de Prony

Gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de Prony

Born: 22 July 1755 in France
Died: 29 July 1839

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Gaspard de Prony was a professor at the École Polytechnique from 1794 to 1815 and director of École des Ponts et Chaussés from 1798 until his death. Interested in engineering mathematics, de Prony worked on numerical methods contributing to interpolation, optimisation and trigonometry.

References:

  1. I Grattan-Guinness, Work for the hairdressers : The production of de Prony's logarithmic and trigonometric tables, Annals of the History of Computing 12 (1990), 177-185.
  2. M M Bradley, Gaspard- Clair- Francois- Marie- Riche de Prony : his career as educator and scientist (PhD Thesis Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic, 1984).
  3. M M Bradley, Prony the bridge builder : the life and times of Gaspard de Prony, educator and scientist, Centaurus 37 (1994), 230-268. 
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