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unusual facts about Institut Henri Poincaré



Daina Taimina

Her artwork is in the collections of several private collectors, colleges and universities, and has been included in the American Mathematical Model Collection of the Smithsonian Museum, Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum, and Institut Henri Poincaré.

Edmond James de Rothschild

Edmond took little active part in banking but pursued artistic and philanthropic interests, helping to found scientific research institutions such as the Institut Henri Poincaré, the Institut de Biologie physico-chimique, the pre-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Casa Velázquez in Madrid, and the French Institute in London.

Michel Loève

Having survived the Holocaust, after the liberation became between 1944–1946 chief of researches at the Institut Henri Poincaré at Paris University, then until 1948 worked at the University of London.


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