Louis Poinsot

French mathematician and physicist

1777 CE to 1859 CE

Louis Poinsot (January 3, 1777 – December 5, 1859) is a French mathematician and physicist.

Poinsot is the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.

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