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- From: pj@linz.ensmp.fr (Pierre JOUVELOT <jouvelot@cri.ensmp.fr>)
- Subject: Lichtenberg?
- Message-ID: <PJ.92Nov18124041@linz.ensmp.fr>
- Sender: jouvelot@ensmp.fr (Pierre JOUVELOT)
- Organization: Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
- Date: 18 Nov 92 12:40:41
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- Lichtenberg is an 18th century German philosopher and mathematician who
- published a somewhat famed book of aphorisms (he is the inventor of the
- "edgeless knife missing its hand"). I'm wondering what he did in the
- field of mathematics?
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- Thanks to answer by e-mail,
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- Pierre
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