| Chapter 1: | A Brief Introductory Survey of Dupin’s Life |
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the other by Charles Lévêque, a professor at the Collège de France, on behalf of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. The mathematician and Ecole polytechnique professor Joseph Bertrand paid homage to Dupin in an Eloge historique (In praise of Charles Dupin), which he read to the Academy of Sciences on 2 April 1873.
Thanks to the family of Hamel de Breuil, Dupin’s memory was kept alive (Perrin 1983, 19). This family carried out restoration work at Saizy, and one of Dupin’s grandsons created in 1920 the Charles Dupin prize at the Academy of Sciences, to reward the author of a book or paper on geometry, mechanics, or maritime navigation.7
I shall now proceed to examine in detail all of these varied aspects of Dupin’s life and contributions.