Charles Bossut

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Charles Bossut
Born	(1730-08-11)11 August 1730 Tartaras, France
Died	14 January 1814(1814-01-14) (aged 83) Paris, France
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics

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). 1. Pavia: Stamperia del Monastero di S. Salvatore. 1788.
• Traité élémentaire de mechanique et de dinamique (in Italian). 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

External links[]

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Charles Bossut", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews

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