René Dugas

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René François Dugas (born August 11, 1897 in Caen , † June 15, 1957 in Paris ) was a French engineer and science historian.

He studied at the École polytechnique (admitted in 1919) and at the Ecole des Mines, was a mining engineer and full-time with the French national railway company (SNCF). He also held lectures at the École polytechnique (he was there from 1942 to 1955 Maitre de Conferences) and the École des Mines (Chargé du Cours 1940 to 1944).

He dealt with the history of mechanics in his spare time and is known for two books here, published in 1950 and 1954.

Fonts

  • La méthode dans la mécanique des quanta (axiomatique, déterminisme et représentations), Paris: Hermann 1935
  • Essai sur l'incompréhension mathématique, Paris: Vuibert 1940
  • La mécanique au XVII siècle, des antécédents scolastiques à la pensée classique, Paris: Dunod 1954
  • Histoire de la mécanique, Neuchâtel, Éditions du Griffon, 1950 (foreword Louis de Broglie )
    • English translation: A history of mechanics, London: Routledge & Paul 1955, Dover 1988 (translator JR Maddox)
  • La théorie physique au sens de Boltzmann et ses prolongements modern, Neuchâtel, Éditions du Griffon, 1959

literature

  • Pierre Costabel René Dugas , Arch. Int. Hist. Sci., 10, 1957, 305-307
  • René Taton René Dugas (1897-1957) , Rev. Hist. Sci., 10, 1957, 263-264
  • Dauben, Scriba (Ed.) Writing the History of Mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002
personal data
SURNAME Dugas, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dugas, René François (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French engineer and historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1957
Place of death Paris