Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet as French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743–1794).
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet was born at Ribemont in 1743. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at University of Paris.
This was the age of analysis, when the calculus was pushed hard and its foundations were not yet secure.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics.
Among his principal contributions are Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind, Condorcet criterion and voting paradox (Condorcet). Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from France matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet died in 1794, aged 51. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind
- Notable work: Condorcet criterion
- Notable work: voting paradox (Condorcet)
- Notable work: Condorcet method
- Fields: mathematics
