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Simeon Denis Poisson

Biography MathSciNet

Ph.D. École Polytechnique $France$

Dissertation:

Advisor: Joseph Lagrange

Student(s):
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Michel Chasles	École Polytechnique	1814	19709
Gustav Dirichlet	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	1827	32759
Joseph Liouville		1835	1914

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