Germinal Pierre Dandelin
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Germinal Pierre Dandelin (/ʒɛʁminˈal pjˈɛʁ dɑ̃dlˈɛ̃/, 12 April 1794 – 15 February 1847) was a French mathematician, soldier, and professor of engineering.
Life
He was born near Paris to a French father and Belgian mother, studying first at Ghent then returning to Paris to study at the École Polytechnique. He was wounded fighting under Napoleon. He worked for the Ministry of the Interior under Lazare Carnot. Later he became a citizen of the Netherlands, a professor of mining engineering in Belgium, and then a member of the Belgian army.
Work
He is the eponym of the Dandelin spheres, of Dandelin's theorem in geometry (for an account of that theorem, see Dandelin spheres), and of the Dandelin–Gräffe numerical method of solution of algebraic equations. He also published on the stereographic projection, algebra, and probability theory.
References
- Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970–1990).
- Florian Cajori, The Dandelin–Gräffe method, in A history of Mathematics (New York, 1938), 364.
- A. S. Householder, Dandelin, Lobachevskii, or Gräffe?, American Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 464–466.
- A. Quetelet, G P Dandelin, Biographie nationale XIV (Brussels,1873), 663–668.
- C. Runge, The Dandelin–Gräffe method, in Praxis der Gleichungen (Berlin-Leipzig, 1921), 136–158.
Further reading
- Struik, Dirk J. (1970–1980). "Dandelin, Germinal Pierre". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 554–555. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
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- 1794 births
- 1847 deaths
- 19th-century French mathematicians
- 19th-century Belgian mathematicians
- Belgian mining engineers
- 19th-century Dutch mathematicians
- Dutch mining engineers
- People from Seine-Saint-Denis
- 19th-century Dutch engineers
- 19th-century Belgian engineers