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Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher, was a child prodigy.
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A leading French mathematician, Henri Poincaré, made a similar point a few weeks later.
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Full credit was given by Hariot and his friends to the distinguished French mathematician.
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Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, composed at sixteen a tract on the conic sections.
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist, was born in Auxerre, 251 years ago today.
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A year later, French mathematician Urbain J. J. Leverrier, working independently of Adams, predicted Neptune's location.
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The eminent French mathematician A. Labosne, in his modern edition of Bachet, gives the answer incorrectly.
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In 1809 he married a niece of Marshal Grouchy, daughter of the Marquis Condorcet, the French mathematician.
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Later, a mathematical description of periodic motions was perfected by the French mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier.
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Born and raised in Boston, she was the daughter of a French mathematician and his Senegalese wife.
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On May 23rd, King Harald V of Norway, will present the Abel Prize to French mathematician Yves Meyer.
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Today we celebrate the birthday of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665).
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The spelling of the last name of French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier has been corrected throughout the text.
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The great French mathematician Henri Poincaré also described how sudden inspiration occurs unexpectedly, but always following a period of concentrated research.
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The 19th-century French mathematician Henri Poincaré summed up this creative role thus: To create consists precisely in not making useless combinations.
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Another key player was Louis Bachelier, the obscure French mathematician who argued that bond prices move according to a random walk.