Bossut, Charles

Bossut, Charles, mathematician, born at Tartaras, near Lyons, 11th August 1730, was furthered in his early studies by Clairaut and D'Alembert, and was, from 1752 till the Revolution, professor at Mézières, and under the empire in the Polytechnic Schools at Paris, where he died, 14th January 1814. In the compulsory retirement that followed the Revolution he wrote his famous Essai sur l'Histoire Générale des Mathématiques. He edited Pascal's works (5 vols. 1779).