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30 relations: Alexander John Thompson, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, École des ponts ParisTech, Cent (music), Charles Babbage, Charles Haros, Charles Storer Storrow, Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests, Dynamometer, Edward Sang, History of fluid mechanics, History of logarithms, Ivan Paskvić, Jost Bürgi, July 22, July 29, Kater's pendulum, List of Fellows of the Royal Society P, Q, R, List of French inventions and discoveries, List of mathematicians (P), List of scientific equations named after people, List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower, Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec, Oingt, Pierre-Simon Girard, Prony, Prony brake, Prony equation, Prony's method, Sophie Germain.
Alexander John Thompson
Alexander John Thompson is the author of the last great table of logarithms, published in 1952.
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 178814 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century.
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École des ponts ParisTech
École des Ponts ParisTech (originally called École nationale des ponts et chaussées or ENPC, also nicknamed Ponts) is a university-level institution of higher education and research in the field of science, engineering and technology.
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Cent (music)
The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals.
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.
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Charles Haros
Charles Haros was a geometer (mathematician) in the French Bureau du Cadastre at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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Charles Storer Storrow
Charles Storer Storrow (25 March 1809 – 30 April 1904) was a prominent American civil engineer and industrialist.
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Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests
The Corps des ponts, des eaux et des forêts (in english "Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests") is a technical Grand Corps of the French State (grand corps de l'Etat).
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Dynamometer
A dynamometer or "dyno" for short, is a device for measuring force, torque, or power.
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Edward Sang
Prof Edward Sang FRSE FRSSA LLD (30 January 1805 – 23 December 1890) was a Scottish mathematician and civil engineer, best known for having computed large tables of logarithms, with the help of two of his daughters.
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History of fluid mechanics
The history of fluid mechanics, the study of how fluids move and the forces on them, dates back to the Ancient Greeks.
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History of logarithms
The history of logarithms is the story of a correspondence (in modern terms, a group isomorphism) between multiplication on the positive real numbers and addition on the real number line that was formalized in seventeenth century Europe and was widely used to simplify calculation until the advent of the digital computer.
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Ivan Paskvić
Ivan Paskvić (German: Johann Pasquich, Hungarian: János Pasquich, 3 January 1754 – 15 December 1829) was an Austro-Hungarian astronomer, physicist and mathematician.
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Jost Bürgi
Jost Bürgi (also Joost, Jobst; Latinized surname Burgius or Byrgius; 28 February 1552 – 31 January 1632), active primarily at the courts in Kassel and Prague, was a Swiss clockmaker, a maker of astronomical instruments and a mathematician.
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July 22
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July 29
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Kater's pendulum
A Kater's pendulum is a reversible free swinging pendulum invented by British physicist and army captain Henry Kater in 1817 for use as a gravimeter instrument to measure the local acceleration of gravity.
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society P, Q, R
About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
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List of French inventions and discoveries
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List of mathematicians (P)
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List of scientific equations named after people
This is a list of scientific equations named after people (eponymous equations).
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List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
On the Eiffel Tower, seventy-two names of French scientists, engineers, and mathematicians are engraved in recognition of their contributions.
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Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec
Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec (July 20, 1781 – June 18, 1866) was a French watchmaker.
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Oingt
Oingt is a former commune in the Rhône department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.
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Pierre-Simon Girard
Pierre-Simon Girard (4 November 1765 – 30 November 1836) was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on fluid mechanics.
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Prony
Prony or de Prony may refer to.
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Prony brake
The Prony Brake is a simple device invented by Gaspard de Prony to measure the torque produced by an engine.
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Prony equation
The Prony equation (named after Gaspard de Prony) is a historically important equation in hydraulics, used to calculate the head loss due to friction within a given run of pipe.
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Prony's method
Prony analysis (Prony's method) was developed by Gaspard Riche de Prony in 1795.
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Sophie Germain
Marie-Sophie Germain (1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard_de_Prony
