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(l ´ônhärt oi´l r) (KEY) , 1707–83, Swiss mathematician. Born and educated at Basel, where he knew the Bernoullis, he went to St. Petersburg (17...
1702–61, English clergyman and mathematician. The son of a Nonconformist minister, he was privately educated and earned his livelihood as a minister...
(v r´n r fôrs´män) (KEY) , 1904–79, German physician and physiologist, M.D. Univ. of Berlin (1929). In the late 1920s, he developed the techniqu...
1872–1934, American scholar, b. Cincinnati. Krapp joined the faculty of Columbia Univ. in 1897, was professor of English at the Univ. of Cincinnati ...
(bäl-sh m-tôv) (KEY) , c.1698–1760, Jewish founder of modern Hasidism, b. Ukraine. His life is the subject of many tales that circulated even befo...
( l ´ zhôz f´ kärtäN´) (KEY) , 1869–1951, French mathematician. The son of a village blacksmith, he graduated from the École normale and taug...