ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Jacques Philippe Marie Binet

French mathematician best known for his contribution to the Binet-Cauchy Identity.

Recognized as the first to define the rules for matrix multiplication.

Nationality

French.

History

• Born: 2 Feb 1786, Rennes, Bretagne, France
• Died: 12 May 1856, Paris, France

Theorems and Conjectures

• Binet-Cauchy Identity (with Augustin Louis Cauchy) (also known as Binet's Formula)
• Cauchy-Binet Formula (with Augustin Louis Cauchy)
• Binet's Theorem
• Binet Form
• Euler-Binet Formula (with for Leonhard Paul Euler) (also known as Binet's Formula)

Books and Papers

• 1840: Mémoire sur les intégrales définies eulériennes

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Jacques Philippe Marie Binet": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive