Camille-Christophe Gerono
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Camille-Christophe Gerono (1799 in Paris, France – 1891 in Paris) was a French
mathematician
and co-editor of Nouvelles annales de mathématiques. He concerned himself above all with geometry
. The Lemniscate of Gerono
or figure-eight curve was named after him.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
and co-editor of Nouvelles annales de mathématiques. He concerned himself above all with geometry
Geometry
Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....
. The Lemniscate of Gerono
Lemniscate of Gerono
In algebraic geometry, the lemniscate of Gerono, or lemnicate of Huygens, or figure-eight curve, is a plane algebraic curve of degree four and genus zero shaped like an \infty symbol, or figure eight...
or figure-eight curve was named after him.