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Michel Chasles
Michel Floréal Chasles was a French mathematician.
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science · French mathematician (1793–1880) · mathematician · historian of mathematics · physicist · university teacher · geometer · geodesist · also Michel Chasles, Chasles
Born 15 November 1793 · Died 18 December 1880 · Q318067
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2015· 1 entry
L'Humanité: Michel Chasles, un académicien des sciences bien crédule
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2004· 1 entry
The journal Critical Inquiry published a recently "discovered" 1871 letter written by Vrain-Lucas (from prison) to Chasles, conveying Vrain-Lucas's perspective on these events, itself an invention
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1986· 1 entry
Alexander Jones published a commentary on Book 7 of the Collection of Pappus of Alexandria, which Chasles had referred to in his history of geometric methods
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1880· 1 entry
Died 1880-12-18.
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1873· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the Mathematical Society of France (1873–1873).
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1866· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1866).
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1865· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1865).
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1864· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1864).
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1860· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1860–1860).
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1854· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1854).
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1841· 2 entries
Charles Graves published an English version as Two Geometrical Memoirs on the General Properties of Cones of the Second Degree and on the Spherical Conics, adding a significant amount of original material
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And was awarded a chair at the Sorbonne in 1846
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1839· 1 entry
Ludwig Adolph Sohncke (the father of Leonhard Sohncke) translated the original into German as Geschichte der geometrie, hauptsachlich mit bezug auf die neueren methoden
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1837· 1 entry
Published the book Aperçu historique sur l'origine et le développement des méthodes en géométrie ("Historical view of the origin and development of methods in geometry"), a study of the method of reciprocal polars in
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1814· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1812–1814).
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1812· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand (1812).
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1793· 1 entry
Born 1793-11-15.
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