Amédée Mannheim
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim | |
---|---|
Born | Paris, France | 17 July 1831
Died | 11 December 1906 Paris, France | (aged 75)
Known for | Inventing modern slide rule |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim (17 July 1831 – 11 December 1906) was the inventor of the modern slide rule. Around 1850, he introduced a new scale system that used a runner to perform calculations. This type of slide rule became known under the name of its inventor: the Mannheim.
References
- Computer Museum, Kiel
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Amédée Mannheim", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
External links
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with CANTICN identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with Scopus identifiers
- Articles with ZBMATH identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with Trove identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1831 births
- 1906 deaths
- 19th-century French mathematicians
- 20th-century French mathematicians
- French Jews
- Jewish scientists