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Born November 15, 1793, Died December 18, 1880. “KNOW ye not that there is a prince and a great o*o*o man fallen this day?”might well have been the thought of the President Becquerel when he announced to the Academy on the 2Oth ult. that Chasles was dead. To many the man who had surpassed in age Leibnitz by seventeen, Euler by eleven, Lagrange by ten, Laplace and Gauss by nine, and Newton by two years, was a "venerabile nomen,"but yet a "nomen"only.
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Note, p. 583, to the admirable "Discours d'Inauguration de Cours de Géométrie Supérieure de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris" (December 22, 1846), which follows the second edition of the "Traité de Géométrie Supérieure" (1880).
"Toutes les chaires ont un titre special." "Rapport sur les Progrès de la Géométrie," Paris, 1870 Pp. 219, 376.
Pp. 72–126, 220–280, contain an account of the author's own contributions to geometry.
De Morgan says, "A work of great importance in the historical point of view."
"Considérations sur le caractère propre du principe de Correspondance," "S'applique avec une très grande facilité, à une infinité de questions."
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TUCKER, R. Michel Chasles . Nature 23, 225–227 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023225a0
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