Mathematician:Jacques Philippe Marie Binet

French mathematician best known for his contribution to the Binet-Cauchy Identity.

Recognized as the first to define the rules for matrix multiplication.

Nationality
French.

History

 * Born: 2 Feb 1786, Rennes, Bretagne, France
 * Died: 12 May 1856, Paris, France

Theorems and Conjectures

 * Binet-Cauchy Identity (with Augustin Louis Cauchy) (also known as Binet's Formula)
 * Cauchy-Binet Formula (with Augustin Louis Cauchy)
 * Binet's Theorem
 * Binet Form
 * Euler-Binet Formula (with Leonhard Paul Euler) (also known as Binet's Formula)

Books and Papers

 * 1840: Mémoire sur les intégrales définies eulériennes