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||Richard Dagobert Brauer (d. April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory.
||Richard Dagobert Brauer (d. April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory.
File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] publishes an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and erase the [[Forbidden Ratio]].


||1996 – Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905) - Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone".
||1996 – Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905) - Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone".

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