Timeline for Famous mathematicians with background in arts/humanities/law etc
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 11:18 | comment | added | user9072 | @Alan, are you informed about the French higher eductations system (at Poinarés time)? It is not overly surpising that he was in the Corps des Mines. And most high-school math teachers are not research math types either. Shall we include all French math that attended the/a ENS because clearly they originally all wanted to become high-school teachers. And those at the Ecole polytchnique are actually soldiers. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 10:32 | comment | added | ADL | I've never thought of mining engineering being related to maths. Possibly the world's most famous mining engineer, Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, never struck me as the maths-ey type... | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 21:38 | comment | added | Slobodan Simić | Sorry, didn't realize that. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 21:05 | comment | added | user9072 | Engineering is excluded. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 20:41 | history | answered | Slobodan Simić | CC BY-SA 3.0 |