Jean Paul de Gua de Malves
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves (* 1713 in Carcassonne , † June 2, 1785 in Paris ) was a French clergyman, encyclopaedist and mathematician in the Age of Enlightenment .
Live and act
Abbé Jean Paul de Gua de Malves was Prieur de Saint-George-de-Vigou and the son of Jean de Gua, baron de Malves and his wife Jeanne de Harrugue from Languedoc . After a stay in Italy, he studied at the Société des Arts , a kind of scientific-technical academy which was founded in 1729 by Louis de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Clermont .
Abbé Jean Paul de Gua de Malves published a work on analytical geometry in 1740 , in which he applied it to determine tangents and asymptotes of algebraic curves without the aid of differential calculus . The de Gua theorem , which is a spatial analogue to the Pythagoras theorem , is named after him .
The Parisian publisher and court printer André François Le Breton planned a French edition of Ephraim Chambers' English work from 1728, the Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences , in French . To this end, he teamed up with three other publishers, Antoine-Claude Briasson (1700–1775), Michel-Antoine David (1707–1769), Laurent Durand (1712–1763). Jean-Paul de Gua de Malves has just been entrusted with the organizational management. In 1747, however, he gave up his participation in this project and Denis Diderot took over his function and the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers of French pioneers of the Enlightenment emerged from the original project .
He was a member of the Académie des Sciences .
literature
- Nicolas de Condorcet , "Éloge de M. l'abbé de Gua", Œuvres de Condorcet , Firmin Didot frères, 1847–1849, Paris, pp. 241-58. ( full online version (Google Books) )
- Jean Paul de Gua de Malves (1740) . In: Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association of 1894, Volume 3 ( online version (German digital journal archive) )
- Rene Taton: Gua De Malves, Jean Paul De . Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2008.
- Hans-Bert Knoop: Selected Chapters on the History of Mathematics , p. 55 . Script, University of Duisburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Académie royale des sciences (1788)
- ^ Rene Taton: Gua De Malves, Jean Paul De . Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. June 1, 2012
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter G. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 20, 2019 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gua de Malves, Jean Paul de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gua de Malves, Abbé Jean Paul de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1713 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carcassonne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1785 |
| Place of death | Paris |