Editing Étienne Bézout

{{Short description|French mathematician (1730–1783)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Étienne Bézout
| image             = Etienne Bezout2.jpg
| image_size        = 200px
| caption           = 
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1730|03|31|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Nemours]], [[Seine-et-Marne]]
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1783|09|27|1730|03|31|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Avon, Seine-et-Marne|Avon]], [[Île-de-France (region)|Île-de-France]]
| nationality       = French
| fields            = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces        = [[French Academy of Sciences]]
| alma_mater        = 
| doctoral_advisor  = 
| doctoral_students = 
| known_for         = [[Bézout's theorem]]<br/>[[Bézout's identity]]<br/>[[Bézout matrix]]<br/>[[Bézout domain]]
| awards            = 
| father            = Pierre Bézout
| mother            = Jeanne-Hélène Filz
}}
'''Étienne Bézout''' ({{IPA|fr|bezu|lang}}; 31 March 1730 – 27 September 1783) was a [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] who was born in [[Nemours]], [[Seine-et-Marne]], [[France]],  and died in [[Avon, Seine-et-Marne|Avon]] (near [[Fontainebleau]]), France.

==Work==
In 1758 Bézout was elected an adjoint in mechanics of the [[French Academy of Sciences]]. Besides numerous minor works, he wrote a ''Théorie générale des équations algébriques'', published at [[Paris]] in 1779, which in particular contained much new and valuable matter on the [[elimination theory|theory of elimination]] and symmetrical functions of the [[root of an equation|roots of an equation]]: he used [[determinant]]s in a paper in the ''Histoire de l'académie royale'', 1764, but did not treat the general theory.

=== Publications ===
[[File:Bézout, Étienne – Cours de mathématiques, a l'usage du corps de l'artillerie, 1798 – BEIC 12049846.jpg|thumb|''Cours de mathématiques, à l'usage du corps de l'artillerie'', 1798]]

* {{Cite book|title=Cours de mathématiques, a l'usage du corps de l'artillerie|volume=3|publisher=Tilliard|location=Paris|year=1798|language=fr|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=12049846}}

==Legacy==
After his death, a statue was erected in his birth town, Nemours, to commemorate his achievements.<ref name="Mac">{{MacTutor Biography|id=Bezout}}</ref> 

In 2000, the [[minor planet]] [[Meanings of minor planet names: 17001–18000#285|17285 Bezout]] was named after him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=17285|title=(17285) Bezout|publisher=[[Minor Planet Center]]|website=minorplanetcenter.net| access-date=November 26, 2021}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Polynomial remainder theorem|Little Bézout's theorem]]
* [[Bézout's theorem]]
* [[Bézout's identity]]
* [[Bézout matrix]]
* [[Bézout domain]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*''The original version of this article was taken from the  [[public domain]] [[Rouse History of Mathematics]]''
*{{DSB
|first=Judith
|last=Grabiner
|title=Bezout, Etienne
|volume=2
|pages=111–114
}}

==External links==
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*{{MathGenealogy |id=142656 }}

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[[Category:People from Nemours]]
[[Category:18th-century French mathematicians]]
[[Category:Algebraists]]
[[Category:French number theorists]]
[[Category:French textbook writers]]
[[Category:Members of the French Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:Burials in Île-de-France]]


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