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Mathematician by Result

Can you name the famous mathematician commonly associated with the following theorems, assertions and ideas?
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Last updated: May 23, 2023
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A fundamental relation between the lengths of the sides of a right-angled triangle.
Pythagoras
Any consistent formal system in which a certain amount of arithmetic can be carried out is incomplete. Moreover, the consistency of this system cannot be proved within the system.
Kurt Gödel
The area of a circle is equal to pi multiplied by the square of the radius.
Archimedes
There exist infinitely many prime numbers.
Euclid
No positive integers a, b, c satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer n greater than 2.
Pierre de Fermat
An abstract model of computation, where symbols on an infinite tape are manipulated according to a set of rules.
Alan Turing
An identity relating five fundamental mathematical constants: 0, 1, e, pi and i. Famously described by physicist Richard Feynmann as "the most remarkable formula in mathematics."
Leonhard Euler
The assertion that there exists no infinite set with cardinality strictly between that of the natural numbers and that of the real numbers. Equivalently, 2^{ℵ_0}=ℵ_1.
Georg Cantor
Let a and b be integers with greatest common divisor d. Then, there exist integers x and y such that ax + by = d.
Étienne Bézout
For a subgroup H of any finite group G, the order of H divides the order of G.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
A formula generalising the expansion of (x+y)^n for any positive integer n. The coefficient of each term in the expansion is known as the binomial coefficient.
Isaac Newton
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