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New material, recording many of the advances made during the new century, were introduced throughout the text, which was rounded off by a long list of "Corrections and additions" and a splendid "Table of contents". In addition, the structure of the work was changed somewhat, especially the third
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is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind for that time. The extent of its circulation is not known and it may not have been very large...But it is as well known as any other treatise of its time, and certainly more worth reading than any other, especially for the emerging
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volume on series and differences. But the general impression is still that the main streams and directions of the calculus had been amplified and enriched, rather than changed in any substantial way.
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hired Lacroix to fill in for him as instructor of gentlemen at a Paris lycée. In 1787 he began to teach at École Royale Militaire de Paris and he married Marie Nicole Sophie Arcambal.
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captured his interest and the rest of mathematics followed. He had courses with Antoine-René Mauduit at College Royale de France and Joseph-Francois Marie at Collége Mazaine of
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He was born in Paris, and was raised in a poor family who still managed to obtain a good education for their son. Lacroix's path to mathematics started with the novel
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predicted that it "will make itself conspicuous by the choice of methods, their generality, and the rigor of the demonstrations." In hindsight
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It was the best of times and the worst of times: Lavoisier had opened inquiry into "new chemistry", a subject Lacroix studied with
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which provided a journal in which to communicate his findings. On the other hand, Paris was in the grip of the
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Traité élémentaire de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique, et d'application de l'algèbre à la géométrie
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In 1782 at the age of 17 he became an instructor in mathematics at the École de Gardes de la Marine in
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and the system of Écoles Centrales. In 1795 he taught at École Centrale des Quatres-Nations.
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Essais sur l'Enseignement en Général, et sur celui des Mathématiques en Particulier
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in mathematics. Translations of these books into the English language were used in
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Complément des Élémens d'algèbre, à l'usage de l'École Centrale des Quatre-Nations
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was published in three volumes in 1810, 1814, and 1819, Lacroix renewed the text:
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Revised and re-published several times; the 9th edition appeared in 1881.
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universities, and the books remained in circulation for nearly 50 years.
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Eléments de Géométrie à l'usage de l'École Centrale des Quatre-Nations
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Traité du Calcul Différentiel ed du Calcul Intégral, Premier Tome
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Lacroix was the author of at least 17 biographies contributed to
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Traité Élémentaire du Calcul Différentiel et du Calcul Intégral
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In 1809, he was admitted to Faculté des Sciences de Paris.
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During his career, he produced a number of important
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and the book was translated into English in 1816 by
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Traité du Calcul Différentiel et du Calcul Intégral
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Traité du Calcul Différentiel et du Calcul Intégral
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Traité du Calcul Différentiel et du Calcul Intégral
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Index

Sylvestre-François Lacroix

Mathematics
Gaspard Monge
mathematician

Robinson Crusoe
sailing
navigation
geometry
University of Paris
Pierre Charles Le Monnier
lunar theory
Gaspard Monge
Rochefort
Condorcet
Besançon
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Jean Henri Hassenfratz
Societe Philomatique de Paris
Reign of Terror
École Normale
Legendre
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
École Polytechnique
Louis Gabriel Michaud
Collège de France
textbooks
British
Babbage

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