Olinde Rodrigues
French banker and mathematician (1795–1851) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues (6 October 1795 – 17 December 1851), more commonly known as Olinde Rodrigues, was a French banker, mathematician, and social reformer. In mathematics Rodrigues is remembered for Rodrigues' rotation formula for vectors, the Rodrigues formula for the Legendre polynomials, and the Euler–Rodrigues parameters.
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Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues | |
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Born | (1795-10-06)6 October 1795 |
Died | 17 December 1851(1851-12-17) (aged 56) |
Alma mater | University of Paris |
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