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Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil
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The Marquise du Châtelet, née Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1706 - 1749) French mathematician and physicist. The daughter of an important functionary in King Louis XIV's court, she was well-educated in languages, sciences, mathematics, arts and sports. Barely 20, she married the Marquis du Châtelet and bore him three children, possibly by other men. To educate her children, she wrote a textbook on physics and made a French translation of Isaac Newton's Philosophie naturalis principia mathematica that is still used
today. Her approximation $e \sim mv^2$ (the energy $e$ of a moving object is proportional to its mass $m$ times the square of its velocity $v$ ) presaged Einstein's equation $e = mc^2$ by a century and a half.
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- G. J. Tee ``Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet'' in Women of Mathematics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook L. Grinstein, P. Cambpell, ed.s New York: Greenwood Press (1987): 21 - 25
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Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet, Châtelet, Chatelet, Émilie Breteuil, Emilie Breteuil, Émilie du Châtelet, Emilie du Chatelet |
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Cross-references: equation, square, mass, object, approximation, Mathematica, translation, children, languages
This is version 4 of Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, born on 2007-02-15, modified 2007-02-19.
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| AMS MSC: | 01A50 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: 18th century) |
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