Gaspard de Prony, in full Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony, was a French mathematician and engineer who worked on hydraulics, born at Chamelet in Beaujolais in 1755 and dying at Asnières-sur-Seine in 1839. He served as Engineer-in-Chief of the École nationale des ponts et chaussées in Paris. From 1791 he undertook the production of vast logarithmic and trigonometric tables for the French Cadastre, dividing the labour into three levels of workers in a way inspired by Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, with values calculated to between fourteen and twenty-nine decimal places. He was a member and eventually president of the French Academy of Sciences, was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1810, and is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
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was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics
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22 July 1755-29 July 1839
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He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France
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was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics
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Prony was a member, and eventually president, of the French Academy of Sciences.
Member Of: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Distinctions
He was also elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1810.
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