Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

:This article concerns the mathematician. For the president of France fom 1887-1894, see Marie François Sadi Carnot.

Life

Born Paris, Sadi Carnot was the son of the eminent geometer Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot and brother of Hippolyte Carnot. His father named him for Sadi of Shiraz.

Related Topics:
Paris - Geometer - Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot - Hippolyte Carnot - Sadi of Shiraz

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From age 16, he attended the École polytechnique where he and his contemporaries, Claude-Louis Navier and Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, were taught by professors such as Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Siméon Denis Poisson and André-Marie Ampère. After graduation, he became an officer in the French army before committing himself to scientific research, becoming the most celebrated of Fourier's contemporaries who were interested in the theory of heat.

Related Topics:
École polytechnique - Claude-Louis Navier - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - Siméon Denis Poisson - André-Marie Ampère - French army - Fourier - Heat

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He died in Paris of cholera.

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