Article: Dupin, Pierre-Charles-François

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Dupin, Pierre-Charles-Fran ç ois

( b . Varzy, France, 6 October 1784; d . Paris, France, 18 January 1873)

mathematics, economics, education .

Dupin grew up in his native Nivernais, where his father, Charles-Andr é Dupin, was a lawyer and legislator. His mother was Cath é rine Agn è s Dupin (her maiden name was also Dupin). The second of three sons, Dupin graduated in 1803 from the É cole Polytechnique in Paris as a naval engineer. In 1801, under the guidance of his teacher Gaspard Monge, he had made his first discovery, the cyclid (of Dupin). After assignments in Antwerp, Genoa, and Toulon, he was placed in charge of the damaged naval arsenal on Corfu in 1807. He restored ...

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