Charles Auguste Briot
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Charles Auguste Briot was a French mathematician who worked on elliptic function
Elliptic function
In complex analysis, an elliptic function is a function defined on the complex plane that is periodic in two directions and at the same time is meromorphic...

s. The Académie des Sciences awarded him the Poncelet Prize
Poncelet Prize
The Poncelet Prize is awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. The prize was established in 1868 by the widow of General Jean-Victor Poncelet for the advancement of the sciences. It was in the amount of 2,000 francs , mostly for the work in applied mathematics...

in 1882.
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