Mathematician:Paul Tannery

Mathematician

French mathematician and historian best known for his work on the history of Greek mathematics.

Edited the works of Diophantus, Fermat and Descartes.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 20 Dec 1843, Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines, France
• Died: 27 Nov 1904 in Pantin, Seine-St Denis, France

Publications

• 1830 - 1842: Cours de philosophie positive, six volumes

• 1884: Notes pour l'histoire des lignes et surfaces courbes dans l'antiquité (Bull. des Sc. Math. et Astr. Ser. 2 Vol. 8, no. 1: pp. 101 – 112)

• 1884: Sur l'authenticité des axiomes d'Euclide (Bull. des Sc. Math. et Astr. Ser. 2 Vol. 8, no. 1: pp. 162 – 175)

• 1887: A history of Greek science
• 1887: La Géométrie grecque (a history of Greek geometry), referred to extensively in Sir Thomas L. Heath's edition of Euclid's The Elements
• 1893: A history of ancient astronomy

Also contributed to the editorship of the following:

• 1891 - 1896: Oeuvres de Fermat, three volumes (with Charles Henry)
• 1893 - 1895: The work of Diophantus, two volumes, in Greek
• 1897 - 1913: Oeuvres de Descartes, twelve volumes (contributing editor)

Sources

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