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François Le Lionnais
(3 Oct 1901 - 13 Mar 1984)
French chemical engineer, mathematician and writer who was a polymath also known as a chess enthusiast and a co-founder of the Oulipo literary movement. He applied his knowledge of science in various capacities including for UNESCO, Musées Nationaux de France, the French national public broadcasting, and contributing to or editing several publications on contemporary mathematical thought.
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Science Quotes by François Le Lionnais (1 quote)
Who has not be amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising again from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
— François Le Lionnais
In François Le Lionnais (ed.), Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Mathematics in the Arts and Sciences (1971), Vol. 2, 126.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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