Apple-II computer on display at the private Musée Bolo from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne.

In 1828, he attempted the entrance examination for the École Polytechnique, the most prestigious institution for mathematics in France at the time, without the usual preparation in mathematics, and failed for lack of explanations on the oral examination.

In 1816 he became a tutor at the École Polytechnique, where he did experiments on friction and hydraulics.

He received a Docteur honoris causa from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on March 31, 2007.

KTH was founded in 1827 under the name Technological Institute ( Teknologiska institutet ), following the establishment of polytechnical schools in many European countries the early years of the 19th century, often based on the model of École Polytechnique in Paris in 1794.

The École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montreal Massacre, occurred on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Upon his return to France, he as appointed as the Director of the Ecole Polytechnique, but early in 1798 he was sent to Italy on a mission that ended in the establishment, of the short-lived Roman Republic.

In February 2001 Fravia made a conference at the École Polytechnique in Paris about The art of information searching on today's Internet.

In March 2002 elego also took over the repository of another active Modula-3 distribution, PM3, till then maintained at the École Polytechnique de Montréal but which later continued by the work on HM3 improved over the years later until it was obsoleted.

Blue Brain, a project founded by Henry Markram from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, aims to construct a biophysically detailed simulation of a cortical column on the Blue Gene supercomputer.

After several months of planning, Lépine entered the École Polytechnique de Montréal, on the afternoon of December 6, 1989.

After the École Polytechnique massacre on December 6, 1989, where 14 women were killed by an anti-feminist, a movement appeared in Canada of men wearing the white ribbon to signify opposition to violence against women.

An originality of Polytechnique is that in addition to full-time teaching staff ( exercice complet ), who do research at the École in addition to a full teaching service, there are partial-time teaching staff ( exercice incomplet ) who do not do research on behalf of the École and carry only a partial teaching load.

The reason for this is that the generic education given at Polytechnique is more focused on developing thinking skills than preparing for the transition to an actual engineering occupation, which requires further technical education.

The next stepping stone for Polytechnique graduates, or polytechniciens, on this path is to enter one of four technical civil service training schools: the École des Mines, the École des Ponts et Chaussées, the ENST, or the ENSAE, thus joining one of the civil service bodies known as the grands corps techniques de l ' État.

Polytechnique organizes various Master's programs, by itself or in association with other schools and universities ( in the Paris region, École Normale Supérieure, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris VI, École Supérieure d ' Électricité ( Supélec ), other member institutions of ParisTech, Toulouse area and foreign partner universities ) on a wide variety of topics.

* 1989-École Polytechnique massacre on December 6.

He was appointed full professor of Spatial Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on 28 March 2007.

Deslandres ' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career.

Rising to the rank of captain in the engineers, he became increasingly interested in physics and, in 1881, resigned his commission to join Alfred Cornu's laboratory at the École Polytechnique, working on spectroscopy.

It was modeled on the École Polytechnique founded by Lazare Carnot and Gaspard Monge, but was much more modest in its beginnings, mainly because it had not been supported by the state.

He remained at the École Polytechnique until his retirement in 1959, with a gap during World War II after his 1940 firing because of the Vichy Statute on Jews.

The Bastille Day Military Parade opens with cadets from the École Polytechnique, Saint-Cyr, École Navale, and so forth, then other infantry troops, then motorized troops ; aircraft of the Patrouille de France aerobatics team fly above.

Image: Polytechnique 1er carre Bastille Day 2008. jpg | The cadets of Polytechnique in the Bastille Day Military Parade

While French students stay under military status during their studies at Polytechnique, and participate in a variety of ceremonies and other military events, for example national ceremonies, such as those of Bastille Day or anniversaries of the armistices of the World Wars, they do not undergo military training per se after having completed their service in the first year.

The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women is a day commemorated in Canada each December 6, the anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique Massacre, in which fourteen women were singled out for their gender and murdered.

A graduate of the École Polytechnique, which he left in 1812 for the Military School at Metz, he was later a professor at the Sorbonne and at the Collège de France.

He was admitted to the École Polytechnique ( the French Military Academy ) at the age of nineteen.

After the death of his wife in July 1803, Ampère moved to Paris, where he began a tutoring post at the new École Polytechnique in 1804.

The Polytechnique in Montreal is also offering a bachelors's degree in biomedical engineering.

* 1989 – The École Polytechnique Massacre ( or Montreal Massacre ): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

A couple of days later, Galois made his second and last attempt to enter the Polytechnique, and failed yet again.

Having been denied admission to the Polytechnique, Galois took the Baccalaureate examinations in order to enter the École Normale.

While their counterparts at Polytechnique were making history in the streets during les Trois Glorieuses, Galois and all the other students at the École Normale were locked in by the school's director.

Mimault became unnerved because of the decision, and after an incident where he shot at and wounded two students of the École Polytechnique ( charges for which were dropped ), he demanded a special act to prolong the duration of his patents, 100, 000 Francs, and election to the Légion d ' honneur.

Eiffel had hoped to enter the École Polytechnique, but his tutors decided that his performance was not good enough, and instead he qualified for entry to the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris, which offered a rather more vocational training.

In 1838 he succeeded Dulong as Directeur des études ( director of studies ) in the École Polytechnique.

In 1794, when Germain was 18, the École Polytechnique opened.

** École Polytechnique Massacre ( or Montreal Massacre ): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

Image: CRAY X-MP IMG 9135. jpg | Cray-XMP48 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, working at the École Polytechnique in Paris, recommended the machine for use as a teaching aid, and thus it came to the attention of Léon Foucault.

Showing decided military tastes, François Arago was sent to the municipal college of Perpignan, where he began to study mathematics in preparation for the entrance examination of the École Polytechnique.

Towards the close of 1803 Arago entered the École Polytechnique, Paris, but apparently found the professors there incapable of imparting knowledge or maintaining discipline.

Later, in the care of the Abbot of Dumonteil he began his education in Paris, finally entering the École Polytechnique in 1798.

In 1802, he was appointed demonstrator to A. F. Fourcroy at the École Polytechnique, where in ( 1809 ) he became professor of chemistry.