Charles Dupin was a multifaceted figure in the history of France,
where his life spanned several regimes. He produced an enormous
number of publications in mathematics, engineering, economics, and
education. Long neglected by historians, he is at last beginning to
receive attention. In his youth, he championed many causes,
including the education of women, perhaps because of the influence
of his dynamic and learned mother. He was already very ambitious as
a youth and left behind the usual youthful desires in pursuit of
his goals. Dupin began as a brilliant mathematician as a student at
the Ecole polytechnique in Paris and proceeded to become a fine
naval engineer, that is until visits to Britain inspired him to
change his course of direction. As the French industry was
undergoing expansion, Dupin saw in Britain that workers were more
efficient and healthier if they were educated. He greatly admired
the freedom he witnessed in Britain, and this did not endear him to
the French government of the Restoration. Indeed, the high honours
to which he so much aspired eluded him for a considerable time. He
saw the British savings banks and regular saving by workers within
industry as a system to be introduced in France and one that should
be propagated. As an economist, he considered the welfare of French
workers as vital to an efficient industry. He was particularly
concerned with the protection of children in work and the education
of workers. In fact, he might be considered the father of workers'
education in France. This was a subject very close to his heart
and, from his early years, he devoted himself to making public
lectures available to all, including women. However, Dupin's
popularity declined as the importance of a thriving economy began
to take precedence over the workers' needs, with the workers
focusing mainly on having a living wage. This is the first
published study of Charles Dupin and his entire life's work. It
illuminates his work and contribution in so many spheres, as well
as his contacts with other scientists and educators. His
mathematics have long interested scholars in the field, and he
would have been an outstanding naval engineer. He was a linguist
and highly cultured; with his aesthetic sense he might well have
rivaled San, but because of his driving ambition he was a great man
manqu . Against a background of tremendous changes in France, he
made important contributions in many areas, as evidenced by the
bibliography in this book. This work will be of interest to
mathematicians, historians of science, sociologists, economists,
engineers, and educators.
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