Charles-Eugène Delaunay
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Charles-Eugène Delaunay (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 9 April 1816 – 5 August 1872) was a French astronomer and mathematician. His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both the theory of planetary motion and mathematics.[1]
Life
Born in Lusigny-sur-Barse, France, to Jacques-Hubert Delaunay and Catherine Choiselat,[2] Delaunay studied under Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Sorbonne. He worked on the mechanics of the Moon as a special case of the three-body problem. He published two volumes on the topic, each of 900 pages in length, in 1860 and 1867. The work hints at chaos in the system, and clearly demonstrates the problem of so-called "small denominators" in perturbation theory. His infinite series expression for finding the position of the Moon converged too slowly to be of practical use but was a catalyst in the development of functional analysis[3] and computer algebra.[4]
Delaunay became director of the Paris Observatory in 1870 but drowned in a boating accident near Cherbourg, France, two years later.[3] He was followed by Jean Claude Bouquet at the Academy. Peter Guthrie Tait in his book An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions edition 1867 on page 244 named Didonia in honour of Delaunay.
Honours
- Member of the Académie des Sciences, (1855)[5]
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, (1870)[6]
- His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
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By Delaunay
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About Delaunay
- [Anon.] (2001) "Delaunay, Charles-Eugène", Encyclopædia Britannica, Deluxe edition CD-ROM
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- Some of Delaunay's works are digitalized on Paris Observatory digital library.
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- École Polytechnique alumni
- Mines Paris - PSL alumni
- Corps des mines
- 19th-century French astronomers
- 19th-century French mathematicians
- Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 1816 births
- 1872 deaths
- Foreign members of the Royal Society
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Boating accident deaths
- Accidental deaths in France