Why were the French so prevalent in discovery of Math?

Galois

Pascal - probability

Descartes

Laplace

Fourier - signal analysis

The French were flying high and eary in the discovery of flight. The French are leaders in Nuclear even today.

Random genetics? Or Is there something about the French mentality, the food, the drink... the culture... that opened them to the creativity that inspired such discovery?

To come up with even something like complex numbers, imaginary numbers... is quite imaginative, oui? But of course... that was discovered by Italian and Swiss! C'est la vie

Why were the French so prevalent in discovery of Math?
Why were the French so prevalent in discovery of Math?
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