MOST UNPRACTICAL MAN.
MATHEMATICIAN’S WORE IBS M. Painleve, President of the French Chamber of is one. of the greatest mathematicians in Europe. He is also one of the most unpractical of men. Recently he gave an official reception chez lui. He invited so many people to his home that the house could only hold half of them ; the other half found themselves out in the cold rain. On another day, M. Painleve was to have been a principal guest at a dinner in honour of . the King and Queen of the Belgians given by the French Amnbssador in Brussels. But, forgetting that time and train would wait for no man, M. Painleve arrived at flic Gore clu Nord late enough to miss the Brussels express. He then derided to travel by motor, but he miscalculated the activities of General February—a very formidable enemy of a greater man than M. Painleve —even Napoleon 1. General February so hampered M. Painleve’s progress that at Soissons his ear was axle-deep in snow, and Brussels still 160 miles away. M. Rainleve —always the diplomat and mathematician —telegraphed his excuses, to the Royal party.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 April 1925, Page 5
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189MOST UNPRACTICAL MAN. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 April 1925, Page 5
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