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A word population has many different meanings:

People, a magazine in amusement & celebrities. The People, a book of the Qur'an. In the English language, people occurs as collective noun. The humans come the set of persons distinguished by some most common property.

Charles Hermite
Includes a biography comparing him with other contemporaries of his, references and quotations.

Elie Cartan
A brief biography of Cartan and exposition of his work in applied topology.

Sophus Lie
A short history of the life and work of Sophus Lie, whose work, Lie groups, has applications in quantum mechanics in relativity.

Hermann Hankel
The mathematician who developed Hankel functions and the Hankel transform.

Gustav Jacobi
The mathematician whose work with coordinate transformations is still common in mathematical physics

Jean Fourier
A short biography on the man who invented the Fourier series and transforms.

George Green 1793-1841
Inventor of Green's functions. Biography, papers, bibliographical references, archival material at University of Nottingham,

Jean Delambre
The mathematician who analysed the orbit of Uranus and predicted a possible extra planet.

Vito Volterra
A short biography on Volterra and his work in differential equations and mathematical physics.

George Stokes
A short biography on the mathematician who created Stokes's theorem


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