Louis Poinsot
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Louis Poinsot was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force a
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Théorie nouvelle de la rotation des corps (1852)
The grave of Louis Poinsot, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Théorie nouvelle de la rotation des corps (1852)
Tennis racket theorem
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The tennis racket theorem, or intermediate axis theorem, is a kinetic phenomenon of classical mechanics which describes the movement of a rigid body with three distinct principal moments of inertia. I
Louis Poinsot
…Died 5 December 1859 (aged 82) Alma mater École Polytechnique École des Ponts et Chaussées Known for Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron Poinsot's ellipsoid tennis racket theorem Scientific career Institutions Lycée Bonaparte Imperial University of France Louis Poinsot (French pronunciation: ; 3 January 1777 – 5 December 1859…
Title page of "Théorie Nouvelle de la Rotation des Corps", 1852 printing