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Olinde Rodrigues

French banker and mathematician (1795–1851)


French banker and mathematician (1795–1851)

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alma_materUniversity of Paris

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.

Biography

Rodrigues was born into a well-to-do Sephardi Jewish family in Bordeaux. His family was of Portuguese-Jewish descent. He was awarded a doctorate in mathematics on 28 June 1815 by the University of Paris. His dissertation contains the result now called Rodrigues' formula.

After graduation, Rodrigues became a banker. A close associate of the Comte de Saint-Simon, Rodrigues continued, after Saint-Simon's death in 1825, to champion the older man's socialist ideals, a school of thought that came to be known as Saint-Simonianism. During this period, Rodrigues published writings on politics, social reform, and banking.

Rodrigues' 1840 paper developed new results on transformation groups. It uses three numbers to parameterize the entries of a rotation matrix using only rational functions. When converted to four parameters, this representation is equivalent to a unit quaternion, and describes the axis and angle of a rotation. In addition, he applied spherical trigonometry to relate changes in rotation axis and angle due to the composition of two rotations. This formula is a precursor to the quaternion product of William Rowan Hamilton. In 1846, Arthur Cayley acknowledged Euler's and Rodrigues' priority describing orthogonal transformations.

Rodrigues is credited as originating the idea of the artist as an avant-garde.

Publications

References

Bibliography

  • Louis Gabriel Michaud (1863) Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne
  • Jeremy J. Gray (1980) Olinde Rodrigues' paper of 1840 on Transformation Groups, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 21(4): 375–385, .

References

  1. "?".
  2. Marbach, Christian. (2016-06-01). "Olinde Rodrigues vu par Emmanuel Grison". Bulletin de la SABIX.
  3. Eckalbar, John C.. (1979). "The Saint-Simonians in Industry and Economic Development". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
  4. Pilbeam, Pamela. (2013). "Saint-Simonians in Nineteenth-Century France".
  5. Saint-Simon, Henri. (2013-08-01). "Œuvres complètes (4 volumes sous coffret): Introduction, notes et commentaires sous la direction de Pierre Musso". Humensis.
  6. Bernon, Thomas. (2018-12-13). "La science des races : la Société Ethnologique de Paris et le tournant colonial (1839-1848)". La Révolution française. Cahiers de l'Institut d'histoire de la Révolution française.
  7. Altmann and Ortiz(2005), p. 12
  8. Rodrigues, Olinde. (1816). "Mémoire sur l'attraction des sphéroïdes". Correspondence Sur l'École Impériale Polytechnique.
  9. Olinde Rodrigues (1840) [https://archive.org/details/s1journaldemat05liou/page/380/ "Des lois géométriques qui régissent les déplacements d'un système solide dans l'espace, et de la variation des coordonnées provenant de ces déplacements considérés indépendamment des causes qui peuvent les produire"] (On the geometrical laws that govern the displacements of a solid system in space, and on the change of coordinates resulting from these displacements considered independently of the causes that can produce them), ''[[Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées]]'', vol. 5, pages 380-440.
  10. Friedberg, Richard M.. (2022). "Rodrigues, Olinde: "Des lois géométriques qui régissent les déplacements d'un système solide...", translation and commentary".
  11. [[John Horton Conway. John H. Conway]], Derek A. Smith (2003) ''On Quaternions and Octonions: Their Geometry, Arithmetic, and Symmetry'', AK Peters {{ISBN. 1-56881-134-9, p. 9
  12. [[Arthur Cayley]] (1846) "Sur Quelques Proprietes des Determinants Gauches", [[Crelle's Journal]] 32: 119–23, and ''Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley'', volume 1, page 335
  13. (1997). "The struggle for utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946". University of Chicago Press.
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