Mathematician:Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
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Mathematician
French mathematician and astronomer.
Author of well-known books on the history of astronomy from ancient times to the 18th century.
Placed in charge of the mission to measure the meridian from Dunkirk to Rodez in the south of France, taking over the responsibility from Jean-Dominique de Cassini, who refused the mission for political reasons.
One of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas, formulating the trigonometrical identities now known as Delambre's Analogies.
Nationality
French
History
- Born: 19 September 1749 in Amiens, France
- Died: 19 August 1822 in Paris, France
Theorems and Definitions
- Delambre's Analogies (also known as Gauss's Formulas, for Carl Friedrich Gauss)
Results named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre can be found here.
Publications
- 1799: Méthodes analytiques pour la détermination d'un arc du méridien
- January 1806: Notice historique sur M. Méchain, lue le 5 messidor XIII
- 1806, 1807, 1810: Base du système métrique décimal, ou Mesure de l'arc du méridien – compris entre les parallèles de Dunkerque et Barcelone, exécutée en 1792 et années suivantes, par MM. Méchain et Delambre (as editor) (3 volumes)
- 1810: Rapport historique sur le progrès des sciences mathématiques depuis 1799
- A history of astronomy, comprising four works and six volumes in all:
- 1817: Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne (2 volumes)
- 1819: Histoire de l'astronomie du moyen age
- 1821: Histoire de l'astronomie moderne (2 volumes)
- 1827: Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle (edited by Claude-Louis Mathieu)
- 1912: Grandeur et figure de la terre, ouvrage augmenté de notes, de cartes (edited by Guillaume Bigourdan)
Also known as
Full name and title Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre.
Some sources hyphenate: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre or even Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre.