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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler was the most prolific mathematician of all time whose ideas—ranging from the bridges of Königsberg to the orbits of planets—still power today’s GPS, computer chips, and musical tuning systems.
PeopleHenri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a French mathematical genius whose revolutionary insights into topology, celestial mechanics, and the philosophy of science laid the groundwork for modern chaos theory and influenced Einstein's relativity.
MathematicsPoincaré Conjecture
The Poincaré conjecture is a fundamental theorem in geometric topology, asserting that any simply connected, closed 3-dimensional manifold is topologically equivalent to a 3-sphere.