Esprit Jouffret

Esprit Jouffret was a French artillery officer [cite book |last=Jouffret |first=Esprit |title=Cours d'artillerie: Les projectiles |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YqvmBPs5pHQC |accessdate=2008-07-22 |year=1881|publisher=École d'application de l'artillerie et du génie |location=Fontainebleau, France) |language=French ] , insurance actuary and mathematician, author of "Traité élémentaire de géométrie à quatre dimensions" ("Elementary Treatise on the Geometry of Four Dimensions", 1903), [cite book |last=Jouffret |first=Esprit |title=Traité élémentaire de géométrie à quatre dimensions et introduction à la géométrie à n dimensions |url=http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.math/docviewer?did=04810001 |accessdate=2008-07-22 |year=1903 |publisher=Gauthier-Villars |location=Paris |language=French |oclc=1445172 ] a popularization of Henri Poincaré's "Science and Hypothesis" in which Jouffret described hypercubes and other complex polyhedra in four dimensions and projected them onto the two-dimensional page.

Maurice Princet brought "Traite" to Picasso's attention. Picasso's sketchbooks for "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" illustrate Jouffret's influence on the artist's work. [cite book |last=Miller |title=Einstein, Picasso |pages=106-117 ]

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Maurice Princet

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