Ignace-Louis-Alfred Le Cointe

Ignace-Louis-Alfred Le Cointe (14 September 1823 – 18 June 1893, sometimes called Alfred Lecointe) was a French mathematician, mathematics teacher, and Jesuit priest. He wrote textbooks about trigonometry and conic sections and a book of problems at the secondary level.

Life

Le Cointe was born 14 September 1823, in Nîmes, to a devout and illustrious family.[1] He had an early interest and aptitude for exact sciences, so was sent to Paris to attend the École Centrale at an unusually young age. In 1847, joined the Jesuit order, and was sent to study philosophy at the seminary in Vals. He taught mathematics in Vals, at the Collége Saint-Michel in Saint-Étienne, at the École Sainte-Marie in Toulouse, and at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse. He died in Toulouse.[2][3]

Bibliography

Books

  • Le Cointe, I.-L.-A. (1851), Développements relatifs à quelques théories accessibles à la géométrie élémentaire [Developments relating to some theories accessible to elementary geometry], Vals: Self published
  • ——— (1852), Programme d'un cours de mathématiques élémentaires [Program for an elementary mathematics course], Vals: Self published
  • ——— (1858), Leçons sur la théorie des fonctions circulaires et la trigonométrie [Lessons on the theory of circular functions and trigonometry], Paris: Mallet-Bachelier[4]
  • ——— (1864), Notions élementaires sur les courbes usuelles [Elementary notions about common curves], Paris: Gauthier-Villars
  • ——— (1865), Solutions développées de 300 problèmes qui ont été proposés dans les compositions mathématiques pour l'admission au grade de bachelier ès sciences dans diverses facultés de France, Paris: Gauthier-Villars

Papers

References

  1. ^ Boussac 1894 mentions among his relatives several naval officers including a counter admiral; and many nobles including counts, viscounts, and marquis; a university inspector, and a Carmelite nun. Boussac says that, in his humility, Le Cointe rarely mentioned them.
  2. ^ Sommervogel, Carlos (1900), "Lecointe, Alfred", Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus (in French), vol. 9: Supplément: Casalicchio–Zweisig, Anonymes–Pseudonymes (Nouvelle ed.), Paris: Alphonse Picard, pp. 581–582
  3. ^ Boussac, Louis (1894), "Le P. Alfred Lecointe", Lettres d'Uclès, 2e série (in French), 2: 545–549
  4. ^ Reviews: