Referenced names

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Abel, Niels Henrik (Norwegian; 1802-1829)

Banach, Stefan (Polish; 1892-1945) [born in Kraków, then Austria-Hungary now Poland]

Bernstein, Felix (German; 1878-1956)

Bolyai, Farkas (Wolfgang) (Hungarian; 1775-1856) [father of János Bolyai 1802-1860]

[born in Bolya, Transylvania, Austrian Empire, now Sibiu, Romania]

Borel, Émile (French; 1871-1956) [Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel]

Cantor, Georg (born in St. Petersburg, Russia but lived in Germany; 1845-1918) [Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor]

Cauchy, Augustin (French; 1789-1857) [Augustin Louis Cauchy]

Dehn, Max (German; 1878-1952) [Max Wilhelm Dehn]

Euler, Leonhard (Swiss; 1707-1783) [He mostly worked in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, Prussia]

[He introduced the notations e, pi and i.]

Fermat, Pierre de (French; 1601-1665)

Gerwien, P???. (Prussian; 18??-18??)

Hilbert, David (German; 1862-1943) [born in Königsberg, Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia]

[His lecture "The Problems of Mathematics" on 2nd ICM, 1900 Paris contains his famous 23 problems.]

König, Dénes (Hungarian; 1884-1944)

Laczkovich, Miklós (Hungarian; 1948-)

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (Italian; 1736-1813) [born as Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia]

Schröder, Ernst (German; 1841-1902) [Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder]

Tarski, Alfred (Polish; 1902-1983) [born in Warsaw, then Russia now Poland]

Tychonov, Andrei Nikolaevich (Russian; 1906-1993)

Wilson, John (English; 1741-1793)

Zermelo, Ernst (German; 1871-1953) [pron. Tsermelo] [Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo]

Zorn, Max (German; 1906-1993) [pron. Tsorn]

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