About Yvon Villarceau
Lived 1813 – 1883 (aged 70). Yvon Villarceau was a French astronomer, mathematician, engineer, geodesist, geographer and scientist.
Antoine-Joseph Yvon Villarceau (15 January 1813 – 23 December 1883) was a French astronomer, mathematician, and engineer.
He constructed an equatorial meridian-instrument and an isochronometric regulator for the Paris Observatory.
He wrote Mécanique Céleste. Expose des Méthodes de Wronski et Composantes des Forces Perturbatrices suivant les Axes Mobiles (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1881) and Sur l'établissement des arches de pont, envisagé au point de vue de la plus grande stabilité (Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1853).
He is the eponym of Villarceau circles, which are two circular sections of a torus other than the two trivial ones.
A short street in the 16th arrondissement of Paris is named after Villarceau.
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Who was Yvon Villarceau?
French astronomer and mathematician
When was Yvon Villarceau born?
Yvon Villarceau was born on 16 January 1813 in Vendôme.
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Yvon Villarceau died on 23 December 1883 in Paris.
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Yvon Villarceau was an astronomer, mathematician, engineer, geodesist, geographer and scientist.
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Yvon Villarceau was French.
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