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AT the recent annual meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, the following prizes were announced for the year 1896. In Mathematics the subjects proposed are: the Grand prize for an important improvement in the algebraic theory of groups of substitutions between n letters; the Bordin prize (3000 fr.) for an important advance in the theory of geodesic lines; the Francœur prize (1000 fr.) and the Poncelet prize (2000 fr.) will be awarded for discoveries useful in pure and applied mathematics. In Mechanics, the extraordinary prize of 6000 fr. will be given as a reward for an invention tending to increase the efficiency of the French naval forces, the Montyon for the improvement or invention of instruments useful to the progress of agriculture or the mechanical arts, and the Plumey prize (2500 fr.) for improvements in steam engines or any invention contributing to the progress of steam navigation.
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Prize Subjects of the Paris Academy of Sciences. Nature 53, 230 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053230b0
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