LAZARE CARNOT

BIRTH AND DEATH

Birth: 5/13/1753     Death: 8/2/1823

OCCUPATION

scientist

BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY

Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot was a French mathematician, physicist, military officer, politician and a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution. His military reforms, which included the introduction of mass conscription, were instrumental in transforming the French Revolutionary Army into an effective fighting force.

NOTABLE WORK

Carnot's theorem

WHY THEY MATTER

Lazare Carnot was intellectually unique for his multidisciplinary talents as a mathematician, physicist, military strategist, and politician. His groundbreaking military reforms and strategic thinking during the French Revolution revolutionized the effectiveness of the French Revolutionary Army through the introduction of mass conscription and innovative tactics. Carnot's ability to apply scientific principles to military strategy exemplified his intellectual prowess and innovative approach to warfare.

FAMOUS QUOTE

As result a new kind of theory to be applied on a class of motions ... these geometric motions are that which acquire different parts of a system of bodies, without neither perturb themselves nor the other and consequently these motions do not depend of the action or reaction among the bodies, but only upon the conditions of their connections, and thus being determined only by geometry and not dependent of the rules of dynamics.On geomatric motion.A History of the Work Concept: From Physics to Economics, by Agamenon Oliveira, p. 154.

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