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# Name Pronunciation Nationality
1 Pythagoras pie-THAG-uh-russ Ancient Greek
2 Alexander the Great Al-ig-ZAN-der thuh grayt Macedonian
3 Euclid YOU-klid Ancient Greek
4 Archimedes ar-kuh-MEE-deez Ancient Greek
5 Diophantus dy-oh-FAN-tuhs Ancient Greek
6 René Descartes ruh-NAY day-KART French
7 Isaac Newton EYE-zik NYOO-tuhn English
8 Leonhard Euler LAY-uh-nard OY-ler German
9 Pierre-Simon Laplace pee-AIR see-MOHN la-PLASS French
10 Adrien-Marie Legendre Ah-dree-en Mah-ree Luh-zhon-dr French
11 Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier zhawn bap-TEEST zho-ZEF foo-ree-AY French
12 Carl Friedrich Gauss Karl FREE-drik Gows German
13 Augustin-Louis Cauchy oh-goo-STAN loo-ee koh-SHEE French
14 Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Nee-koh-lyee Ee-vuh-noh-vich Loh-buh-CHEV-skee Russian
15 Jakob Steiner YAH-kob STY-nur Swiss
16 János Bolyai YAH-nosh BO-yah-ee Hungarian
17 Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Karl GOO-stahf YAH-kop yah-KOH-bee German
18 Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet Pay-ter Goos-tahf Luh-ZHURN Deer-ih-KLAY German
19 Évariste Galois Ay-vah-REEST Gah-LWAH French
20 George Boole Jawrj Bool English
21 Karl Weierstrass KAHRL VY-er-strahs German
22 Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein FAIR-dee-nant GOT-hold MAHKS EYE-zen-shtine German
23 Leopold Kronecker LAY-oh-pohlt KROH-neck-er German
24 Enrico Betti En-REE-ko BEH-tee Italian
25 Francesco Brioschi fran-CHEH-skoh BREE-oh-skee Italian
26 Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann GAY-org FREED-rikh BERN-hart REE-mahn German
27 Richard Dedekind RIKH-ahrt DEH-deh-kint German
28 Felice Casorati feh-LEE-cheh kah-soh-RAH-tee Italian
29 Georg Cantor GAY-org KAHN-tor German-Russian
30 Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt HAHNS KAHRL FREE-drikh fon MAHN-gohldt German
31 Henri Poincaré Ahn-ree Pwahn-ka-ray French
32 David Hilbert DAY-vid HIL-bert German
33 Jacques Hadamard zhak ah-da-MAHR French
34 Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin Sharl Zhan duh lah vah-LEY Poo-san Belgian
35 Henri Lebesgue On-REE Luh-BEG French
36 Albert Einstein AL-bert EYEN-stine German
37 Carl Ludwig Siegel KARL LOOT-vik ZEE-guhl German
38 Kurt Gödel Kurt Gur-dell German
39 Alan Turing AL-uhn TUR-ing English
40 Richard Feynman RICH-erd FINE-muhn American