Étienne Bezout

Bezout, Étienne

 

Born Mar. 31, 1730, in Nemours; died Sept. 27, 1783, in Basses-Loges, near Fontainebleau. French mathematician. Member of the Parisian Academy of Sciences (1758).

Bezout’s main works are concerned with advanced algebra—the study of the properties of systems of algebraic equations of higher degrees and the exclusion of unknowns in such systems.

WORKS

Théorie générale des équations algébraiques. Paris, 1779.

REFERENCES

Wieleitner, H. Istoriia matematiki ot Dekarta do serediny XIX stoletiia. Moscow, 1960. (Translated from German.)