Eiffel Tower

Mathematicians commemorated on the Eiffel Tower

When Gustave Eiffel built his famous Parisian tower, he included the names of 72 prominent French scientists on plaques around the first stage. Those who are in our archive are listed below.

Click on the name below to go to the biography.

Ampère
Arago
Borda
Carnot
Cauchy
Chasles
Clapeyron
Coriolis
Coulomb
De Prony

Delambre
Delaunay
Foucault
Fourier
Fresnel
Lagrange
Lalande
Lamé
Laplace
Le Verrier

Legendre
Malus
Monge
Morin
Navier
Poinsot
Poisson
Poncelet
Sturm

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The full list of the 72 commemorated is part of the Eiffel Tower web site.

Index of Societies, honours, etc.
Welcome page	Biographies Index
History Topics Index	Famous curves index
Chronology	Time lines
Mathematicians of the day	Anniversaries for the year
Search Form	Birthplace Maps

JOC/EFR September 2007

The URL of this page is:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Societies/Eiffel.html