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Boris Delaunay

Boris Delaunay, born Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, was a Soviet mathematician in the geometry of numbers and algebra, known for the Delaunay triangulation from his 1934 paper Sur la sphère vide.

Charles Hermite

Charles Hermite (1822–1901) was a French mathematician who gave the first proof that e is transcendental, solved the fifth-degree equation using elliptic functions, and taught a generation of French analysts.

D. G. Champernowne

D. G. Champernowne, born David Gawen Champernowne, was a British mathematician and economist who, as a Cambridge undergraduate in 1933, constructed the first explicit normal number in base 10.

Edmund Hlawka

Edmund Hlawka (1916–2009) was an Austrian mathematician, professor at the University of Vienna, known for the Minkowski–Hlawka theorem, the Koksma–Hlawka inequality, and over 130 doctoral students.

Ewald Warning

Ewald Warning was a mathematician who published as E. Warning; his 1935 note, following Chevalley's work, became half of the Chevalley–Warning theorem in number theory.

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928) was an English mathematician and astronomer at Trinity College, Cambridge, who published nearly 400 papers and edited two mathematical journals for over half a century.

Mathias Lerch

Mathias Lerch, born Matyáš Lerch, was a Czech mathematician known for the Lerch transcendent and Lerch zeta function, who won the Paris Academy of Sciences Grand Prize in 1900.