Nguyen Dinh Ngoc
Vietnamese mathematician and Army officer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nguyen Dinh Ngoc was a Vietnamese Army intelligence officer, later a general, and a mathematician. Biography Nguyễn Đình Ngọc was born in Phượng Dực commune, Phú Xuyên District, Hanoi, Vietnam. In 1953, he joined the Intelligence Service and served in the Vietminh Army in the field of public security. He was then assigned to Saigon to work as a spy for North Vietnam . In 1955, he moved to France to complete his studies after being awarded a scholarship. He attended the University of Paris, from which he graduated with three engineering degrees: Hydrology and Meteorology, Shipbuilding and Telecommunications. Additionally, he earned a Ph.D. in Geography and in Mathematics, under the supervision of Charles Ehresmann, with a thesis entitled "Sur les espaces fibres et les prolongements" at the Paris-Sorbonne University in 1963.
