Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Paris
One of the nicest things about France is that streets are named after writers, painters, mathematicians, scientists, and other people of accomplishment. Here's a picture of a street sign in the 14th arrondissement, showing a street named after Étienne Bezout (1730-1783).
I became interested in Bezout a few years ago when I wrote an article entitled "Origins of the Analysis of the Euclidean Algorithm" for Historia Mathematica. One of Bezout's accomplishments was his textbook, Cours de Mathématiques à l'Usage des Gardes du Pavillon et de la Marine, which went through dozens of editions, first under Bezout, and later, at the hands of others. Supposedly even Napoleon I learned mathematics from Bezout's book.
Here are a few more:
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Place Paul Painleve
Rue Lagrange
Rue Monge
Rue Laplace
Rue Euler
And so on... Mathematicians with Paris streets named after them
Do they have a Rue Dembski?
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