>> Well, anyone whose name we still know 500+ years later would probably 
>> fall under "especially famous" for me. 
> 
> 
> Yeah, I guess if you don't count Pythagoras as a famous mathematician, 
> we might get some gaps in there, yah. ;-)

Wolfram limits the number of people's names you're allowed to use. The 
list has to be short, so it's kind of arbitrary which people you choose 
to include.

Euclid, Archimedes and Pythagorus are ancient Greek. Then there's a gap 
of about 1,000 years, and then there's a huge chunk of people all alive 
at the same time - Euler, Gauss, Cauchy, Fermat, Pascal, Fibonacci, 
Netwon, Laplace, the whole shooting match. And then there's a gap until 
the present day.

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