MOST UNPRACTICAL MAN.
MATHEMATICIAN’S WORRIES. M. Paiuleve, President of the French Chamber of Deputies, 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 home 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 Ambassador in Brussels. But, forgetting that time and train wait for no man, M. Painleve arrived at the Gare du Nord late enough to miss the Brussels express. He then decided 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 I.
General February so hampered M. rainleve’s progress that at Soissons his car was axle-deep in snow, and Brussels still 160 miles away. M. Painleve—always the diplomat and mathematician —telegi-aphed his excuses to the Royal party.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19461, 22 April 1925, Page 8
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186MOST UNPRACTICAL MAN. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19461, 22 April 1925, Page 8
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