Athanase Dupré
Athanase Louis Victoire Dupré (born December 28, 1808 , † August 10, 1869 ) was a French mathematician and physicist.
Athanase Dupré received his training at the Collège in Auxerre and the École normal supérieure in Paris and then taught at the Collège Royal in Rennes until 1847 . In that year he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Rennes and in 1866 he became dean of the Faculté des Sciences there.
He dealt with number theory and in the 1860s with thermodynamics ; he wrote the textbook Théorie mécanique de la chaleur (1869), which contributed significantly to the spread of this then new field of knowledge in France. Together with his experimental son Paul Dupré, he investigated the capillary forces and the surface tension of liquids. This work also led to the formulation of Young's equation , which is still known today as the Young-Dupré equation.
Web links and sources
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Athanase Dupré. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
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| SURNAME | Dupré, Athanase |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dupré, Athanase Louis Victoire (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1808 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1869 |