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He is the fifth French Abel winner since the award was created by Norway's government Paris: For Michel Talagrand, who won the Abel mathematics prize on Wednesday, maths provided a fun life free from ...

Yves Meyer, a French Jewish mathematician, won the Abel Prize on Tuesday for his work on the “wavelet theory,” which has been applied in data compression, noise reduction, medical imaging and digital ...

Henri Cartan, a mathematician known for meticulous proofs and for inspiring a revival of mathematics in France after World War II, died in Paris on Aug. 13. He was 104. His death was confirmed by the ...

Henri Cartan, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians in the last half of the 20th century, died Aug. 13 in Paris. He was 104. The cause of death was not reported. Almost all of Cartan’s career was ...

A French mathematician known for his pioneering work on a theory used for applications ranging from image compression to the detection of gravitational waves from the merging of black holes has earned ...

A well-known French mathematician who has given a free lecture to students in Gaza online has spoken of his delight at being part of a new programme aiming to ensure that education for Gazans ...

"One can consider the French revolution as the cradle of the systematic method in modern scientific endeavor," Professor Richard Courant, the eminent mathematician, told his Lowell House listeners ...

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet – or more simply Émilie du Châtelet – was born on December 17, 1706 in Paris, France into a family of lesser nobility. From a young age, ...