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Liouville

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[lyoo-veel, lee-oo-vil] / lyuˈvil, ˌli uˈvɪl /

noun

  1. Joseph 1809–82, French mathematician.


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Without doubt a mistake of the scribe for "Liouville."

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

His letter to Liouville of date October 8, 1845, certainly reads as if he claimed the geometrical transformation as well as the application to electricity.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

He was investigated by Arago, Sturm, Cauchy, and Liouville, for the Acad�mie des Sciences, and a report was written by Cauchy.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene

I do not suppose that, in the scientific world, any one will he disposed to blame me for having preferred M. Liouville to M. de Pontécoulant.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert

In the commencement of 1845 Thomson told Liouville of the method of Electric Images which he had discovered for the solution of problems of electric distribution.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

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