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Nearly four hundred high school students from the Paris, Créteil and Versailles academies took part in the second conference-debate of the 6ᵉ edition of the "Des académiciens en Sorbonne" program, organized in the prestigious setting of the Sorbonne's Grand Amphithéâ

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Everything you'd ever want to know, and more, about the Fourier transform.

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A few weeks before the Paris-Saclay Summit 2026, of which the Académie des sciences is a partner, "Le Point" went to meet Françoise Combes, president of the prestigious institution.

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