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Posed by names the mathematician who first stated a conjecture. Wikipedia notes the Poincare conjecture was "originally conjectured by Henri Poincare in 1904," nearly a century before anyone managed to prove it. This dimension connects a conjecture back to the person who first put it into words.

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Adrien-Marie Legendre

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Alain Connes

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Alexander Grothendieck

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Alphonse de Polignac

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Andrew Beal

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Atle Selberg

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Bent Fuglede

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Beppo Levi

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Bernhard Riemann

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Bryan Birch

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Christian Goldbach

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Christopher Zeeman

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Constantin Carathéodory

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David Masser

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Élie Cartan

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Emil Artin

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Enrico Bombieri

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Ernst G. Straus

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Ernst Kummer

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Garrett Birkhoff

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Georg Cantor

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Gerhard Ringel

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Gottfried Köthe

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Graham Higman

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Harald Cramér

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Harold Stark

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Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt

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Heinz Hopf

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Henri Brocard

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Hugh Montgomery

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Hugo Hadwiger

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Hyman Bass

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Jacques Dixmier

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Jacques Hadamard

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Jean-Pierre Serre

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Jochanan Schönheim

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John Conway

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John Tate

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Jorg Wills

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Joseph Oesterle

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Kurt Mahler

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László Lovász

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Leonid Levin

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Lothar Collatz

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Marcel Herzog

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Michel Crouzeix

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Mikhail Gromov

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Ott-Heinrich Keller

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Otto Toeplitz

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Paul Erdos

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Peter Frankl

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Peter Swinnerton-Dyer

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Robert Lawson Vaught

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Samuel Eilenberg

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Serge Lang

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Stanislaw Ulam

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Stephen Cook

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Takao Fujita

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Theodor Schneider

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Thomas W. Cusick

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Vadim G. Vizing

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W. T. Tutte

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Walter Feit

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Warren M. Hirsch

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William Vallance Douglas Hodge

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Yoshikazu Nakai

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Zsolt Tuza

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