Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)

Étienne Bézout (French: [bezu]; 31 March 1730 – 27 September 1783) was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Avon (near Fontainebleau), France.

In 1758 Bézout was elected an adjoint in mechanics of the French Academy of Sciences. Besides numerous minor works, he wrote Théorie générale des équations algébriques, published at Paris in 1779, which in particular contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.

Bézout used determinants in a paper in the Histoire de l'académie royaled, 1764, but did not treat the general theory.

He is known for:

• Bézout's theorem
• Bézout's identity
• Bézout matrix
• Bézout domain

References:

• The original version of this article was taken from the public domain Rouse History of Mathematics
• Grabiner, Judith (1970–80). "Bezout, Etienne". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 111–114. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Mathematician
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Mathematician (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)

External links:

• Étienne Bézout @ Wikipedia