Joseph Alfred Serret (; August 30, 1819 – March 2, 1885) 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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who was born in
Paris
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,
France
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, and died in
Versailles
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, France.
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Frenet–Serret formulas
In differential geometry, the Frenet–Serret formulas describe the kinematic properties of a particle moving along a differentiable curve in three-dimensional Euclidean space \mathbb^, or the geometric properties of the curve itself irrespective ...
Books by J. A. Serret
Traité de trigonométrie(Gautier-Villars, 1880)
Cours de calcul differentiel et integral t. 1(Gauthier-Villars, 1900)
Cours de calcul differentiel et integral t. 2(Gauthier-Villars, 1900)
Cours d'algèbre supérieure. Tome I(Gauthier-Villars, 1877)
Cours d'algèbre supérieure. Tome II(Gauthier-Villars, 1879)
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1819 births
1885 deaths
19th-century French mathematicians
École Polytechnique alumni
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Differential geometers
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