Joseph Alfred Serret
Joseph Serret (born August 30, 1819 in Paris , died March 2, 1885 in Versailles ) is a mathematician and astronomer French, especially known for formulas of differential geometry associated with the Frenet-Serret triad.
He left the Ecole Polytechnique in 1840 and obtained a doctorate in mathematics at the Faculty of Paris in 1847. He became an examiner for the entrance of that school in 1848 and being responsible for higher algebra at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris that year. Successor of Louis Poinsot at the Academy of Sciences (1860), professor of celestial mechanics at the College de France (1861), he took over from Lefebure Fourcy of the Faculty of Paris in 1863 and became a member of the Bureau des Longitudes in 1873.
As qu'acadmicien, Serret assured publishing mathematical works of Gaspard Monge (1850) and Joseph Louis Lagrange (from 1867).
A small street in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , the Serret street bears his name.
Bibliography
- On the motion of a material attracted by two fixed centers, as the inverse square of the distance. Tracking The determination of the figure of the heavenly bodies, theses mechanics and astronomy presented at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris October 25, 1847 [1]
- Algebra course professed superior to the Faculty of Paris, 1849. [2]
| Preceded by | Joseph Alfred Serret | Followed by | |
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| tienne-Louis Lefebure of Fourcy |
| Emile Picard |
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