Joseph-Alphonse Adhémar

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Grave on the Cimetière de Montmartre

Joseph-Alphonse Adhémar (* 1797 ; † 1862 ) was a French mathematician .

Adhémar was the first to propose astronomical causes, namely the eccentricity of the earth's orbit around the sun, for the formation of the ice ages ( Révolutions de la mer. Déluges périodiques ). Under the title Cours de mathématiques à l'usage de l'ingénieur civil , he wrote a number of special manuals on various parts of pure and applied mathematics . He also wrote some treatises on descriptive geometry .

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  • Revolutions de la mer. Déluges périodiques , Paris 1842 , 3rd edition 1874
  • Cours de mathématiques à l'usage de l'ingénieur civil , (Paris 1832 -56, 14 vols.)
  • Traité de géometrie descriptive , (Paris 1834 , 3rd ed. 1846)
  • Traité de la coupe des pierres , (3rd edition 1845) full text (Hathitrust)
  • Traité de perspective linéaire , (Paris 1838 , 3rd ed. 1860, translated by O.Möllinger, Solothurn 1845)
  • Traité des ombres , (2nd ed. Paris 1852 ) Google Book search, full text

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SURNAME Adhémar, Joseph-Alphonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1797
DATE OF DEATH 1862