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Bernhard Riemann

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German mathematician (1826–1866) whose short career reshaped geometry, analysis, and number theory. He invented the curved geometry that Einstein would later use for general relativity, defined the integral that bears his name, and in a single eight-page paper on primes posed the hypothesis that still resists every assault. He died of tuberculosis in Italy at thirty-nine.

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