1. Цитаты
  2. Авторы
  3. Дюпен, Пьер-Шарль-Франсуа

Дюпен, Пьер-Шарль-Франсуа цитаты

Пьер-Шарль-Франсуа Дюпен — французский математик и экономист.

По окончании в 1803 г. курса в политехнической школе, вышел в морские инженеры. Первой и наиболее выдающейся его работой по математике был мемуар, представленный академии в 1813 г., «Développement de géométrie pour faire suite à la géométrie pratique de Monge»; он предложил при рассмотрении вопросов о кривизне поверхностей пользоваться свойствами некоторой кривой, которую он назвал индикатрисой, что привело ко многим значительным упрощениям и новым выводам. Здесь же он доказал и теорему о пересечении систем взаимно перпендикулярных поверхностей по так называемым «линиям кривизны». За эту работу был избран в 1818 г. членом Французской академии наук.

Однако, в дальнейшем он посвятил себя главным образом статистическим и экономическим исследованиям и приложениям математики к промышленным целям. Так, в 1820—1824 гг. он издал «Voyage en Grande Bretagne de 1816—19», в котором изложил собственные исследования о торговле и промышленности Англии, а в 1825—27 гг. напечатал «Géométrie et mécanique des arts et des métiers et des beaux arts» и т. д.

Был профессором в «Conservatoire des Arts et des Métiers». Почетный член Петербургской академии наук c 20.12.1826.

Неоднократно заседал в законодательных собраниях; недолго состоял морским министром . При Наполеоне III был сенатором. Как экономист выступал сторонником протекционизма.

При обширных способностях и трудолюбии Дюпен не оставил после себя вследствие разбросанности в своих занятиях каких-либо прочных следов, кроме указанной выше работы по геометрии. В 1822 г. издал книгу под заглавием «Applications de géométrie et de mécanique à la marine, aux ponts et chaussées, etc. », в которой, между прочим, изложена геометрическая теория устойчивости равновесия плавающих тел, представляющая образцовое произведение по простоте и ясности; до начала XX века никому не удалось дать теорию устойчивости плавающих тел в более простом виде, чем у Дюпена. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Октябрь 1784 – 18. Январь 1873
Дюпен, Пьер-Шарль-Франсуа фото
Дюпен, Пьер-Шарль-Франсуа: 7   цитат 0   Нравится

Дюпен, Пьер-Шарль-Франсуа: Цитаты на английском языке

“The successes obtained in the government of the arts, are similar to the successes obtained in the government of men.”

Help us translate this quote
Charles Dupin

Источник: The Commercial Power of Great Britain, 1925, p. xxxi ; Highlighted section cited in: Joel Mokyr. The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850. 2011. p. 237
Контексте: The successes obtained in the government of the arts, are similar to the successes obtained in the government of men. We may succeed for a time, by fraud, by surprise, by violence: we can succeed permanently only by means directly opposite. It is not alone the courage, the intelligence, the activity of the manufacturer and the merchant which maintain the superiority of the productions and the commerce of their country; it is far more their wisdom, their economy, above all their probity.

“It is to the director of workshops and factories that it is suitable to make, by means of geometry and applied mechanics, a special study of all the ways to economize the efforts of workers… For a man to be a director of others, manual work has only a secondary importance; it is his intellectual ability (force intellectuelle) that must put him in the top position, and it is in instruction such as that of the Conservatory of the Arts and Professions, that he must develop it.”

Help us translate this quote
Charles Dupin

Charles Dupin (1826), Geometrie et Mechanique des Arts et Metiers et des Beaux Arts Paris: Bachelier; Cited and translated by John Hoaglund, "Management Before Frederick Taylor," p. 30.; and cited in Wren & Bedeian (2005, 74)

“If ever, in the British Islands, the useful citizen should lose these virtues, we may be sure, that for England as well as for any other country, notwithstanding the protection of the most formidable navy, notwithstanding the foresight and activity of diplomacy the most extended, and of political science the most profound, the vessels of a degenerate commerce, repulsed from every shore would speedily disappear from those seas whose surface they now cover with the treasures of the universe, bartered for the treasures of the industry of the three kingdoms.”

Help us translate this quote
Charles Dupin

Источник: The Commercial Power of Great Britain, 1925, p. xxxi; cited in: The Westminster Review https://books.google.nl/books?id=ByA6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA339, Volume 4. Oct 1825. p. 340

“I found myself obliged, through perhaps unique circumstances, to devote myself to my mathematical research, almost without help, advice or even books… Endlessly occupied by a thousand different matters and constrained my state duties, it is the work of an engineer that I herewith present and not the fruit of the meditations of a savant.”

Help us translate this quote
Charles Dupin

Charles Dupin (1808) in: Hacette (1813; 86-87); as cited in Margaret Bradley, Charles Dupin (1784-1873) and His Influence on France, Cambria Press. p. 69

“This is what it behoves us to know: as Frenchmen, for the advantage of France; as friends of all humanity, by that just and generous sentiment which makes us feel interest in the dignity, the peace, the independence, the happiness of all nations, on whatever spot of the globe nature may have placed their country.”

Help us translate this quote
Charles Dupin

Источник: The Commercial Power of Great Britain, 1925, p. xi

“For 12 years I have had the honor of teaching geometry and mechanics applied to the arts, in favor of the industrial class… on the most important questions to the well-being, education, and morality of the workers, to the progress of national industry, to the development of all means of prosperity that work can produce for the splendor and happiness of our country.”

Help us translate this quote
Charles Dupin

Charles Dupin (1831), Discours sur le Sort des Ouvriers [Discourse on the Condition of the Workers] Paris: Bachelier Librairie. p. 1. ; Translation Wren & Bedeian (2005, 73)

“In the following work, I have endeavoured to exhibit the full extent of the Military and Naval Forces which the government of Great Britain can bring into the field, or launch upon the ocean. I have likewise described the connection of these forces with the government of the country, and also the discipline usually exercised in order to produce a hardihood in battle, invulnerable to fear and unassailable by cowardice. My observations on these subjects were derived from a residence of five years in England; during which time I was constantly employed in visiting and viewing every object and institution worthy of notice relative to the British Army and Navy.”

Help us translate this quote
Charles Dupin

Источник: A Tour Through the Naval and Military Establishments of Great Britain, 1822, p. iii; Introduction, lead paragraph