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Nationality culture groups mathematicians by the country and culture they came from. Wikipedia notes Noether "was born to a Jewish family in the Franconian town of Erlangen" and was later dismissed from her German university post in 1933 "when Germany's Nazi government dismissed Jews from university positions." This dimension shows how a mathematician's own background shaped the course of their career.

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Abraham Seidenberg

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Abraham Wald

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Alfred Tarski

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Allan Gibbard

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Alston Householder

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Andrew Beal

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Barry Mazur

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Bertram Kostant

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Chen-Ning Yang

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Claude Chevalley

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Donald Knuth

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Emil Post

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Ernst G. Straus

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Irvin S. Cohen

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John von Neumann

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Jon Barwise

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Joseph Kruskal

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Joseph L. Doob

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Joseph R. Shoenfield

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Josiah Willard Gibbs

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Karl Menger

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Ken Ribet

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Kenneth Appel

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Kenneth Arrow

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Kurt Gödel

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Leonid Levin

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Michael Freedman

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Michael Harris

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Nachman Aronszajn

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Olga Taussky-Todd

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Oscar Zariski

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Paul Cohen (mathematician)

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Richard Bellman

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Richard Courant

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Richard Hamilton

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Richard Hamming

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Richard Taylor

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Robert Carmichael

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Robert Lawson Vaught

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Robert Mills

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Roger Lyndon

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Samuel Eilenberg

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Sarvadaman Chowla

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Saunders Mac Lane

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Serge Lang

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Shizuo Kakutani

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Stanislaw Ulam

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Stephen Cole Kleene

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Stephen Cook

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Sumner Byron Myers

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Terence Tao

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Theodore Motzkin

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Thomas Hales

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Tibor Radó

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Walter Feit

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Wassily Hoeffding

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Wei-Liang Chow

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Ada Lovelace (Wikipedia)
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Karl Weierstrass, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St AndrewsContains: Karl Weierstrass, Opening summary
Quote, Contains: Karl Weierstrass, Opening summary
Karl Weierstrass is best known for his construction of the theory of complex functions by means of power series.
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