Mathematician:Jules Antoine Lissajous

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