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    University of Michigan. Chasles–Cayley–Brill formula Chasles's theorem (disambiguation) Asteroid 18510 Chasles Michel Chasles at the Mathematics Genealogy...
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  • dancer Michel Chasles (1793–1880), French mathematician Philarète Chasles (1798–1873), French critic and belletrist 18510 Chasles, minor planet Chasles' theorem...
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  • Chasles' theorem may refer to any of several mathematical results attributed to Michel Chasles (1793–1880): Chasles' theorem (kinematics), about translation...
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    was born at Mainvilliers, Eure-et-Loir. His father, Pierre Jacques Michel Chasles (1754–1826), was a member of the Convention, and was one of those who...
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    Distances of the Sun and Moon, and Euclid's Optics and Phaenomena. Since Michel Chasles cited this book of Pappus in his history of geometric methods, it has...
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    similarity or center of similitude. The term, coined by French mathematician Michel Chasles, is derived from two Greek elements: the prefix homo- (όμο), meaning...
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    received his PhD there in 1866. His thesis, written under the direction of Michel Chasles, was titled Sur les surfaces orthogonales. During his studies at the...
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    Project lists his advisor as Michel Chasles, whose lectures on projective geometry he attended at the Sorbonne. Chasles' techniques had a significant...
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    In 1861 Vrain-Lucas approached French mathematician and collector Michel Chasles and sold him forged letters of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton and Blaise...
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    entity, for example, to find the centre of a circle". The mathematician Michel Chasles speculated that these now-lost propositions included content related...
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    Lobachevsky (1792–1856) – hyperbolic geometry, a non-Euclidean geometry Michel Chasles (1793–1880) – projective geometry Germinal Dandelin (1794–1847) – Dandelin...
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    in the École Polytechnique in Paris, where his classmates included Michel Chasles and Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis. The École Polytechnique was intended to...
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  • The result is attributed to Michel Chasles (1793–1880). Weisstein, Eric W. "Chasles's Theorem". MathWorld. M. Chasles (1865) Traité des Sections Coniques...
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    astronomer NW09 DULONG Pierre Louis Dulong physicist and chemist NW10 CHASLES Michel Chasles geometer NW11 LAVOISIER Antoine Lavoisier chemist NW12 AMPERE André-Marie...
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    transformations using planes was a major goal in the work of Camille Jordan. and Michel Chasles since it allows the treatment to be dimension-independent. Inversive...
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  • united points, where d and e are the degrees of T and its inverse. Michel Chasles introduced the formula for genus g = 0, Arthur Cayley stated the general...
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    A related result on conics was first proved by the French geometer Michel Chasles and later generalized to cubics by Arthur Cayley and Isaak Bacharach...
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  • of a point mass. The theorem is attributed to Michel Chasles (1793–1880). Benjamin Peirce followed Chasles work on that developed an analogy between conduction...
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    Collection: Book VII. Early users of Pappus included Isaac Newton, Michel Chasles, and Robert Simson. In 1986 Alexander Jones made a translation of the...
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  • Lubin Adelphe Chasles (5 October 1795 – 28 January 1868) was a 19th-century French politician. The brother of mathematician Michel Chasles, he was a notary...
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    elliptic form of the orbits of planets.) In 1841, the French mathematician Michel Chasles was one of the first to reevaluate his role in the development of modern...
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  • Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1869) 1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880) 1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American...
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    after the French mathematician Michel Chasles and which was founded in 1973. It is located on the Boulevard Michel Chasles and is composed of three buildings...
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  • development of projective geometry. The work of Desargues was ignored until Michel Chasles chanced upon a handwritten copy during 1845. Meanwhile, Jean-Victor...
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  • Gaetano Giorgini (1795 — 1874) and his appreciation in an 1830 article by Michel Chasles. Caparrini goes on to indicate that moments of forces and angular velocities...
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    Panoramas et Synthèses, and Revue d'histoire des mathématiques. 1873: Michel Chasles 1874: Laffon de Ladebat 1875: Irénée-Jules Bienaymé 1876: Jules de La...
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    In kinematics, Chasles' theorem, or Mozzi–Chasles' theorem, says that the most general rigid body displacement can be produced by a translation along a...
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    (1861) Thomas Graham (1862) Adam Sedgwick (1863) Charles Darwin (1864) Michel Chasles (1865) Julius Plücker (1866) Karl Ernst von Baer (1867) Charles Wheatstone...
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    (1861) Thomas Graham (1862) Adam Sedgwick (1863) Charles Darwin (1864) Michel Chasles (1865) Julius Plücker (1866) Karl Ernst von Baer (1867) Charles Wheatstone...
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  • view has been most generally accepted abroad, and had the support of Michel Chasles. However, in Liouville's Journal de mathematiques pures et appliquées...
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