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Euclid
Mathematician
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Al-Khwarizmi
Mathematician & astronomer

Alan Turing
Mathematician & computer scientist

Archimedes
Mathematician, physicist & engineer

Ada Lovelace
Mathematician & writer

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician & physicist
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician

Pythagoras
Philosopher & mathematician

James Clerk Maxwell
Physicist & mathematician

René Descartes
Philosopher & mathematician

Georg Cantor
Mathematician

Leonhard Euler
Mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician and philosopher

Emmy Noether
Mathematician
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