Re: [HM] Henri-Dominique Truel

Julio Gonzalez Cabillon (jgc@adinet.com.uy)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:01:46 -0300

At 11:37 AM 11/09/1998 +0100, Umberto Bottazzini wrote:
| Does anybody know the coordinates (birth and death) of Henri-Dominique
| Truel? He is mentioned by Cauchy as "a certain Henri-Dominique Truel"
| who apparently gave a geometrical interpretation of complex numbers.

And most probably this fact is the only thing known of Truel. According
to D.E. Smith "nothing is known of this man. His MSS. are lost".

Regards, Julio GC