Victor Mayer Amed Mannheim ( fr. Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim ; July 17, 1831 , Paris - December 11, 1906 , Paris ) - French mathematician and engineer.
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After graduating from the Polytechnic School (1848), he served as an officer in artillery, then, without dismissing from the army, he returned to his alma mater as a teacher (1859). Since 1864, Professor of Descriptive Geometry. In 1890, he retired from military service with the rank of colonel, but until 1901 he continued to teach.
In 1877 he served as president of the French Mathematical Society , in 1878 he was elected an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society . In 1872 he was awarded the Poncelet Prize .
Currently, the name of Mannheim is associated mainly with the decisive improvement that he made to the design of the slide rule : in 1850, he proposed adding a slider to it, clearly showing the results.
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- ↑ 1 2 Archive for the History of Mathematics McTutor
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.