// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Christophe Gadbled? A guy with a bledding good name.

Christophe Gadbled (1732–1782) was professor of mathematics and hydrography at the University of Caen Normandy.

Gadbled was born in Saint-Martin-le-Bouillant on 29 November 1732, and died in Caen on 11 October 1782. Robert Fox describes him as a "modern-minded mathematician", who had a particular influence on Pierre-Simon Laplace.

Selected works

• Exposé des quelques unes des vérités rigoureusement démontrées par les géomètres et rejetées par l'auteur du "Compendium de physique", Caen, 1775
• Exercice sur la théorie de la navigation, Caen, 1779

References

Sources

• Frère, Edouard (1860). "Gadbled (Christophe)". Manuel du bibliographe normand [The Normandy Bibliographer's Handbook]. Vol. 2 (1964 reprint ed.). New York: Burt Franklin. p. 1.
• Simon, L'Abbé G. A. (1929). "Les Origines De Laplace: Sa Généalogie, Ses Études" [The Origins of Laplace: His Genealogy, His Studies]. Biometrika. 21 (1/4): 228–229. doi:10.2307/2332558. ISSN 0006-3444. JSTOR 2332558. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.
• Fox, Robert (2007). "Review of Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist". The British Journal for the History of Science. 40 (4): 613–614. doi:10.1017/S0007087407000489. ISSN 0007-0874. JSTOR 30160847. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.

Further reading

• Annuaire du département de la Manche, p. 307, 1929 edition (Saint-Lô, imprimerie J. Elie)