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OF the three eminent mathematicians who dominated French science at the beginning of this century, Paul Appell, who died on Oct. 23, aged seventy-five years, will pass down to posterity as an analyst of genius, whose personal charm was equal to the excellence of his teaching. Together with Henri Poincaré, whose mathematical achievements have still to find their equal, and Emile Picard, whom destiny has now left alone to represent the glory of his generation, Paul Appell has laid the foundations upon which a succession of research students and mathematicians have built. Indeed, his masterly “Traité de Mécanique Rationnelle” (1893–1896) maintains its position as a standard text, side by side with the “Traité d'Analyse” of Picard, and the “Méthodes Nouvelles de la Mécanique Céleste” of Poincaré.
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GREENWOOD, T. Prof. Paul Appell. Nature 126, 924–925 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126924a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/126924a0