Louis Poinsot (French pronunciation: [lwi pwɛ̃so]; 3 January 1777 – 5 December 1859) was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor... 9 KB (1,145 words) - 03:29, 18 April 2024 |
In geometry, a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron is any of four regular star polyhedra. They may be obtained by stellating the regular convex dodecahedron and... 31 KB (2,297 words) - 00:16, 11 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (2,649 words) - 16:19, 1 May 2024 |
the hyperbolic secant. They are named after the French mathematician Louis Poinsot. Mathematics portal Cotes's spiral – Plane curve Lawrence, J. Dennis... 1 KB (84 words) - 21:02, 1 April 2023 |
In classical mechanics, Poinsot's construction (after Louis Poinsot) is a geometrical method for visualizing the torque-free motion of a rotating rigid... 13 KB (2,090 words) - 02:12, 18 October 2023 |
this, he summarized and extended the work of his predecessors 1803 - Louis Poinsot develops idea of angular momentum conservation (this result was previously... 16 KB (1,933 words) - 16:00, 22 April 2024 |
Cauchy created many enemies in scientific circles. In November 1815, Louis Poinsot, who was an associate professor at the École Polytechnique, asked to... 42 KB (5,414 words) - 16:50, 24 April 2024 |
Great dodecahedron (category Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra) 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... 5 KB (381 words) - 06:19, 14 February 2024 |
Regular polyhedron (section Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra) polyhedra (the Platonic solids), and four regular star polyhedra (the Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra), making nine regular polyhedra in all. In addition, there are... 32 KB (3,118 words) - 14:26, 10 April 2024 |