Gabriel Cramer

See also: Cramer

Gabriel Cramer , born the July 31st 1704 with Geneva and dead the January 4th 1752, is a Mathématicien Suisse.

The work by which it is the best known one is its treaty on the algebraic Courbes published in 1750; it contains the oldest demonstration that a curve of N - ième degree is determined by

N (N + 3) /2 points

on it, in general Position. It published elder work of both Bernoulli; he wrote on the physical cause of the spheroid form of the Planet S, on the movement of their Apside S (1730) and on the treatment of Newton of the cubic curved (1746). He was professor in Geneva, and died in Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Gabriel Cramer became member of the Royal Society the February 9th 1749.

See too

  • Rule of Cramer

Source

  • Adapté has Account Shorts off the History off Mathematics by W.W. Rouse Ball (4th edition, 1908).

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