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  2. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu - Wikipedia

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    Jussieu was born in Lyon, France, in 1748, as one of 10 children, to Christophle de Jussieu, an amateur botanist. [1] His father's three younger brothers were also botanists. He went to Paris in 1765 to be with his uncle Bernard and to study medicine, graduating with a doctorate in 1770, with a thesis on animal and vegetable physiology. [2]

  3. Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche

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    The IMJ-PRG is the largest research unit linked to the doctoral school of mathematical sciences of Paris center (École doctorale de sciences mathématiques de Paris-Centre). It has its own journal, the Journal de l'institut de mathématiques de Jussieu, published by Cambridge University Press and covering all areas of fundamental mathematics. [2]

  4. Raymond L. Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Raymond Lewis Johnson (born 1943) is an American mathematician, currently a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park [1] and an adjunct professor of mathematics at Rice University. [2] He was the first African-American student at Rice University, and the first African-American mathematics professor at the University of ...

  5. Paris Institute of Statistics - Wikipedia

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    The ISUP is the oldest training statistics in France: it was founded in 1922 (by the mathematician Émile Borel) 20 years before the ENSAE and 72 years before the ENSAI. At the end of the Great War, Émile Borel, one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, was appointed to the Chair of Probability and Mathematical Physics at the University ...

  6. Sorbonne Faculty of Science and Engineering - Wikipedia

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    The Jussieu Campus is built on the site of what was once the Abbaye Saint-Victor, founded in 1113 by philosopher and theologian William of Champeaux.Closed in 1790 and destroyed in 1811, all that remains of the Abbey today are a few foundations still visible beneath the Esclangon building, used as a cellar when the Halle Aux Vins of Paris was set up there between 1813 and 1955.

  7. Marie-France Vignéras - Wikipedia

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    Marie-France Vignéras (born 1946) is a French mathematician. She is a Professor Emeritus of the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris. [1] She is known for her proof published in 1980 of the existence of isospectral non-isometric Riemann surfaces. [2] [3] [4] Such surfaces show that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum.

  8. De Jussieu family - Wikipedia

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    He died in Paris on 11 April 1779. [1] Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836), nephew of the three preceding, was born in Lyon on 12 April 1748. Called to Paris by his uncle Bernard, and carefully trained by him for the pursuits of medicine and botany, he largely profited by the opportunities afforded him.

  9. Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler - Wikipedia

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    Anna Johnson was born on May 5, 1883, to Swedish immigrant parents in Calliope, Iowa in the United States. Her father, Andrew Gustav Johnson, was a furniture dealer and undertaker. Her mother, Amelia (née Friberg), was a homemaker. Both of Johnson's parents came from the parish of Lyrestad, in Västergötland, Sweden.