Esprit Jouffret, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Esprit Jouffret

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1837

Place of Birth: Monteux, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 06-Nov-1904

Profession: combat engineer, mathematician, actuary, painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Esprit Jouffret (15 March 1837 – 6 November 1904) was a French artillery officer, insurance actuary and mathematician, author of Traité élémentaire de géométrie à quatre dimensions (Elementary Treatise on the Geometry of Four Dimensions, 1903), a popularization of Henri Poincaré's Science and Hypothesis in which Jouffret described hypercubes and other complex polyhedra in four dimensions and projected them onto the two-dimensional page. Maurice Princet brought Traite to artist Pablo Picasso's attention.
Picasso's sketchbooks for his 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon illustrate Jouffret's influence on the artist's work.