Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1786)

Jacques Philippe Marie Binet

French mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1786-1856)

Jacques Philippe Marie Binet was a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer born in Rennes; he died in Paris, France, in 1856. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra which would later lead to important…