Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues (6 October 1795 – 17 December 1851), more commonly known as Olinde Rodrigues, was a French banker, mathematician, and social reformer. In mathematics Rodrigues is remembered for Rodrigues' rotation formula for vectors, the Rodrigues formula for the Legendre polynomials, and the Euler–Rodrigues parameters.
Benjamin OlindeRodrigues (6 October 1795 – 17 December 1851), more commonly known as OlindeRodrigues, was a French banker, mathematician, and social...
Olinde is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: OlindeRodrigues (1795–1851), French banker and social reformer Louis...
and their applications to rotations were first described in print by OlindeRodrigues in all but name in 1840, but independently discovered by Irish mathematician...
precursors to this work included Euler's four-square identity (1748) and OlindeRodrigues' parameterization of general rotations by four parameters (1840), but...
{d^{n}}{dx^{n}}}\left(W(x)[Q(x)]^{n}\right).} This is known as Rodrigues' formula, after OlindeRodrigues. It is often written P n ( x ) = 1 e n W ( x ) d n d...
influential entrepreneurs in the XIX century, Benjamin OlindeRodrigues (famous for Rodrigues' rotation formula), Eugène Péreire (founder of Banque Transatlantique)...
fact, however, the formula goes back to OlindeRodrigues (1840), replete with half-angle: Rodrigues, Olinde (1840). "Des lois géometriques qui regissent...
Rotation (mathematics) Spin group Slerp, spherical linear interpolation OlindeRodrigues William Rowan Hamilton Shoemake, Ken (1985). "Animating Rotation with...
II of England (1367–1400), king Pierre Rode (1774–1830), violinist OlindeRodrigues (1795–1851), mathematician, banker and social reformer Marie-Sabine...
quaternions in 1843.: 210 Among much prior related work, in 1840 Benjamin OlindeRodrigues had reached a result that amounted to their discovery in all but name...
probability theory Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), Polish-born mathematician OlindeRodrigues (1795–1851), mathematician and social reformer Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002)...
Castro – one of the most important empresarios of the Republic of Texas OlindeRodrigues – French banker, mathematician, and social reformer Isaac Mendes Belisario –...
la vie et contre l'incendie, a Paris insurance company. He joined OlindeRodrigues to form a committee to watch over and control the operations of the...