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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
mathematician, philosopher, theologian, physicist, French moralist, statistician
Ian Stewart (born 1945)
mathematician, science communicator
- University of Cambridge, University of Warwick
Jean-Pierre Serre (born 1926)
mathematician
- University of Paris, Ćcole Normale SupĆ©rieure
Henri PoincarƩ (1854-1912)
mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher of science, topologist, polymath
- Mines ParisTech, Science Faculty of Paris
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)
linguist, mathematician, egyptologist, musicologist, music theorist, polymath, inventor, Catholic priest, astronomer, biologist, archaeologist, physicist, geologist, volcanologist, museologist, composer, historian, naturalist, orientalist, Catholic theologian, philosopher
- Pontifical Gregorian University, Gymnasium Theodorianum
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
architect, inventor, diarist, scientist, poet, artist, visual artist, engineer, philosopher, designer, mathematician
- Harvard University, Bates College
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
philosopher, linguist, cryptographer, poet, architect, architectural theoretician, music theorist, musicologist, sculptor, medalist, painter, mathematician, playwright, organist, scientist, artist, art theorist, humanist, official
- University of Bologna
Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694)
theologian, poet, philosopher, mathematician, essayist, logician, statistician
- University of Paris, College of Sorbonne