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  • ...e]], where they continued their work in collaboration with the British and French. They were again compelled to evacuate after the [[fall of France]] in June ...nce in 1939 during [[World War II]], "was entirely and literally based" on French General Marcel Givièrge's 1925 book, ''Cours de cryptographie'' (Course of ...
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  • ...lermont-Ferrand]], [[France]] – August 19, 1662, in [[Paris]]) was a French [[mathematician]], [[physicist]], and [[religion|religious]] [[philosopher] ...to sit in as a silent on-looker at the gatherings of some of the greatest mathematicians and scientists in Europe—such as [[Gilles de Roberval|Roberval]], [[Desargu ...
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  • The "H" stands for [[Otto Hölder]], who first proved in 1882 what mathematicians now think of as the connection between [[Divergent series#Abelian means|Abe ...ich, p.48, for a different translation from the original [[French language|French]]; the tone remains the same.</ref> ...
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  • ...application/pdf, 237913 bytes -->}}</ref> and in 1727, he entered the ''[[French Academy of Sciences|Paris Academy]] Prize Problem'' competition, where the ...der Nevsky Lavra]]). His eulogy was written for the French Academy by the French mathematician and philosopher [[Marquis de Condorcet]], and an account of h ...
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  • ...er was the mathematician [[Max Noether]]. Emmy originally planned to teach French and English after passing the required examinations, but instead studied ma ...[plenary session|plenary]] address at the 1932 [[International Congress of Mathematicians]] in [[Zürich]], her algebraic acumen was recognized around the world. The ...
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  • ...discipline—studies groups in their own right.{{cref|a}} To explore groups, mathematicians have devised [[Glossary of group theory|various notions]] to break groups i ...ions of [[polynomial equation]]s of degree higher than 4. The 19th-century French mathematician [[Évariste Galois]], extending prior work of [[Paolo Ruffini] ...
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