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#	Name	Pronunciation	Nationality	Born	Died	Age
1	Pythagoras	pie-THAG-uh-russ	Ancient Greek	c.570 BC	c.495 BC	75
2	Alexander the Great	Al-ig-ZAN-der thuh grayt	Macedonian	356 BC	323 BC	32
3	Euclid	YOU-klid	Ancient Greek	c.325 BC	c.265 BC
4	Archimedes	ar-kuh-MEE-deez	Ancient Greek	c.287 BC	c.212 BC	75
5	Diophantus	dy-oh-FAN-tuhs	Ancient Greek	c.200–214 AD	c.284–298 AD
6	René Descartes	ruh-NAY day-KART	French	1596	1650	53
7	Isaac Newton	EYE-zik NYOO-tuhn	English	1643	1727	84
8	Leonhard Euler	LAY-uh-nard OY-ler	German	1707	1783	76
9	Pierre-Simon Laplace	pee-AIR see-MOHN la-PLASS	French	1749	1827	77
10	Adrien-Marie Legendre	Ah-dree-en Mah-ree Luh-zhon-dr	French	1752	1833	80
11	Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier	zhawn bap-TEEST zho-ZEF foo-ree-AY	French	1768	1830	62
12	Carl Friedrich Gauss	Karl FREE-drik Gows	German	1777	1855	77
13	Augustin-Louis Cauchy	oh-goo-STAN loo-ee koh-SHEE	French	1789	1857	67
14	Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky	Nee-koh-lyee Ee-vuh-noh-vich Loh-buh-CHEV-skee	Russian	1792	1856	63
15	Jakob Steiner	YAH-kob STY-nur	Swiss	1796	1863	67
16	János Bolyai	YAH-nosh BO-yah-ee	Hungarian	1802	1860	57
17	Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi	Karl GOO-stahf YAH-kop yah-KOH-bee	German	1804	1851	46
18	Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet	Pay-ter Goos-tahf Luh-ZHURN Deer-ih-KLAY	German	1805	1859	54
19	Évariste Galois	Ay-vah-REEST Gah-LWAH	French	1811	1832	20
20	George Boole	Jawrj Bool	English	1815	1864	49
21	Karl Weierstrass	KAHRL VY-er-strahs	German	1815	1897	81
22	Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein	FAIR-dee-nant GOT-hold MAHKS EYE-zen-shtine	German	1823	1852	29
23	Leopold Kronecker	LAY-oh-pohlt KROH-neck-er	German	1823	1891	68
24	Enrico Betti	En-REE-ko BEH-tee	Italian	1823	1892	68
25	Francesco Brioschi	fran-CHEH-skoh BREE-oh-skee	Italian	1824	1897	72
26	Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann	GAY-org FREED-rikh BERN-hart REE-mahn	German	1826	1866	39
27	Richard Dedekind	RIKH-ahrt DEH-deh-kint	German	1831	1916	84
28	Felice Casorati	feh-LEE-cheh kah-soh-RAH-tee	Italian	1835	1890	54
29	Georg Cantor	GAY-org KAHN-tor	German-Russian	1845	1918	72
30	Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt	HAHNS KAHRL FREE-drikh fon MAHN-gohldt	German	1854	1925	71
31	Henri Poincaré	Ahn-ree Pwahn-ka-ray	French	1854	1912	58
32	David Hilbert	DAY-vid HIL-bert	German	1862	1943	81
33	Jacques Hadamard	zhak ah-da-MAHR	French	1865	1963	97
34	Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin	Sharl Zhan duh lah vah-LEY Poo-san	Belgian	1866	1962	95
35	Henri Lebesgue	On-REE Luh-BEG	French	1875	1941	66
36	Albert Einstein	AL-bert EYEN-stine	German	1879	1955	76
37	Carl Ludwig Siegel	KARL LOOT-vik ZEE-guhl	German	1896	1981	84
38	Kurt Gödel	Kurt Gur-dell	German	1906	1978	71
39	Alan Turing	AL-uhn TUR-ing	English	1912	1954	41
40	Richard Feynman	RICH-erd FINE-muhn	American	1918	1988	69