C. V. Mourey (1791? – 1830?) was a French
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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who wrote a work of 100 pages titled ''La vraie théorie des quantités négatives et des quantités prétendues imaginaires (The true theory of negative quantities and of alleged imaginary quantities)'', published in Paris in 1828 and reedited in 1861, in which he gave a systematic presentation of
vector theory. He seems to be the first mathematician to state the necessity of specifying the conditions of equality between vectors.
Mourey also stated that there exists a more general
algebra
Algebra () is one of the broad areas of mathematics. Roughly speaking, algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols in formulas; it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathematics.
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but, unfortunately, no other writings by him have survived.
Nothing is known about Mourey's life. The
St. Andrews University
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's researcher Elizabeth Lewis, supposes Mourey was a technician in Paris, but says she cannot positively identify him.
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19th-century French mathematicians
1791 births
1830 deaths
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