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• ... 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 ( 1928 – 17 May 2001) 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?
• ... that wealthy Venetian polymath Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764) was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1736, and that while in London he became embroiled in a lively bisexual love-triangle with the politician John Hervey and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; and that Algarotti left England for Italy, where he finished Neutonianismo per le dame ("Newtonism for Ladies", 1737), a work written for women about Isaac Newton's work on optics, and that Algarotti dedicated Neutonianismo per le dame to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle?