Étienne Bézout (March 31, 1730 - September 27, 1783) was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Basses-Loges (near Fontainbleau), France. March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ... Events Pope Clement XII elected September 17 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed III (1703-1730) to Mahmud I (1730-1754) Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina Births May 13 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... 1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... Seine-et-Marne is a French département, named after the Seine and the Marne rivers, and located in the Île-de-France région. ... Fontainebleau is a city and commune about 50 km south of Paris, France. ...

Besides numerous minor works, wrote a Théorie générale des équations algébriques, published at Paris in 1779, which in particular contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation: he used determinants in a paper in the Histoire de l'académie royale, 1764, but did not treat of the general theory. In algebraic geometry, elimination theory is the classical name for algorithmic approaches to eliminating between polynomials of several variables. ... In linear algebra, the determinant is a function that associates a scalar det(A) to every square matrix A. The fundamental geometric meaning of the determinant is as the scale factor for volume when A is regarded as a linear transformation. ...

See Also

• Bézout's theorem
• Bézout's identity

This article refers to Bézouts theorem in algebraic geometry. ... In number theory, Bézouts identity, named after Étienne Bézout, is a linear diophantine equation. ...

External Links

• Biography (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bezout.html) at the MacTutor archive

The MacTutor history of mathematics archive is a website hosted by University of St Andrews in Scotland. ...

Reference

• The original version of this article was taken from the public domain Rouse History of Mathematics