Biography of Gustave Gaspard Coriolis
Gustave Gaspard Coriolis (21/05/1792 – 19/09/1843), a French engineer, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1836). Since 1838 directed the studies in the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. Coriolis gave the final wording of the theory of relative motion by introducing the concept of the so-called Coriolis force and the Coriolis acceleration.
Also important were the work of Coriolis force on the calculation of the machines, collision of elastic spheres, etc. Op.: Traite de la mecanique des corps solides et du calcul de l'effet des machines, 2 ed., P., 1844; Sur les equations du mouvement relatif des systemes des corps, "Journal de l'Ecole polytecnnique", 1835, t. 15, cahier 24; in Russian. per .- The mathematical theory of phenomena snooker, M., 1956. Lit.: Freiman LS, the history of the proof Coriolis, "Tr. The Institute of History of Science and Technology, 1956. in. 10.