Étienne Bézout

Étienne Bézout (French: [bezu]; 31 March 1730 – 27 September 1783) was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Avon (near Fontainebleau), France.

Étienne Bézout
Born	(1730-03-31)31 March 1730 Nemours, Seine-et-Marne
Died	27 September 1783(1783-09-27) (aged 53) Avon, Île-de-France
Nationality	French
Known for	Bézout's theorem Bézout's identity Bézout matrix Bézout domain
Parents	Pierre Bézout (father) Jeanne-Hélène Filz (mother)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	French Academy of Sciences

Work

In 1758 Bézout was elected an adjoint in mechanics of the French Academy of Sciences. Besides numerous minor works, he 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 the general theory.

Publications

Cours de mathématiques, à l'usage du corps de l'artillerie, 1798

• Cours de mathématiques, a l'usage du corps de l'artillerie (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: Tilliard. 1798.

Legacy

After his death, a statue was erected in his birth town, Nemours, to commemorate his achievements.^[1]

In 2000, the minor planet 17285 Bezout was named after him.^[2]

See also

• Little Bézout's theorem
• Bézout's theorem
• Bézout's identity
• Bézout matrix
• Bézout domain