Subject: Re: [HM] Prize problems
From: June Barrow-Green (J.E.Barrow-Green@open.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 05:59:22 EDT
> When I was researching in the archives of the Paris Academy of
> Sciences back in the 1970s, I saw a published list of all the
> 18th- and 19th-century Paris Academy/Institut prize questions
> and winners, but I can't recall the reference. I vaguely
> remember that it was in a late 19th-early 20th-century book
> about the Academy.
>
> Craig B. Waff
> Encyclopedia Americana
>
Maybe it was one of these books that you saw:
MAINDRON Ernest
Les fondations de prix \a l'Acad/emie des Sciences. Les laur/eats de
l'Acad/emie, 1714-1880. Paris, 1881.
GAUJA Pierre
Les fondations de l'Acad/emie des sciences (1881-1915) Avec une
pr/eface par MM. A. Lacroix et /Emile Picard.
Hendaye, (Basses-Pyr/en/ees) Impr. de l'Observatoire d'Abbadia, 1917.
June Barrow-Green
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