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...As 18th-century mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange observed, however, applications of both algebra and geometry were “limited” until French thinker René Descartes (1596-1650) fused the two into analytic...
...Books-wise, I am relishing Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March, a saga of fathers and sons set in the Austro-Hungarian empire....
...The London gallery Modern Art now represents the Dutch artist René Daniëls and will mount an exhibition of his works on paper made between 1976 and 1987, their first UK showing (January 12-March 11, price...
...It was planted at the 1984 biennale by René Block, dealer to artist Joseph Beuys, as part of Beuys’ “7000 Oaks” project, launched at the 1982 documenta exhibition in Kassel....
...A novel this playful — like an episode of The Twilight Zone co-written by René Descartes and Mel Brooks — would be an unusual contender for the resolutely sober Booker Prize....
...Chateaubriand and Joseph de Maistre, a monarchist and anti-Enlightenment thinker who makes an appearance in anéantir....
...The film she showed me across the table was shot with a tight group of her frequent collaborators: the film-makers Lola Raban-Oliva and Jean-René Étienne and the artist, musician and model Eliza Douglas,...
...Only tenor Joseph Calleja in Malta has an illuminated fish tank next to his piano....
...René himself was an eternally future-facing man....
...“It’s all just talk,” said Jaqueline Joseph, a 32-year-old mother, as she sold second-hand clothes from a pavement in Port-au-Prince. “I have no faith in politicians any more....
...“A lot of brands became dependent on it,” says René Weber, analyst at private bank Vontobel. “And a lot of people did not invest in production. You need a lot to do this from scratch....
...René van Wyk, an Absa board member and former South African Reserve Bank official, will serve as interim chief until a replacement is found, said the lender, which has operations in 10 other African markets...
...Several other high-priced items in the collection, such as a composition by Franz Klein and Joseph Stella, fell below their lowest estimates....
...On landing in New York on his first trip to the US in 1974, the German artist Joseph Beuys was rolled up head to toe in a felt blanket....
...Elsewhere, two copies of François-René de Chateaubriand’s novella Atala (1801), based loosely on the writer’s expedition to North America, are opened to reveal illustrations by Gustave Doré....
...“His way of speaking reminds me of Joseph Goebbels.” He says the rot set in with the departure of Lucke and the liberals....
...Galerie René Drouin....
...In the title role, René Pape at least gets to pace around in circles, and to sing with a refinement slightly at odds with his character’s nihilism....
...The timbre of Joseph Calleja’s plangent tenor is highly distinctive yet underscores the depths of Macduff’s despair in lamenting the loss of wife and children to Macbeth’s despotic reign....
...Rene Bruelhart, the Swiss lawyer who heads the AIF, was on Thursday attending a plenary meeting in Peru of the international Egmont Group that brings together financial intelligence units fighting money...
...But the life and untimely death of French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, carried the longitude tragedy on to the continent of North America....
...Guigal also reported strong demand for white St-Joseph, much more so than for white Crozes Hermitage, the equivalent of St-Joseph in the other important cluster of vineyards in the northern Rhône, around...
...Joseph Kabila has refused to negotiate with M23....
...The bank’s chief financial officer, Rene F. Jones, said on Monday that it was still trying to calculate the ratio, saying the bank had “lots of M.B.A.’s trying to figure out how the rule works.”...
...Ornamental flourishes are being added for the occasion by Joseph Bennett, a film production designer. Gloriana was designed anew but to an old pattern....
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