Alexis Fontaine des Bertins
Alexis Fontaine, known as Alexis Fontaine des Bertins (13 August 1704, Claveyson – 21 August 1771, Cuiseaux) was a French mathematician. He was a patron and teacher of Jean-Jacques de Marguerie.
Life
He first got a taste for maths by reading the Géométrie de l'infini of Fontenelle and gave solutions to the problems of the tautochrone curve, the brachistochrone curve and orthogonal trajectories.
Publications
- Mémoires donnés à l'Académie royale des sciences, non imprimés dans leur temps (1764)
- Traité de calcul différentiel et intégral, par M. Fontaine, de l'Académie royale des sciences, pour servir de suite aux mémoires de la même Académie (1770)
Source
External links
- J M C de Condorcet, Eloge de M Fontaine, Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences 1771 (Paris, 1774), 105-116.J L Greenberg, Alexis Fontaine's route to the calculus of several variables, Historia Math. 11 (1) (1984), 22-38.
- J L Greenberg, Alexis Fontaine's integration of ordinary differential equations and the origins of the calculus of several variables, Ann. of Sci. 39 (1) (1982), 1-36.
- J L Greenberg, Alexis Fontaine's 'fluxio- differential method' and the origins of the calculus of several variables, Ann. of Sci. 38 (3) (1981), 251-290.
- This article uses text from the Dictionnaire Bouillet.
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13 August 1704 |
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21 August 1771 |
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