Pierre Ossian Bonnet

Pierre Ossian Bonnet
Born(1819-12-22)22 December 1819
Died22 June 1892(1892-06-22) (aged 72)
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Known forBonnet family
Bonnet theorem
Bonnet's recursion formula
Bonnet–Myers theorem
Gauss–Bonnet theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Pierre Ossian Bonnet (French: [bɔnɛ]; 22 December 1819, Montpellier – 22 June 1892, Paris) was a French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss–Bonnet theorem.