Theodore Olivier

Theodore Olivier (January 21st 1793, Lyon - August 5th 1853) was a Mathématicien French.

Theodore Olivier is first of all raises Polytechnic school, where it is largely influenced by Monge. He makes then the School of artillery of Metz. Specialist in descriptive geometry, it leaves for Sweden 1821 to 1825 to create a military academy of high ranking. Of return to Paris, it is very critical on the orientations which the Polytechnic school took. It joins then in 1828 the project of Alphonse Lavallée, which aims at creating a forming establishment of the civil engineers, and is thus one of the first professors of the central École of arts and manufactures with Paris, where it teaches as of the opening (1829). It is then named professor with the Conservatoire national of arts and trades (1839) with the pulpit of descriptive Geometry.

Its specialities were the descriptive geometry and mechanics. Theodore Olivier is in particular known for his models manufactured in life size of geometrical forms, series of gears, gear cutter, mathematical model, which is at the same time objects of research and models teaching. Some of these models left to the United States after its death.

He devoted most of his life to the study and the calculation of the gears and publishes in 1842 the " Geometrical theory of the gears intended to transmit the rotation movement between two axes not located in same a plan".

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