Louis Poinsot (French pronunciation: [lwi pwɛ̃so]; 3 January 1777 – 5 December 1859) was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor...

In geometry, a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron is any of four regular star polyhedra. They may be obtained by stellating the regular convex dodecahedron and...

effect had been known for at least 150 years, having been described by Louis Poinsot in 1834. The theorem describes the following effect: rotation of an...

In classical mechanics, Poinsot's construction (after Louis Poinsot) is a geometrical method for visualizing the torque-free motion of a rotating rigid...

the hyperbolic secant. They are named after the French mathematician Louis Poinsot. Mathematics portal Cotes's spiral – Plane curve Lawrence, J. Dennis...

Cauchy created many enemies in scientific circles. In November 1815, Louis Poinsot, who was an associate professor at the École Polytechnique, asked to...

polyhedra (the Platonic solids), and four regular star polyhedra (the Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra), making nine regular polyhedra in all. In addition, there are...

vertex. The discovery of the great dodecahedron is sometimes credited to Louis Poinsot in 1810, though there is a drawing of something very similar to a great...

this, he summarized and extended the work of his predecessors 1803 - Louis Poinsot develops idea of angular momentum conservation (this result was previously...

Poinsot is a worn lunar impact crater that is located at the northern part of the Moon on the far side. It lies to the south of the walled plain Rozhdestvenskiy...