Athanase Dupré

Athanase Louis Victoire Dupré ( born December 28, 1808 † August 10, 1869 ) was a French mathematician and physicist.

Athanase Dupré received his education at the Collège in Auxerre and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and then taught until 1847 at the Collège Royal in Rennes. In that year he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Rennes and in 1866 he became Dean of the Faculté des Sciences.

He worked on number theory and in the 1860s with thermodynamics; He coined the textbook Théorie mécanique de la chaleur (1869 ), which contributed significantly to the spread of this then new field of knowledge in France. Together with his son, Paul Dupré experimentalists he examined the capillary forces and surface tension of liquids. This work led also to a formulation of the Young's equation, which is known as the Young- Dupré equation today.

External links and sources

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson: Athanase Dupré. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (English)

• Mathematicians (19th Century )
• Physicist (19th Century )
• Frenchman
• Born in 1808
• Died in 1869
• Man