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Nationality	Name	Hint
French		Famous for his last theorem
Greek		Known as the 'Father of Geometry'
Swiss		Solved the Konigsberg bridge problem, and introduced the exponential function
Greek		Famous theorem to do with hypotenuses
English		Jointly credited with inventing calculus, and hugely influential in the study of mechanics
Italian		Proved his theorem that the order of a subgroup of a group must divide the order of the group
French		∂²f/∂x²+∂²f/∂y²=0 is an example of his partial differential equation
Hungarian		Famous collaborator, mathematicians get a number based on number of collaborations needed to link to him
German		Known as 'Princeps mathematicorum', invented modular arithmetic, an elimination method for matrices, and a statistics distribution, among many others
Italian		Sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21...
French		Invented a coordinate system of geometry, also a famous philosopher
French		Early pioneer of analysis, sequences or series can be described as ______ convergent
British		Very influential in the breaking of the Enigma code
French		Came up with a way of breaking a periodic function into the sum of sine and cosine functions
American		Worked on game theory, subject of the film 'A Beautiful Mind'
German		Has an unsolved hypothesis to do with his zeta functions
Prussian		Conjectured that every even number can be written as the sum of two primes, still unproven
British		Solved the last theorem of number 1 above
French		Had a triangle of numbers and an SI unit named after him
German		Jointly credited with inventing calculus, a proflific inventor in the field of mechanical calculators and refiner of the the binary system

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