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Louis Puissant

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French mathematician

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According to Wikipedia, Louis Puissant was a French topographical engineer, geodesist, and mathematician. He was appointed an officer in the corps of topographical engineers of l'armée des Pyrénées occidentales in 1792 and then a professor in l’école centrale d'Agen in 1796. From October 1802 to August 1803, he was in charge of geodesic triangulations on the island of Elba and then in 1803–1804 in Lombardy. He was elected a member of l'Société Philomathique de Paris in 1810 and a member of l'Académie des sciences in 1828.

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