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Louis Poinsot

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Gender Male
Death165 years ago
Date of birth January 3,1777
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Born Paris
France
Date of died December 5,1859
DiedParis
France
Job Mathematician
Inventor
Education École des ponts ParisTech
École Polytechnique
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
BooksThe elements of statics: tr. To which are added, explanatory notes [&c. ] by T. Sutton
Outlines of a New Theory of Rotatory Motion
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Louis Poinsot was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.

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