Charles Bossut
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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.
His works include
- Traité élémentaire d'hydrodynamique (1771) later reworked as Traité théorique et expérimental d'hydrodynamique (1786-87)
- Traité élémentaire de méchanique statique (1772)
- Cours de mathématiques (1781)
- Histoire générale des mathématiques (1810)
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Charles Bossut", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bossut.html.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
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