Mathematician:Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot

Mathematician

French mathematician, physicist and politician.

Known as the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Father of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 13 May 1753 in Nolay, Burgundy, France
• Died: 2 August 1823 in Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony (now Germany)

Theorems and Definitions

• Borda-Carnot Equation (with Jean-Charles de Borda)
• Carnot's Formulas

Results named for Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot can be found here.

Publications

• 1780: Essai sur les machines en général
  • 1783: Essai sur les machines en général (revised and republished)
• 1783: Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement
• 1797: Réflexions sur la métaphysique du calcul infinitésimal
  • 1832: Reflexions on the metaphysical principles of the infinitesimal analysis (translation of Réflexions sur la métaphysique du calcul infinitésimal)
• 1801: De la corrélation des figures de géométrie
• 1803: Géométrie de Position
• 1809: De la défense des places fortes
• 1814: A treatise on the defence of fortified places

Also known as

Full name and title: Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Count Carnot.

Some sources present his third name with an accent: Lazare Nicolas Marguérite Carnot.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823)