Paul Tannery, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Tannery

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1843

Place of Birth: Mantes-la-Jolie, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1904

Profession: engineer, mathematician, historian, translator, historian of mathematics, hellenist, philosophy historian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Paul Tannery (20 December 1843 – 27 November 1904) was a French mathematician and historian of mathematics.
He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter.
Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development.