Joseph Serret (born the August 30th 1819 with Paris, deceased the March 2nd 1885 with Versailles), is a Mathématicien and Astronome French, especially known for the formulas of differential Géométrie associated with the trihedral of Serret-Frenet.

It left the Polytechnic school in 1840 and became inspector with the entrance examination of this same school in 1848 and professor of algebra higher than the Faculty of Science of Paris this same year. Successor of Louis Poinsot with the Academy of Science (1860), professor of Celestial mechanics with the Collège de France (1861), it took the succession of Lefébure de Fourcy with the Sorbonne in 1863 and became member of the Bureau of longitudes in 1873.

As an academician, Serret ensured the edition of mathematical works of Gaspard Monge (1850) and of Joseph Louis Lagrange (as from 1867).