- Étienne Bézout
Étienne Bézout (
March 31 ,1730 -September 27 ,1783 ) was a Frenchmathematician who was born inNemours ,Seine-et-Marne ,France , and died inBasses-Loges (nearFontainebleau ), France.Work
In 1758 Bézout was elected an adjoint in mechanics of the
French Academy of Sciences .Besides numerous minor works, wrote a "Théorie générale des équations algébriques", published at Paris in 1779, which in particular contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation: he useddeterminant s in a paper in the "Histoire de l'académie royale", 1764, but did not treat of the general theory.ee also
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Bézout's theorem
*Bézout's identity
*Bézout matrix
*Bézout domain References
*"The original version of this article was taken from the
public domain Rouse History of Mathematics "Further reading
DSB
first=Judith
last=Grabiner
title=Bezout, Etienne
volume=2
pages=111-114External links
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