Sylvestre François Lacroix [SEP] place of death
Sylvestre François Lacroix
Sylvestre François Lacroix (28 April 1765, Paris24 May 1843, Paris) was a French mathematician.
Life.
He was born in Paris, and was raised in a poor family who still managed to obtain a good education for their son. Lacroix's path to mathematics started with the novel Robinson Crusoe. That gave him an interest in sailing and thus navigation too. At that point geometry captured his interest and the rest of mathematics followed. He had courses with Antoine-René Mauduit at College
did go back to serve in the army. In October 1797 he went to Colmar to become professor of mathematics at the École Centrale du Haut-Rhin.
Than in September 1803, he moved to Mainz to be a High School Math teacher, He taught at the artillery school in Mainz.
He did not publish his 1795 dissertation on partial differential equations , from the Académie des Sciences but his papers were used by Sylvestre François Lacroix after François Français’ death. François Français worked and wrote closely with several important mathematicians