12 Facts About Paul Tannery

Paul Tannery was a French mathematician and historian of mathematics.

Paul Tannery was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathematiques he contributed an historical chapter.

Paul Tannery was born in Mantes-la-Jolie on 20 December 1843, to a deeply Catholic family.

Paul Tannery attended private school in Mantes, followed by the Lycees in Le Mans and Caen.

Paul Tannery then entered the Ecole Polytechnique, on whose entrance exam he excelled.

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Paul Tannery's curriculum included mathematics, the sciences, and the classics, all of which would be represented in his future academic work.

Biographies of Paul Tannery describe him as an ardent patriot and claim that he never fully accepted the humiliating Treaty of Frankfurt.

Paul Tannery moved several times with his career in the tobacco industry: to Perigord in 1872, to Bordeaux in 1874, to Le Havre in 1877, and to Paris in 1883.

Bordeaux had something of an intellectual atmosphere, and though Paul Tannery moved to Le Havre at his own request, he would directly request the move to Paris, where his research and academic pursuits would be able to flourish.

In 1888, Paul Tannery moved back to Bordeaux, where he studied Greek astronomy and directed the tobacco factory.

Paul Tannery was considered something of a shoo-in; he even began writing his inaugural lecture.

Paul Tannery died soon thereafter, on 27 November 1904, in Pantin, just outside Paris.