Amedee Mannheim
Amedee Mannheim · Science & Medicine
Geometry; developed the modern slide rule
1831, Paris, France — 1906, Paris, France
France
Amedee Mannheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Geometry; developed the modern slide rule
Mannheim was a French mathematician and army officer who developed the modern slide rule, standardizing in 1859 the arrangement of scales (including the cursor) that made the instrument a practical everyday calculating tool for generations of engineers. He also contributed to projective and kinematic geometry. He was Jewish.
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Geometry; developed the modern slide rule
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
