Maurice Lévy (mathematician)
Maurice Lévy (born February 28, 1838 in Ribeauvillé , Alsace , † September 30, 1910 ) was a French mathematician , physicist and engineer .
Lévy studied at the École polytechnique and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées and became an engineer in 1858, then in 1874 assistant to Joseph Bertrand at the Collège de France . In 1875 he took over a professorship at the École Centrale and in 1885 he succeeded Serret at the chair of analytical and celestial mechanics at the Collège de France. From 1883 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris . In 1889 he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 1893 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
His numerous works include hydrodynamics and hydraulics , the mathematical treatment of elasticity , graphic statics , thermodynamics , kinematics , analytical mechanics and geometry .
As an engineer, Lévy was mainly concerned with materials science and applied mechanics .
Fonts
- Essai théorique et appliqué sur le mouvement des liquides. , Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1867.
- Las statique graphique et ses applications aux constructions. 1874.
- Sur les surfaces dont l'élément linéaire est homogène. 1878. This is where the spiral surfaces are defined for the first time.
literature
- L. Lecornu: Notice sur Maurice Lévy , Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France, Volume 53, 1915.
- Obituary by É. Picard , Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Volume 151, pp. 603-606, 1910.
- Achim Hettler and Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Earth pressure . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-433-03274-9 , pp. 322–323
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| SURNAME | Lévy, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician, physicist and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ribeauvillé |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1910 |