Italian mathematician | EMS Prize (2012), Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems (2020), Whitehead Prize (2013), Philip Leverhulme Prize (2014) | Princeton
Louis Poinsot
- Paris: January 3, 1777 celebration
- Paris: December 5, 1859 celebration


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Paris: January 3, 1777 -
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Paris: December 5, 1859 -
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- analytical mechanics
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- Auguste Comte
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- École des Ponts ParisTech
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
- École polytechnique
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- Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1858)
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (1846)
- 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
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- tennis racket theorem
- Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron
- Poinsot's ellipsoid
- French mathematician and physicist (1777-1859) | Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1858), Officer of the Legion of Honour (1846), 72 names on the Eiffel Tower