Bourgainville

Louis Antoine de Bourgainville

Born: 11 Nov 1729 in Paris, France
Died: 31 Aug 1811 in Paris, France

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Bourgainville was influenced by d'Alembert and wrote Traité du calcul -intégral in 1752. This extended de l'Hôpital's work to cover the integral calculus. This work, famed for its clarity, led to his election to the Royal Society in 1756.

Bourgainville then gave up mathematics and became an explorer. He was the first Frenchman to sail round the World. He made systematic astronomical observations on his voyages which provided important navigation charts to later explorers.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. J Dorsenne, La vie de Bourgainville (Paris, 1930). 
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