Mathematician:Michel Chasles

Mathematician
French mathematician known for his work in projective geometry, as well as for his contributions to harmonic analysis.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 15 November 1793
 * Died: 18 December 1880

Theorems and Definitions

 * Chasles' Relation
 * Chasles-Cayley-Brill formula
 * Chasles' Theorem

Publications

 * 1837: Aperçu Historique sur l'Origine et le Développement des Méthodes en Géométrie
 * 1852: Traité de Géométrie
 * 1865: Traité des Sections Coniques

Notable Quotes

 * History shows that those heads of empires who have encouraged the cultivation of mathematics, the common source of all the exact sciences, are also those whose reigns have been the most brilliant and whose glory is the more durable.
 * -- Quoted in epigraph to : Chapter $\text{IX}$: Analysis Incarnate

Also known as
Originally christened Floréal Chasles, but renamed Michel Chasles for political reasons just before his sixteenth birthday.