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  2. Sylvestre François Lacroix - Wikipedia

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    In 1809, he was admitted to Faculté des Sciences de Paris. In 1812, he began teaching at the Collège de France , and was appointed chair of mathematics in 1815. When a second edition of the Traité du Calcul Différentiel et du Calcul Intégral was published in three volumes in 1810, 1814, and 1819, Lacroix renewed the text:

  3. Leconte Prize - Wikipedia

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    The Leconte Prize (French: Prix Leconte) is a prize created in 1886 by the French Academy of Sciences to recognize important discoveries in mathematics, physics, chemistry, natural history or medicine. In recent years the prize has been awarded in the specific categories of mathematics, physics, and biology.

  4. Jean le Rond d'Alembert - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert [a] (/ ˌ d æ l ə m ˈ b ɛər / DAL-əm-BAIR; [1] French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist.

  5. Michel Talagrand - Wikipedia

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    Peccot-Vimont Prize of the French Collège de France (1980) Servant Prize of the French Académie des sciences (1985) Invited Speaker to the International Congress of Mathematicians (Kyoto 1990) [7] Loève Prize in Probability (1995) [8] Fermat Prize for mathematical research (1997) [9] Corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences (1997)

  6. Pierre Pansu - Wikipedia

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    Pansu, Pierre (1989), "Métriques de Carnot-Carathéodory et quasiisométries des espaces symétriques de rang un", Annals of Mathematics, 129 (1): 1– 60, doi:10.2307/1971484, JSTOR 1971484. Prix Georges Charpak 2013, [1] , Académie des Sciences , France .

  7. Pierre-Louis Lions - Wikipedia

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    He holds the position of Professor of Partial differential equations and their applications at the Collège de France in Paris as well as a position at École Polytechnique. [4] [5] Since 2014, he has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. [6] In 1979, Lions married Lila Laurenti, with whom he has one son.

  8. Pierre-Simon Laplace - Wikipedia

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    What Laplace actually said, in Exposition du système du monde (1796), was that the Pope had ordered the comet to be "exorcised" (conjuré). It was Arago, in Des Comètes en général (1832), who first spoke of an excommunication. [119] [120] [121]

  9. Français du Monde–ADFE - Wikipedia

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    French of the World – Democratic Association of French Abroad (French: Français du Monde – Association démocratique des Français de l'étranger, Français du Monde–ADFE), sometimes abbreviated as FdM–ADFE, is a French organisation representing French people living outside France with a worldwide presence. It was established in 1980.