Mathematician:Jacques Philippe Marie Binet

Mathematician
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 Definitions

 * Binet-Cauchy Identity (with ) (also known as Binet's Formula)
 * Cauchy-Binet Formula (with ) (also known, confusingly, as the Binet-Cauchy Identity)
 * Binet's Theorem
 * Binet Form
 * Euler-Binet Formula (with ) (also known as Binet's Formula)
 * Binet's Formula for Logarithm of Gamma Function

Publications

 * 1840: Mémoire sur les intégrales définies eulériennes