Dandelin

Germinal Pierre Dandelin

Born: 12 April 1794 in Le Bourget, France
Died: 15 Feb 1847 in Brussels, Belgium

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Dandelin was wounded in action in both 1814 and 1815. He worked on geometry and has an important theorem on the intersection of a cone and its inscribed sphere with a plane, discovered in 1822, named after him. Dandelin also worked on stereographic projection, statics, algebra and probability.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. A Quetelet, C P Dandelin, Biographie nationale XIV (Brussels,1873), 663-668. 
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