Joseph Alfred Serret (1819 to 1885) was a French mathematician, born in Paris and died in Versailles. His name is attached to the Frenet-Serret formulas on the derivatives of the tangent, normal and binormal vectors of a space curve, which he discovered independently in 1851, after Jean Frédéric Frenet had presented them in his 1847 thesis. Serret is also known for his textbooks published by Gauthier-Villars, among them a Traité de trigonométrie, a two volume Cours de calcul différentiel et intégral and a two volume Cours d'algèbre supérieure. The Wikipedia article on him is brief, so this entry records only the facts that the article and the article on the Frenet-Serret formulas state.
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was a French mathematician
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30 August 1819
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Serret did important work in differential geometry.
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The formulas are named after the two French mathematicians who independently discovered them: Jean Frédéric Frenet, in his thesis of 1847, and Joseph Alfred Serret, in 1851.
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The formulas are named after the two French mathematicians who independently discovered them: Jean Frédéric Frenet, in his thesis of 1847, and Joseph Alfred Serret, in 1851.
Principal Result: Frenet-Serret formulas, Lead, discoverers (Serret)
The formulas are named after the two French mathematicians who independently discovered them: Jean Frédéric Frenet, in his thesis of 1847, and Joseph Alfred Serret, in 1851.
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