Michael chasles biography
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Michel Chasles
Michel Chasles
Portrait of Michel Chasles, geometer
Biography
Michel Chasles is one of 72 scientists whose name is on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower.
Michael chasles biography
He is the 11th, on the face facing North.
Michel Chasles, geometer, was born on November 15, , in Epernon, chief town of canton of the current department of Eure-et-Loir. He died in Paris, on December 18, He entered the Ecole polytechnique in and graduated in Successively engineer, stockbroker, professor, he never stopped cultivating the mathematical sciences and especially geometry, that it has enriched a host of new and important theorems.
First, we see it dealing with the transformation of the circle and the sphere into ellipses and ellipsoids, by the reduction, in a constant ratio, of their ordinates counted from a diameter or a diametral plane. By this method he succeeds in extending the results acquired by his predecessors on the envelope of the sphere tangent to three others, in the case of si