Barbier

Joseph Émile Barbier

Born: 18 March 1839 in St Hilaire-Cotter, Pas-de-Calais, France
 Died: 28 Jan 1889 in St Genest, Loire, France

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Barbier was offered a post at the Paris Observatory by Le Verrier but he left after a few years. Nothing more was heard of him until he was discovered in an asylum in 1880.

Bertrand encouraged Barbier to return to scientific writing and, although he never recovered his sanity, he wrote many excellent and original mathematical papers. He wrote on probability, polyhedra, integral calculus and number theory.

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