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Karl Marx. So you didn't know he was a mathematician? A book of his collected mathematical papers is in our math library, which is more than most mathematicians can claim. (They are mostly attempts to understand the definition of a derivative if I recall correctly.) They were quite popular during the cultural revolution, Chinese mathematicians presumably figuring that the study of dialectical calculus was better then a one-way trip to one of Mao's holiday resorts.