Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
1822–1900
French mathematician. Doctorate in mathematics, École polytechnique, Paris, 1839. Professor of elementary mathematics, Collège Saint-Louis, 1841–8. Tutor in analysis at the École polytechnique, 1844; professor, 1856–95. Permanent secretary, Académie des sciences, 1874. Worked in several areas including the theory of curved surfaces, probability, and the theory of errors.
Source
Complete dictionary of scientific biography
Bibliography
Complete dictionary of scientific biography. By Charles Coulston Gillispie, Frederic Lawrence Holmes, and Noretta Koertge. Electronic publication. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 2008.
letter
