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of de Prony (Bradley 1998), has captured the wide variety of Dupin’s activities, including a comprehensive bibliography of his many writings. May some of his contemporary graduates of the Ecole Polytechnique receive such detailed attention, thereby increasing our understanding of this remarkably fruitful and important period in the history of French science and technology.
—Ivor Grattan-Guinness