Nicolas Auguste Tissot
Nicolas Auguste Tissot (born March 16, 1824 in Nancy , † 1897 in Paris ) was a French mathematician and cartographer .
Tissot studied at the École polytechnique from 1841 to 1843 and was then a pioneer officer (captain) in the French army until 1850. From 1852 he was a mathematics professor at the Lycée Saint-Louis and also a tutor at the École polytechnique. He studied distortions of map projections and developed a map projection with the lowest possible distortion, which was adopted by the French army. After him, Tissot's indicatrix is named, which indicates the distortion of a map projection in the form of distortion ellipses. He published about it in 1859 and 1871 and presented his theory in a book in 1881.
Fonts
- Précis de cosmographie, 1869
- Mémoire sur la représentation des surfaces et les projections des cartes geographiques, Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1881
- German translation by E. Hammer: The network drafts of geographical maps .. , Stuttgart 1887
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SURNAME | Tissot, Nicolas Auguste |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician and cartographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1824 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nancy |
DATE OF DEATH | 1897 |
Place of death | Paris |