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Record 1 1996-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
DEF

a group, party, or association of three.

CONT

Around the beginning of the seventeenth century several mathematicians independently attempted to solve this problem [of squaring the hyperbola], notably Pierre de Fermat and René Descartes, who, together with Blaise Pascal, formed the great French triumvirate of mathematicians in the years just before the invention of calculus.

CONT

a world-famed triumvirate of painters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
DEF

Association de trois personnes qui exercent un pouvoir, une influence.

Spanish

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