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Lectiones habitae in scholiis publicis academiae Cantabrigiensis AD 1664 by Isaac Barrow.

• ... that mathematician and theologian Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) was known for his courage, and that he once saved the ship he was upon from capture by pirates?

• ... that mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions championed the application of mathematics in industry, with a particular involvement in the French space program, as well as in domains such as energy and the environment, and that he was the director of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) from 1984 to 1992?