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 in Epernon, France
• Died: 18 December 1880 in Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Chasles' Relation
• Chasles-Cayley-Brill Formula
• Chasles' Theorem

Results named for Michel Chasles can be found here.

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 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics: Chapter $\text{IX}$: Analysis Incarnate

Also known as

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

Sources

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

• 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text{VIII}$: Nature or Nurture?