Marquis de Condorcet

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French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)

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Fashionable French philosophers like his father’s friend the Marquis de Condorcet blamed the selfishness of the rich. Source: Internet

Both potentially violate Condorcet’s Theorem—as in the philosopher-mathematician the Marquis de Condorcet, who in 1785 said in part that an election should be won by a candidate who’d beat all the other candidates head-to-head. Source: Internet

One of the first known uses of the symbol in mathematics is by Marquis de Condorcet from 1770, who used it for partial differences. Source: Internet

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