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Created page with "== Early Life and Education == Siméon Denis Poisson was born on June 21, 1781, in Pithiviers, France. His father, a former soldier, encouraged him to pursue a career in medicine, but Poisson's interests lay in mathematics. At the age of 17, he enrolled at the École Polytechnique in Paris, where he studied under prominent mathematicians such as Lagrange and Laplace. His exceptional talent was recognized early on, and h..."