Charles Bossut (11 August 1730 – 14 January 1814) was a French
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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and ''confrère'' of the
Encyclopaedists. He was born at
Tartaras,
Loire
The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône ...
, and died in
Paris
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.
Works
* ''Traité élémentaire d'hydrodynamique'' (1771) later reworked as ''Traité théorique et expérimental d'hydrodynamique'' (1786–87)
* ''Traité élémentaire de méchanique statique'' (1772)
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* ''Cours de mathématiques'' (1781)
* ''Histoire générale des mathématiques'' (1810)
Did write parts of the
Encyclopédie
''Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' (English: ''Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts''), better known as ''Encyclopédie'', was a general encyclopedia publis ...
on mathematics with
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''Encyclopédie ...
.
1768 member of
Académie des sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the ...
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1730 births
1814 deaths
People from Loire (department)
18th-century French mathematicians
19th-century French mathematicians
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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