Blue Lizard wrote:
>> Descartes (thanks Internet ;) ).
>
> You would consider a *scientist*?!
During my studies, I learnt that he found the formulaes of light
reflexion and refraction ("Descartes laws"). Apparently, he was not bad
in mathematics, as in France, a lot of Universities have called
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:15, Blue Lizard wrote:
> > Descartes (thanks Internet ;) ).
>
> You would consider a *scientist*?!
He is considered to be the father of analytical geometry, thus a
mathematician.
regards
guran
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> Descartes (thanks Internet ;) ).
You would consider a *scientist*?!
Grégoire Colbert wrote:
> Hoyt wrote:
>
> [photos during install]
>
>> And I still think that the distros should be named after famous French
>> scientists and other technical types.
>
>
> Let me think...
> Eiffel is already the name of a language;
> Curie reminds of radioactivity;
> Poincaré
Hoyt wrote:
[photos during install]
> And I still think that the distros should be named after famous French
> scientists and other technical types.
Let me think...
Eiffel is already the name of a language;
Curie reminds of radioactivity;
Poincaré;
Cauchy (boring mathematics);
Urbain Le Verrie
On Sunday 02 September 2001 11:59 pm, guran methodically organized electrons
to state:
> On Monday 03 September 2001 04:23, Steve Fox wrote:
> > But how about doing something uber-cool and showing pictures of various
> > Open Source (and Free Software) developers as well?
>
> Very nice idea.
>
>
On Monday 03 September 2001 04:23, Steve Fox wrote:
> But how about doing something uber-cool and showing pictures of various
> Open Source (and Free Software) developers as well?
Very nice idea.
I just hope someone has the time to do it, and please nothing negative on
anyone choosen by someo
I remember back during the 8.0 beta days that someone here mentioned
showing Mandrake developers during the install install rather than than
the tractors. Everyone seemed to think it was a great idea, and so did
I.
But how about doing something uber-cool and showing pictures of various
Open Sourc
