Henri Béghin

Henri Béghin (born September 16, 1876 in Lille , † February 22, 1969 in Paris ) was a French professor of mechanics .

Life

Béghin studied from 1894 to 1897 at the École normal supérieure (in the same year as Paul Montel , Henri Lebesgue , Paul Langevin ) with the degree of Agrégation and was then professor in Brest at the Naval School. In 1922 he received his doctorate and was then a lecturer (maitre de conférences) in Montpellier. In 1924 he was appointed professor of mechanics at the University of Lille, succeeding Albert Châtelet, and professor of analysis in the following year, succeeding Jean Chazy . In 1929 he became maitre de conférences and then professor at the Sorbonne (as successor to Gabriel Koenigs ). Soon afterwards he was also a tutor and from 1941 professor of mechanics at the École polytechnique . In 1947 he retired from the Sorbonne and the Ecole Polytechnique.

He did not only deal theoretically with mechanics, but also developed a gyro compass, among other things. He worked on the French edition of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences . In 1946 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences .

The mountaineer Pierre Béghin (1951–1992) is his grandson.

Fonts

• Statique et Dynamique, Paris, Armand Colin, 1921
• Étude théorique des compas gyrostatiques Anschütz et Sperry, Paris, 1922
• Etudes des machines locomotives à l'aide du théorème des travaux virtuels, Lille, coll. “Institut industriel du Nord / Bulletin des Élèves ingénieurs”, 1924
• Sur les transmissions par adhérence, Lille, coll. "Institut industriel du Nord / Bulletin des Élèves ingénieurs", 1924
• with Gaston Julia : Exercices de mécanique, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1930
• Cours de mécanique théorique et appliquée: à l'usage des ingénieurs et des étudiants de facultés, professé à l'École polytechnique, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1952

literature

• Obituary by Robert Mazet, Annales de l´ENS 1969

Web links

• Biography at Lille University as part of the history of mathematics at Lille University