Mathematician:Jules Antoine Lissajous
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Mathematician
French physicist, after whom Lissajous figures are named.
Inventor of the Lissajous apparatus.
Nationality
French
History
- Born: 4 March 1822 in Versailles, France
- Died: 24 June 1880 in Plombières-les-Dijon, France
Theorems and Definitions
- Lissajous Figure, also known as Lissajous-Bowditch Figure, for Nathaniel Bowditch
- Lissajous Apparatus
Definitions of concepts named for Jules Antoine Lissajous can be found here.
Publications
- 1850: Sur la position des noeuds dans les lames qui vibrent transversalement
- 1856: Sur un cas particulier de stéréoscopie fourni par l'étude optique des mouvements vibratoires
- 1857: Mémoire sur l'étude optique des mouvements vibratoires
- 1858: Sur les vibrations transversales des lames élastique
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Jules Antoine Lissajous": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians