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Appell
Appell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Dave Appell (1922–2014), American arranger, producer, and musician *Olga Appell Olga Appell Avalos (born August 2, 1963, in Durango) is an American long-distance runner from Mexico, best known for winning the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. She ran at the 1992 Summer Olympi ... (born 1963), Mexican-American long-distance runner *Paul Émile Appell or M. P. Appell (1855–1930), French mathematician and rector of the University of Paris **Appell polynomials, a polynomial sequence named after Paul Appell **Appell's equation of motion, an alternative formulation of classical mechanics See also *Apel (other) *Appel (other) *Apple *Apple (other) {{surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Émile Appell
:''M. P. Appell is the same person: it stands for Monsieur Paul Appell''. Paul Émile Appell (27 September 1855 in Strasbourg – 24 October 1930 in Paris) was a French mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. Appell polynomials and Appell's equations of motion are named after him, as is rue Paul Appell in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and the minor planet 988 Appella. Life Paul Appell entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1873. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1892. In 1895, he became a Professor at the École Centrale Paris. Between 1903 and 1920 he was Dean of the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris, then Rector of the University of Paris from 1920 to 1925. Appell was the President of the Société astronomique de France (SAF), the French astronomical society, from 1919 to 1921. His daughter Marguerite Appell (1883–1969), who married the mathematician Émile Borel, is known as a novelist under her pen-name Camille Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |