^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724.Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed Octo. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. His brother was the well-known lawyer André Dupin. He was inspired by the work of Georg Hassel and August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome. Each district was shown in different shades depending on the frequency. In 1826 he published a map on the distribution of illiteracy in France. In 1823 he became an honorary member ( Honorary Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1826 of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg.
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In 1813 he was elected to the Institut de France (the Napoleonic replacement for the French Academy) and in 1818 as a full member of the French Academy of Sciences. The set of Dupin is a statement of triple orthogonal systems of surfaces. He introduced the Dupin indicatrix into the differential geometry of surfaces and asymptotic lines on surfaces ( Developpments de la Geometrie 1813). As a politician he tried to build schools, banks, industry (especially the spread of steam power), roads and canals.Īs a student, he discovered the Dupin's cyclides named after him. In 1834 he became Minister of the Navy and served in the French Senate from 1852. In 1828 he was elected to parliament as a deputy for the Tarn department. held on the uses of geometry in industry. From 1819 to 1854 he was a mathematics professor at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris, where he also gave very popular public lectures, e.g. He studied with Gaspard Monge at the École polytechnique and then went on sea voyages as a marine engineer and later in Antwerp, Genoa, Toulouse (where he founded the Naval Museum in 1813) and from 1807 to 1810 in Corfu, where he renovated the naval arsenal and the port. Pierre Charles François Dupin (born Octoin Varzy, † Januin Paris ) was a French mathematician, engineer and politician.ĭupin was the son of a lawyer and grew up in Nivernais. Essai historique sur les services et les travaux scientifiques de Gaspard Monge, 1819
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