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Born

5 June 1814
Paris, France

Died

21 May 1848
Paris, France

Summary

Pierre Wantzel was a French mathematician who proved that several ancient geometric problems were impossible to solve using only ruler and compass constructions.

Biography

Pierre Wantzel's father served in the army for seven years after the birth of Pierre, then became professor of applied mathematics at the École speciale du Commerce.

Pierre Wantzel attended primary school in Ecouen, near Paris, where the family lived. Even at a very young age he showed great aptitude for mathematics, and Saint-Venant relates in [4] that

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he showed, with his great memory, a marvellous aptitude for mathematics, a subject about which he read with extreme interest. He soon surpassed even his master, who sent for the young Wantzel, at age nine, when he encountered a difficult surveying problem.

In 1826, while still only 12 years old, Wantzel entered the École des Arts et Métiers de Châlons.