbrot, Benoit,
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Markov, Andrei,
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Maxwell (Clerk Maxwell), James,
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