Lemoine

Émile Michel Hyacinthe Lemoine

Born: 22 Nov 1840 in Quimper, France
Died: 21 Dec 1912 in Paris, France

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Lemoine was educated at the École Polytechnique and was subsequently a civil engineer but worked as an amateur mathematician and musician.

Lemoine founded a new study of properties of a triangle in a paper of 1873 where he studied the point of intersection of the symmedians of a triangle.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. J L Coolidge, A history of geometrical methods (Oxford, 1940), 58. 
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