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THE Grand Prix des Sciences Mathematiques will be awarded in 1900 for an improvement, in any important point, of our knowledge of the number of classes of quadratic forms of two unknowns with entire coefficients; the Bordin Prize (3000 francs), for the development and improvement of the theory of surfaces applicable to the paraboloid of revolution; the Francœur Prize (1000 francs), for discoveries useful to the progress of pure or applied mathematics; the Poncelet Prize (2000 francs), for any similar work published during the last ten years.
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Prizes Proposed by the Paris Academy of Sciences for 1900 . Nature 61, 237 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061237a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/061237a0