Olinde Rodrigues

Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues (6 October 1795 – 17 December 1851), more commonly known as Olinde Rodrigues, was a French banker, mathematician, and social reformer. In mathematics Rodrigues is remembered for Rodrigues' rotation formula for vectors, the Rodrigues formula about series of orthogonal polynomials and the Euler–Rodrigues parameters.

Biography

Rodrigues was born into a well-to-do Sephardi Jewish family in Bordeaux. He was awarded a doctorate in mathematics on 28 June 1815 by the University of Paris. His dissertation contains the result now called Rodrigues' formula.

After graduation, Rodrigues became a banker. A close associate of the Comte de Saint-Simon, Rodrigues continued, after Saint-Simon's death in 1825, to champion the older man's socialist ideals, a school of thought that came to be known as Saint-Simonianism. During this period, Rodrigues published writings on politics, social reform, and banking.

In 1840 he published a result on transformation groups, which applied Leonhard Euler's four squares formula, a precursor to the quaternions of William Rowan Hamilton, to the problem of representing rotations in space.
In 1846 Arthur Cayley acknowledged Arthur Cayley (1846) "Sur Quelques Proprietes des Determinants Gauches", Crelle's Journal 32: 119–23, and ''Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley'', volume 1, page 335 Euler's and Rodrigues' priority describing orthogonal transformations.

Rodrigues is credited as originating the idea of the artist as an avant-garde.

Publications

* ''Mouvement de rotation d'un corps de révolution pesant'', Paris, 1815
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*''De l'attraction des sphéroïdes'', 1815
* ''Théorie de la caisse hypothécaire, ou Examen du sort des emprunteurs, des porteurs d'obligations et des actionnaires de cet établissement'', 1820
* ''Appel : religion saint-simonienne'', 1831
* ''L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel: Dialogue'', 1825
* ''Réunion générale de la famille : séances des 19 et 21 novembre'', 1831
* ''Son premier écrit / Saint-Simon'', 1832
* ''Le disciple de Saint-Simon aux Saint-Simoniens et au public'', 1832
* ''Aux saint-simoniens, 13 février 1832 : bases de la loi morale proposées à l'acceptation des femmes'', 1832
* ''Olinde Rodrigues à M. Michel Chevalier, rédacteur du "Globe" : religion saint-simonienne'', 1832
* ''De l'organisation des banques à propos du projet de loi sur la Banque de France'', 1840
* ''Des lois géométriques qui régissent les déplacements d'un système solide dans l'espace: et de la variation des coordonnées provenant de ces déplacements considérés indépendamment des causes qui peuvent les produire'', 1840
* ''Les Peuples et les diplomates. La Paix ou la guerre'', 1840
* ''Œuvres de Saint-Simon'', 1841
* ''Poésies sociales des ouvriers, réunies et publiées par Olinde Rodrigues'', 1841
* ''Théorie des banques'', 1848
* ''De l'Organisation du suffrage universel, proposition d'un nouveau mode électoral par Olinde Rodrigues'', 1848
* ''Organisation du travail, association du travail et du capital'', 1848
* ''Organisation du travail, bases de l'organisation des banques'', 1848

See also

* Euler–Rodrigues formula
* Spherical harmonics

References

External links

Olinde Rodrigues sur Le Maitron

Olinde Rodrigues sur Jewish Encyclopedia

Bibliography

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* Louis Gabriel Michaud (1863) ''Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne''
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* Jeremy J. Gray (1980) ''Olinde Rodrigues' paper of 1840 on Transformation Groups'', Archive for History of Exact Sciences 21(4): 375–385, .

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1795 births
1851 deaths
Businesspeople from Bordeaux
Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
French bankers
19th-century French Sephardi Jews
Scientists from Bordeaux
Historical treatment of quaternions
19th-century French mathematicians
Saint-Simonists
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
British social reformers
Jewish socialists
French people of Portuguese descent