Mathematicians commemorated on the Eiffel Tower


When Gustave Eiffel built his famous Parisian tower, he included the names of 72 prominent French scientists on plaques around the first stage. Those who are in our archive are listed below.

Click on the name below to go to the biography.

Ampère
Arago
Borda
Carnot
Cauchy
Chasles
Clapeyron
Coriolis
Coulomb
De Prony

Delambre
Delaunay
Fizeau
Foucault
Fourier
Fresnel
Lagrange
Lalande
Lamé
Laplace

Le Verrier
Legendre
Malus
Monge
Morin
Navier
Poinsot
Poisson
Poncelet
Sturm

The full list of the 72 scientists commemorated is at THIS LINK and used to be part of the Eiffel Tower web site -- but they took it away!

Biographies of all 72 are available at THIS LINK.

A poster of the mathematicians commemorated on the Eiffel Tower is at THIS LINK.