Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician and statesman, born in Paris in 1863, who studied at the École Normale Supérieure and taught at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France. His research on differential equations, including the transcendents now named for him, also led him to early work on the theory of flight. He entered politics in 1906 and served as Prime Minister of the French Third Republic in 1917 and again in 1925, and held the war ministry in the 1920s.
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was a French mathematician and statesman
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He served twice as prime-minister of France.
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He was a student of Henri Poincaré, Paul Painlevé, Charles Hermite and Émile Picard.
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