B chapter.indd - Charles Babbage Institute - University of Minnesota
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Erwin Tomash Library<br />
Bosmans, H. Bossut, <strong>Charles</strong><br />
B 211<br />
Division examples, B 211<br />
Colophon, B 211<br />
Bosmans, H., editor<br />
See Stevin, Simon; La “Thiende de Simon Stevin,”<br />
1924<br />
B 212<br />
Bossut, <strong>Charles</strong> (1730–1814)<br />
Essai sur l’histoire génerale des mathematiques.<br />
Year: 1802<br />
Place: Paris<br />
Publisher: Louis<br />
Edition: 1st<br />
Language: French<br />
Figures: engraved portrait frontispiece<br />
Binding: original red cloth boards; spine gilt<br />
Pagination: v.1: pp. xii, 394, 2; v.2: pp. [4], 426<br />
Collation: v.1: π 6 1–24 8 25 6 ; v.2: π 2 1–26 8 27 5 (-276)<br />
Size: 220x132 mm<br />
Reference: Cre CL, p. 103<br />
Bossut was raised by a paternal uncle after his father<br />
died. He began his study <strong>of</strong> mathematics at the Jesuit<br />
Collège de Lyon, at the age <strong>of</strong> 14, as a student <strong>of</strong> Père<br />
Béraud, who also taught Jean Etienne Montucla and<br />
Joseph Lalande. He was a pr<strong>of</strong>essor at several notable<br />
universities in France, is known to have authored several<br />
textbooks, and is remembered for his contributions<br />
to mathematical education rather than for his own<br />
mathematical studies. He edited an edition <strong>of</strong> the work<br />
<strong>of</strong> Blaise Pascal and contributed to the editing <strong>of</strong> Denis<br />
Diderot’s encyclopedia.<br />
In this two-volume history <strong>of</strong> mathematics, Bossut<br />
laments the lack <strong>of</strong> a decent history <strong>of</strong> the subject.<br />
B 212
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