Mathematician:Louis Poinsot

Mathematician

French mathematician and physicist best known for his work in geometry and the embryonic field of graph theory.

Invented the field of geometrical mechanics.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: January 3rd, 1777 in Paris, France.
• Died: December 5th 1859 in Paris, France.

Theorems and Inventions

• Poinsot Central Axis, another word for the axis of a wrench
• Poinsot's Construction

• Kepler-Poinsot Polyhedra (with Johannes Kepler), otherwise known as Poinsot solids.

Results named for Louis Poinsot can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Louis Poinsot can be found here.

Publications

• 1803: Éléments de statique
• 1834: Theorie nouvelle de la rotation des corps

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Louis Poinsot": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poinsot, Louis (1777-1859)