Esprit Jouffret
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Esprit Jouffret (born 1837) was a French artillery officer,[1] insurance actuary and mathematician, author of Traité élémentaire de géométrie à quatre dimensions (Elementary Treatise on the Geometry of Four Dimensions, 1903),[2] a popularization of Henri Poincaré's Science and Hypothesis in which Jouffret described hypercubes and other complex polyhedra in four dimensions and projected them onto the two-dimensional page.
Maurice Princet brought Traite to Picasso's attention. Picasso's sketchbooks for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon illustrate Jouffret's influence on the artist's work.[3]
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- ^ Jouffret, Esprit (1881) (in French). Cours d'artillerie: Les projectiles. Fontainebleau, France): École d'application de l'artillerie et du génie. http://books.google.com/books?id=YqvmBPs5pHQC. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- ^ Jouffret, Esprit (1903) (in French). Traité élémentaire de géométrie à quatre dimensions et introduction à la géométrie à n dimensions. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. OCLC 1445172. http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.math/docviewer?did=04810001. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- ^ Miller. Einstein, Picasso. pp. 106–117.
