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Mathématician
Born Charles BOSSUT
French mathematician
Born on August 11, 1730 in Tartaras , France
Died on January 14, 1814 in Paris , France
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... Charles Bossut (11 August 1730 – 14 January 1814) was a French mathematician and confrère of the Encyclopaedists. He was born at Tartaras, Loire, and died in Paris.
Works
Traité élémentaire d'hydrodynamique (1771) later reworked as Traité théorique et expérimental d'hydrodynamique (1786–87)
Traité élémentaire de méchanique statique (1772)
Traité élémentaire de mechanique et de dinamique (in Italian). Vol. 1. Pavia: Stamperia del Monastero di S. Salvatore. 1788.
Traité élémentaire de mechanique et de dinamique (in Italian). Vol. 2. Pavia: Stamperia del Monastero di S. Salvatore. 1788.
Cours de mathématiques (1781)
Histoire générale des mathématiques (1810)Did write parts of the Encyclopédie on mathematics with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
1768 member of Académie des sciences
See also
History of fluid mechanics
External links
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Charles Bossut", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St AndrewsThis article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Biography from Wikipedia (see original) under licence CC BY-SA 3.0
Geographical origins
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