About Paul Barbarin
Lived 1855 – 1931 (aged 75). Paul Barbarin was a French mathematician and teacher.
Paul Jean Joseph Barbarin (20 October 1855, Tarbes – 28 September 1931) was a French mathematician, specializing in geometry.
Education and career Barbarin studied mathematics for a brief time at the École Polytechnique, but changed, at the age of 19, to the École Normale Supérieure, where he studied mathematics under Briot, Bouquet, Tannery, and Darboux. After graduation, Barbarin became a professor of mathematics at the Lyceum of Nice and then at the School of St.-Cyr of the Lyceum of Toulon. In 1891 he became a professor at the Lyceum of Bordeaux, where he taught for many years.
Athanase Papadopoulos edited and translated Lobachevsky's Pangéométrie ou Précis de géométrie fondée sur une théorie générale et rigoureuse des parallèles (Pangeometry) and provided a footnote concerning Barbarin:
Barbarin was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1928 in Bologna.
Selected publications Articles "Note sur le planimètre polaire." Nouvelles annales de mathématiques: journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale 19 (1880): 212–215. "Note sur les coordonnées bipolaires." Nouvelles annales de mathématiques: journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale 1 (1882): 15–28. Sur le droite de Simson. Mathesis 2 (1882) Part I, 106–108, Part II, 122–129. (See Robert Simson.) Note sur l'herpolhodie. Nouvelles annales de mathématiques: journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale 4 (1885): 538–556. Systèmes isogonaux du triangle. Association française pour l'avancement des sciences 2 (1896) 89–105. Triangles dont les bissectrices ont des longueurs données. Mathesis 16 (1896) 143–150. Une généralisation de théorème de Joachimstal Revue de mathématiques spéciales 4 (1897) 353–354. (See Ferdinand Joachimstal.) Constructions sphériques a la règle et au compas. Mathesis 19 (1899) Part I, 57–60, Part II, 81–85. On the Utility of Studying Non-Euclidean Geometry. The American Mathematical Monthly 8, no. 8/9 (1901) 161–163. (trans. by G. B. Halsted) Le cinquième livre de la Métagéométrie Mathesis 21 (1901) 177–191. Bilatères et trilatères en Metagéométrie Mathesis 22 (1902) 187–193. Les cosegments et les volumes en géométrie non euclidienne. Mémoires de la Société des sciences physiques et naturelles de Bordeaux, série 6, tome 2 (1902) 25–44. Polygones réguliers sphériques et non-euclidiens. Le matematiche pure ed applicate 2 (1902) 137–145. Calculs abrégés de sinus et cosinus circulaires ou hyperboliques Mémoires de la Société des sciences physiques et naturelles de Bordeaux, série 6, tome 2 (1904) 163–188.
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Who was Paul Barbarin?
French mathematician
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Paul Barbarin was born on 20 October 1855 in Tarbes.
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Paul Barbarin died on 28 September 1931.
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Paul Barbarin was a mathematician and teacher.
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· DBpedia: Paul Jean Joseph Barbarin
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