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Cartan, Élie Joseph

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Élie Joseph Cartan (1869-1951), French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications.

Cauchy, Augustin Louis

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Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789–1857), French mathematician. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of calculus and was thus an early pioneer of analysis.

Cavalieri, Bonaventura

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Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri (1598-1647), Italian mathematician who developed a method of indivisibles which became a factor in the development of the integral calculus.

Cayley, Arthur

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Arthur Cayley (1821-1895), British mathematician. The most important of his work is in developing the algebra of matrices and work in non-euclidean and n-dimensional geometry.

Chebyshev, Pafnuty

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Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894), Russian mathematician who is largely remembered for his investigations in number theory.

Clairaut, Alexis Claude

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Alexis Claude Clairaut (1713-1765), French mathematician who confirmed the Newton-Huygens belief that the Earth was flattened at the poles.

Cramer, Gabriel

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Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752), Swiss mathematician who worked on analysis and determinants.

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