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Mathematician; Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 1 portrait 
Mathematician; first President of the Royal Society
Sitter in 4 portraits 
Mathematicians
155 People in group
1935-2006
Poet, novelist, philosopher of mathematics and civil servant
Sitter in 1 portrait
Poet, novelist, philosopher of mathematics and civil servant
Sitter in 1 portrait
1929-2019
Mathematician; Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 3 portraits
Mathematician; Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 3 portraits
1929-1995
Mathematical physicist and mathematician; Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Oxford
Sitter in 1 portrait
Mathematical physicist and mathematician; Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Oxford
Sitter in 1 portrait
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
1891-1970Mathematician; Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 1 portrait
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker
1620-1684Mathematician; first President of the Royal Society
Sitter in 4 portraits
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