1. Favorite French Mathematicians A List of My FAVORITE french mathematicians contributions to mathematics makehim one of the most important mathematicians of the nineteenth century. http://www.jazzie.com/sds/reference/mathematicians/french.html

A List of My F AVORITE F RENCH M ATHEMATICIANS Cauchy , Augustin-Louis Cauchy's contributions to mathematics make him one of the most important mathematicians of the nineteenth century. His work includes almost 800 papers covering vast areas of mathematics, but the singular contribution which makes him one of my favorites was his work using a precise concept of the limit of a sequence. It's possible Cauchy was the first to comprehend the implications of this concept's modern definition. (Briefly, that sequence a has the limit l if, for any epsilon no matter how small, there is some N such that, for all n greater than N , the n th term of a lies within epsilon of l Laplace , Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Some people believe Laplace should be remembered primarily for his , a five volume work on planetary motion. Others feel he should be remembered for his contributions to the theory of probability. They may be right, but I think first of the linear transform which bears his name. The amazing properties of the Laplace transform (and its inverse) can be used to solve some systems of linear differential equations by transforming them into the Laplace domain, performing simple algebraic operations on them there, and then applying the inverse Laplace transform to obtain the solution in the original domain. Pascal , Blaise Although he did not invent Pascal's Triangle it came to the attention of many Europeans through Pascal's use of it in studies of combinatorics and probability, and thus it bears his name. His religious philosophy is beyond the scope of this discussion, but his

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3. CategoryFrench Mathematicians - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia This category is for french mathematicians. Mathematicians can also be browsedby field and by period. Articles in category french mathematicians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_mathematicians

4. Mathematicians Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries French Contemporaries of Lagrange and Laplace tienne B zout (1730 1783) http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

5. Jean Dieudonné - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Formative on all french mathematicians of his generation was the hecatomb theloss of so many of the best students of the generation immediately before, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dieudonné

Jean Dieudonn© From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jean-Alexandre-Eug¨ne Dieudonn© July 1 November 29 ) was a French mathematician, known for research in abstract algebra and functional analysis , for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and the ‰l©ments de g©om©trie alg©brique project of Alexander Grothendieck , and as a historian of mathematics, particularly in the fields of functional analysis and algebraic topology . His work on the classical groups (the book La G©om©trie des groupes classiques was published in 1955), and on formal groups , introducing what now are called Dieudonn© modules , had a major effect on those fields. He was born and brought up in Lille , with a formative stay in England where he was introduced to algebra . In 1924 he was accepted for the ‰cole Normale Sup©rieure , where Andr© Weil was a contemporary. He began working, conventionally enough, in complex analysis . In 1934 he was one of the group of normaliens convened by Weil, which would become 'Bourbaki'. Dieudonn© was always the most explicit about Bourbaki: where the other participants gave the impression of not wishing to shed the student atmosphere of pranks, hoaxes and gratuitous secrecy and disinformative comments to outsiders, he would provide a reasoned approach to the group and its aims. Formative on all French mathematicians of his generation was the 'hecatomb': the loss of so many of the best students of the generation immediately before, as casualties of

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8. Read This The French Mathematician Read This! The MAA Online book review column review of The French Mathematician, by Tom Petsinis http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

9. CNRS - French Mathematicians Have It Down Cold The CNRS answer has been to send french mathematicians to work in Russia. Such amove brings not only scientific benefit to the participants but also http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/216.htm

Your browser does not support script CNRS Institutional publications The CNRS on Time for Europe RESEARCH IN EUROPE ... Print French Mathematicians Have It Down Cold Inauguration of a Franco-Russian Mathematics Laboratory in Moscow In March 2002 the CNRS signed an agreement with the Independent University of Moscow and the Russian Academy of Sciences setting up a French-Russian laboratory focused on mathematics and its interface with computer science and theoretical physics. The objective? Lend support to the brilliant Russian school of mathematics and at the same time encourage fruitful exchange. The excellence and originality of the school of mathematics which grew up in the Soviet Union are recognized worldwide. Since the collapse of the Soviet empire, however, the future continuity of this brilliant tradition is endangered by chronic lack of funds. Large numbers of Russian mathematicians have been driven by need to seek jobs in the West; the United States in particular has rolled out the red carpet to the best and brightest of them. Things are, however, not that simple, as Christian Peskine, deputy scientific director of Mathematics in the CNRS' Physical and Mathematical Sciences Department (SPM), makes clear. “Russian scientists are profoundly attached to their country and culture, and they look askance at Westerners recruiters on shopping trips.” In addition, a young Russian who goes to work abroad full-time in a few years loses contact with his or her scientific culture while acquiring that of the host country, with the attendant gains and losses of that trade-off.

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11. ABC News Who's Counting Google Made Surreal of Potential Literature), Oulipo for short, was the name of a small group of primarily French writers, mathematicians and academics devoted to http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

12. Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » Weil’s Letter From Prison The great French mathematician André Weil spent the months of FebruaryMay It’s not so much that prominent french mathematicians were killed in WWI, http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog/archives/000153.html

Not Even Wrong FY 2006 Budget Request The Road to Reality English translation has just appeared in the latest Notices of the AMS. An Invitation to Arithmetic Geometry This entry was posted on Thursday, February 10th, 2005 at 12:22 pm and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. Daniel Doro Ferrante Says: February 10th, 2005 at 2:33 pm Hi Peter, Cheers, Peter Says: February 10th, 2005 at 2:42 pm Hi Daniel, Oops, typo in html. Fixed now. Thanks for pointing this out! Peter Alejandro Rivero Says: February 11th, 2005 at 11:20 am Now I think about, was Weil also in prison during WWI or was he too young? Peter Says: February 11th, 2005 at 11:35 am D R Lunsford Says: February 11th, 2005 at 12:16 pm The parallel story of A. Raabe is worth mentioning. He was arrested in Krakow and died at Auschwitz before he could band together with other physicists for the purpose of making political statements or abstraction committees. He did very interesting work on relativistic rotators as a kid.

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16. Viete the poor quality of french mathematicians saying that no Frenchman could solve by Harriot and his friends to the distinguished French mathematician. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Viete.html

Born: Died: 13 Dec 1603 in Paris, France Click the picture above to see two larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing Philip II of Spain, a champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation, supported the Holy League by sending money and troops to France. After the murder of Henry III, Philip claimed the throne of France for his daughter, Isabella Clara Eugenia. A letter to Philip dated 28 October 1589 written in code fell into the hands of Henry of Navarre who was to become the next king, Henry IV. ... when Philip, assuming that the cipher could not be broken, discovered that the French were aware of his military plans, he complained to the Pope that black magic was being employed against his country. circle could be squared , an angle trisected , and the cube doubled using only ruler and compass . He showed in these lectures that the "proofs" which had been published earlier in the year were fallacious. Roomen had proposed a problem which involved solving an equation of degree 45. The ambassador from the Netherlands made comments to Henry IV on the poor quality of French mathematicians saying that no Frenchman could solve

17. French Mathematics As a result the French mathematical community decided to honour her as best they The prominent french mathematicians of the time felt as though Sofia http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Projects/Ellison/Chapters/Ch13.html

Sofia Kovalevskaya MacTutor Index Previous page (Professorship and Mittag-Leffler) Contents Next page (A Short Break) French Mathematics Mittag-Leffler viewed mathematics very much as an international enterprise, and so it was because of both him and her work for Acta Mathematica Charles Hermite Mittag-Leffler Weierstrass and Sofia as, the mutual admiration society of mathematics in the late nineteenth century. In 1886 the fact that Sofia had made a significant breakthrough in her work was a fact known to many of the more prominent French mathematicians. At this time she managed to clarify the situation with regard to the use of theta functions in the solution of the fixed point problem, and was greatly assisted by the ideas of Weierstrass on ultra-elliptic integrals. It was becoming increasingly clear to everyone at this time that Sofia and her work would never receive the recognition which they deserved due largely to her sex. As a result the French mathematical community decided to honour her as best they could. The Prix Bordin The Prix Bordin was the second most prestigious in a very long line of awards given out by the French Academy of Sciences. The prominent French mathematicians of the time felt as though Sofia deserved some kind of reward for her work, and the

18. A Fate Of The Great Mathematical Discoveries The name of the French mathematician Evarist Galois is wellknown in mathematics . However even the greatest french mathematicians Cauchy and Fourier http://www.goldenmuseum.com/1103MathDiscover_engl.html

A fate of the great mathematical discoveries Nikolay Lobatchevski (1792 - 1856) Mikhail Ostrogradski (1801 - 1862) And during all his life Lobatchevski was subjected to ridicule on the part of the official Russian academic science of that period. Lobatchevski's recognition came from the West science due the genius mathematician Gauss who became the only mathematician who could access properly Lobatchevski's works in geometry. According to Gauss' proposal Lobatchevski was chosen by the Corresponding Member of the Gettingen scientific society. It was other example from the history of the French 19th century mathematics. The name of the French mathematician Evarist Galois is well-known in mathematics. His mathematical works gave the origin of modern algebra. However at his life Evarist Galois was well-known as revolutionary. For public speeches against royal regime he was twice in prison. In 1832 in the age of 21 he was killed on the duel organized by his enemies. His basic mathematical works named later by his name Evarist Galois obtained in the age of 16-18 when he studied in the Lyceum. Galois sent his works to the Paris Academy of Sciences. However even the greatest French mathematicians Cauchy and Fourier cannot understand Galois works. According to legend, academician Cauchy threw out all mathematical Galois' works to the garbage. Cauchy (1789 - 1857) Galois (1811-1832) Galois' works were read and published for 14 years later of his died. In 1870, that is for 38 years later of his died the famous French mathematician Jordan wrote the book on mathematical Galois' investigations and due this book Galois' theory became common property of the world.

19. IMU Bulletin No 41, April 1998 In March 1997, C. Guillopé and J.P. Kahane, two french mathematicians, membersof the French Commission for Sciences of UNESCO, asked me to join them for http://www.mathunion.org/Publications/Bulletins/41/wmy2000_report.html

IMU International Mathematical Union Bulletin no 41, April 1998 Report on preparations for the World Mathematical Year WMY 2000 Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel, Paris (France) History On May 6th 1992 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the then chairman of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), Professor Jacques-Louis Lions declared the year 2000 to be "The World Mathematical Year" (cf "Declaration of Rio de Janeiro on Mathematics", first number of the Newsletter 2000). This special event has the sponsorship of UNESCO, and the International Mathematical Union, with the support of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), The Third World Academy of Sciences, The French and Brazilian Academies of Sciences, and several Governments. It aims at three main issues: The great challenges of the 21st century Mathematics, keys for development The image of Mathematics First of all, it was decided to publish a newsletter (Newsletter 2000), which would gather and widely redistribute information on initiatives taken by the international mathematical community for the preparation of WMY 2000. It then became necessary to tighten links with UNESCO and to register projects for the world mathematical year as they take shape all over the world. My report consists of four parts: Publication and distribution of "Newsletter 2000" Relations with UNESCO Projects registered to date Subsidiary activities 1. "Newsletter 2000"

20. Read This: A Mathematician Grappling With His Century The MAA Online book review column review of A Mathematician Grappling with His the famous Bourbaki group of mostly french mathematicians who had such a http://www.maa.org/reviews/grappling.html

Search MAA Online MAA Home Read This! The MAA Online book review column A Mathematician Grappling with His Century by Laurent Schwartz Reviewed by Robert Dobrow "Many people nowadays seem to consider scientists, mathematicians and others, like people uninterested in moral questions, locked away in their ivory towers and indifferent to the outside world," writes Laurent Schwartz, winner of the Fields Medal in 1950, in his autobiography A Mathematician Grappling with His Century What Schwartz grappled with was the social and political issues that wracked France, Europe and the world in the mid-20th century. Chapter titles of this remarkable story include Trotskyist, The War against the Jews, Algerian Involvement, For an Independent Viet Nam, The Distant War in Afghanistan. The reader will find few theorems in this book. Except for a brief discussion on Schwartz's most important mathematical contribution, the concept of distributions, which generalized the notion of function and allowed for a considerable broadening of calculus, most of the math in this book is written from a historical perspective and largely accessible to non-mathematical readers. As Schwartz writes, mathematics "concerns only about 15% of the volume." What concerns the rest is Schwartz's great passion besides mathematics: his devotion to the struggle for oppressed people and for human rights.

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