Louis Poinsot (French pronunciation: [lwi pwɛ̃so]; 3 January 1777 – 5 December 1859) was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor...

In geometry, a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron is any of four regular star polyhedra. They may be obtained by stellating the regular convex dodecahedron and...

effect had been known for at least 150 years, having been described by Louis Poinsot in 1834. The theorem describes the following effect: rotation of an...

the hyperbolic secant. They are named after the French mathematician Louis Poinsot. Mathematics portal Cotes's spiral – Plane curve Lawrence, J. Dennis...

In classical mechanics, Poinsot's construction (after Louis Poinsot) is a geometrical method for visualizing the torque-free motion of a rotating rigid...

Poinsot is a worn lunar impact crater that is located at the northern part of the Moon on the far side. It lies to the south of the walled plain Rozhdestvenskiy...

Cauchy created many enemies in scientific circles. In November 1815, Louis Poinsot, who was an associate professor at the École Polytechnique, asked to...

this, he summarized and extended the work of his predecessors 1803 - Louis Poinsot develops idea of angular momentum conservation (this result was previously...

polyhedra (the Platonic solids), and four regular star polyhedra (the Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra), making nine regular polyhedra in all. In addition, there are...

vertex. The discovery of the great dodecahedron is sometimes credited to Louis Poinsot in 1810, though there is a drawing of something very similar to a great...

In geometry, the small stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, named by Arthur Cayley, and with Schläfli symbol {5⁄2,5}. It is one of four...

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Theorema Egregium Louis Poinsot (1777–1859) Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) – projective geometry Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857)...

Polyhedra and, together with two regular polyhedra discovered by Louis Poinsot, as the Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra. He describes polyhedra in terms of their faces...

that a fixed plane was associated with rotation—his invariable plane. Louis Poinsot in 1803 began representing rotations as a line segment perpendicular...

be about 9–10 months.[citation needed] During the mid 19th century, Louis Poinsot developed a geometric interpretation of the physics of rotating bodies...

unknown architect, 19th century Mixed with Neoclassicism - Grave of Louis Poinsot in Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by David d'Angers, mid-19th century...

Louis Poinsot extended Kepler's work, and discovered the remaining two regular star polyhedra. Soon after, Augustin-Louis Cauchy proved Poinsot's list...

(1774–1862) Étienne-Louis Malus (1775–1812) André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) Sophie Germain (1776–1831) Carl Friedrich Gauss^ (1777–1855) Louis Poinsot (1777–1859)...

a curve to a given set of observations. 1806 – Louis Poinsot discovers the two remaining Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra. 1806 – Jean-Robert Argand publishes...

la Flûte Traversière January 1 – Micah Hawkins, composer January 3 – Louis Poinsot, instrument maker January 8 – Filippo Traetta, musicologist January...

of the United States with accompanying memoir. Louis Poinsot describes the two remaining Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra. December 25 – American physician Ephraim...

which he introduces descriptive geometry. 1806 – Louis Poinsot discovers the two remaining Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra. 1829 – Bolyai, Gauss, and Lobachevsky...

and coming to represent British Regency humour. Louis Poinsot describes the two remaining Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck publishes Philosophie...

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stellated dodecahedron in 1619 that he realised these two were regular. Louis Poinsot discovered the great dodecahedron and great icosahedron in 1809, and...

two of the regular Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra, the small stellated dodecahedron and great stellated dodecahedron. Louis Poinsot (1809) discovered the other...

Louis Trolle Hjelmslev (Danish: [ˈjelˀmsle̝w]; 3 October 1899 – 30 May 1965) was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School...

Poincaré–Bendixson theorem – Henri Poincaré and Ivar Otto Bendixson Poinsot's spirals – Louis Poinsot Polchinski's paradox – Joseph Polchinski Potts model (a.k...

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