Charles Étienne Louis Camus (August 25, 1699 – February 2, 1768), French mathematician and mechanician, was born at Crecy-en-Brie, near Meaux. He studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy, and became associate of the Académie des Sciences, professor of geometry, secretary to the Academy of Architecture and fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 1736 he accompanied Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Claude Clairaut in the expedition to Lapland for the measurement of a degree of the meridian. He was the author of a Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), and a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects (see Poggendorff, Biog.-lit. Handworterbuch).
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- O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Charles Étienne Louis Camus". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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