Paul Tannery

French mathematician (1843–1904).

Born December 20th, 1843 in Mantes-sur-Seine.

Died November 27th, 1904 at 60 years old in Pantin.

Occupations
civil servant, engineer, hellenist, historian, historian of mathematics, mathematician, philosophy historian, translator
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde