Olinde Rodrigues

Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues
Born(1795-10-06)6 October 1795
Bordeaux, France
Died17 December 1851(1851-12-17) (aged 56)
Paris, France
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Scientific career
ThesisMouvement de rotation d'un corps de révolution pesant (1815)

Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues (6 October 1795 – 17 December 1851), more commonly known as Olinde Rodrigues, was a French banker, mathematician, and social reformer. In mathematics Rodrigues is remembered for Rodrigues' rotation formula for vectors, the Rodrigues formula for the Legendre polynomials, and the Euler–Rodrigues parameters.

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