1. Isaac Mathieu Weill was a French mathematician and principal of the College Chaptal.
11 Facts About Mathieu Weill
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Mathieu Weill was born to a Jewish family in Haguenau, the son of Valentine and Isidore Weill, a mathematics teacher.
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Mathieu Weill was educated in the lyceums of Burg and Strasburg, and was admitted to the Ecole Polytechnique in 1870.
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Mathieu Weill received a degree in mathematics in November 1872, and a degree in physical sciences in November 1876.
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Meanwhile, Weill began studies at the military school in Fontainebleau in 1872.
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Mathieu Weill attained the rank of lieutenant of artillery, but resigned in April 1877.
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Mathieu Weill married Delphine Levi in 1878, with whom he had four children.
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Mathieu Weill was appointed professor of mathematics in 1881, and in October 1898 the school's principal.
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Mathieu Weill was appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honour on 28 February 1904.
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Mathieu Weill published several essays in French mathematical journals, including the Nouvelles Annales de Mathematiques and the Bulletin de la Societe Mathematique de France.
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Mathieu Weill was the author of "Cours de Geometrie Analytique" and of "Precis d'Arithmetique, de Geometrie, d'Algebre, de Trigonometrie," in four volumes.