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  2. Jean Leray - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Chantenay-sur-Loire (today part of Nantes ). He studied at École Normale Supérieure from 1926 to 1929. He received his Ph.D. in 1933. In 1934 Leray published an important paper that founded the study of weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations. [ 2] In the same year, he and Juliusz Schauder discovered [ 3] a topological ...

  3. List of Huguenots - Wikipedia

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    Elias Palairet (1713–1765), brother of Jean Palairet, passtor successively at the French church at Greenwich, Saint John's Church, Spitalfields, and the Dutch chapel at Saint James's, Westminster, classical and Biblical philologist. [317] Félix Pécaut (1828–1898), pastor and educator. [603] Simon Pelloutier (1694–1757), French pastor in ...

  4. Jean le Rond d'Alembert - Wikipedia

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    Days after birth his mother left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church. According to custom, he was named after the patron saint of the church. D'Alembert was placed in an orphanage for foundling children, but his father found him and placed him with the wife of a glazier , Madame Rousseau, with whom he lived for nearly 50 ...

  5. Category:French mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    Élisabeth Gassiat. Jean Ginibre. Annibale Giordano. Jean-Yves Girard. Jean Giraud (mathematician) Georges Glaeser. Roland Glowinski. Roger Godement. Gaston Albert Gohierre de Longchamps.

  6. Contributions of Leonhard Euler to mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Contributions of Leonhard Euler to mathematics. The 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) is among the most prolific and successful mathematicians in the history of the field. His seminal work had a profound impact in numerous areas of mathematics and he is widely credited for introducing and popularizing modern notation ...

  7. Qwartz Electronic Music Awards - Wikipedia

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    The Qwartz Electronic Music Awards recognize new and electronic music with awards and grants in music and technologies categories. An annual event takes place in Paris. The Qwartz Awards are presided by the pioneer Pierre Henry.

  8. Didier Diderot - Wikipedia

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    Didier Diderot married on 19 January 1712 in Chassigny Angélique Vigneron (12 October 1677 – 1 October 1748). [4] [5] [6] She was the daughter of the tanner, tanneur François Vigneron (died in 1679) and Jeanne Aramite Humblot (died in 1710) from Langres. Didier Diderot was close to the Jansenism. Later they had three sons and four daughters ...

  9. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu - Wikipedia

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    Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ syʁ ʁiʃ(ə)ljø]) is a city in eastern Montérégie in the Canadian province of Quebec, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Montreal, located roughly halfway between Montreal and the Canada–United States border with the state of Vermont.