Mannheim

Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim

Born: 17 July 1831 in Paris, France
Died: 11 Dec 1906 in Paris, France

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Amédée Mannheim was an officer of the French artillery. Although slide rules existed before his time, invented by Oughtred and Gunter and others, it was Mannheim who standardised the modern version of the slide rule (1859) which was in common use up until pocket calculators took over.

He also made contributions to geometry. He studied transformations introduced by Chasles and applied the results to kinetic geometry. He studied surfaces, in particular Fresnel's wave surfaces.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. G Loria, L'opera geometrica di A Mannheim, Rendiconti del Circolo matimatico di Palermo 26 (1908), 1-63.
  3. Amédée Mannheim, Proc. London Math. Soc. 5 (1907), 13. 
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