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See also:JEAN See also:NICOLAS See also:PIERRE See also:HACHETTE (1769-1834)
, See also:French mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Mezieres, where his See also:father was a bookseller, on the 6th of May 1769
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For his See also:early See also:education he proceeded first to the See also:college of See also:Charleville, and afterwards to that of See also:Reims. in 1788 he returned to Mezieres, where he was attached to the school of See also:engineering as draughtsman to the professors of physics and See also:chemistry
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In 1793 he became See also:professor of See also:hydrography at Collioure and See also:Port-Vendre
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While there he sent several papers, in which some questions of See also:navigation were treated geometrically, to Gaspard See also:Monge, at that See also:time See also:minister of marine, through whose See also:influence he obtained an See also:appointment in See also:Paris
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Towards the See also:close of 1794, when the Ecole Polytechnique was established, he was appointed along with Monge over the See also:department of descriptive See also:geometry
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There he instructed some of the ablest Frenchmen of the See also:day, among them S
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See also:Poisson, F
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See also:Arago and A
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See also:Fresnel
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Accompanying Guyton de Morveau in his expedition, earlier in the See also:year, he was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Fleurus, and entered See also:Brussels with the French See also:army
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In 1816, on the See also:accession of See also:
He retained, however, till his See also:death the See also:office of professor in the See also:faculty of sciences in the Ecole Normale, to which he had been appointed in 181o
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The necessary royal assent was in 1823 refused to the See also:election of See also:Hachette to the Academie See also:des Sciences, and it was not till 1831, after the Revolution, that he obtained that See also:honour
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He died at Paris on the 16th of See also:January 1834
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Hachette was held in high esteem for his private See also:worth, as well as for his scientific attainments and See also:great public services
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His labours were chiefly in the See also: N . P . Hachette (Bruxelles, 1836) . |
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