03 · Meet
The figures
125 personalitiesEvery personality in the corpus, from the most present to the most discreet — the lives, intuitions and obsessions behind the great names.
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125 personalities
- Paul Erdős11
- Émile Borel8
- Émilie du Châtelet8
- ★Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz6
- ★Isaac Newton6
- John Conway6
- Maryam Mirzakhani6
- ★Archimède5
- ★Euclide4
- Gabriel Cramer4
- Charlotte Angas Scott3
- Donald Knuth3
- ★Leonhard Euler3
- Li Ye3
- Platon3
- ★Pythagore3
- Sophie Germain3
- Yang Hui3
- Alexander Grothendieck2
- ★Blaise Pascal2
- ★David Hilbert2
- Felix Klein2
- Georg Cantor2
- Giuseppe Peano2
- Hypatie d'Alexandrie2
- J. Douglas Carroll2
- Karine Chemla2
- Kurt Gödel2
- Liu Hui2
- Luca Pacioli2
- Matteo Ricci2
- Oulipo2
- ★Pierre de Fermat2
- ★René Descartes2
- Sofia Kovalevskaïa2
- Terence Tao2
- Voltaire2
- Xu Guangqi2
- Zhu Shijie2
- Achille Goulard1
- Adrien-Marie Legendre1
- Al-Battani1
- Al-Biruni1
- Al-Kindi1
- Albert Einstein1
- Alexis Clairaut1
- Alfred North Whitehead1
- Alphonse Rebière1
- Ambrogio Lorenzetti1
- Andreï Markov1
- Apollonius de Perge1
- Aristarque de Samos1
- Aristote1
- Arthur Harold Stone1
- Aryeh Dvoretzky1
- Bertrand Russell1
- Brahmagupta1
- ★Carl Friedrich Gauss1
- Catherine Thevenot1
- Cédric Aubouy1
- Cédric Villani1
- Charlotte Pollet1
- Choi Seok-jeong1
- Colin Maclaurin1
- Du Zhigeng1
- Édouard Lucas1
- Edward Kasner1
- Elizebeth Smith Friedman1
- Emmy Noether1
- Enrico Fermi1
- Éric Trouillot1
- Étienne Bézout1
- Félix Tisserand1
- Filippo Brunelleschi1
- Frank Ramsey1
- Gabriel Peignot1
- Galileo Galilei1
- George Boole1
- George Paul Csicsery1
- George Szekeres1
- Gérald Tenenbaum1
- Girard Desargues1
- Gladys West1
- Günter Ziegler1
- Helmut Maier1
- Henri Genaille1
- Héron d'Alexandrie1
- Hong Jeong-ha1
- Jacques Bernoulli1
- Jean-Pierre Reveillès1
- Jia-Ming Ying1
- John Charles Fields1
- John Napier1
- John Tukey1
- Jorge Luis Borges1
- Joseph Moxon1
- Kikuchi Dairoku1
- ★Leonardo Fibonacci1
- Ludwig Boltzmann1
- Marcel Berger1
- Maria Mannone1
- Martin Aigner1
- Mary Somerville1
- Michèle Audin1
- Milton Sirotta1
- Naoki Yoshimoto1
- Neil Sloane1
- Nicolas de Condorcet1
- Pablo Hernández Cámara1
- Paul Cohen1
- Pierre François Verhulst1
- Qin Jiushao1
- Richard Dedekind1
- Roger Mansuy1
- Rózsa Péter1
- Seki Takakazu1
- Sergueï Alexandrovitch Ratchinski1
- Shinichi Mochizuki1
- Siméon Denis Poisson1
- Takebe Katahiro1
- Théétète1
- Wilhelm Ackermann1
- William Braikenridge1
- Yves Meret1
- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat1