�tienne B�zout (March 31, 1730 - September 27, 1783) was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Basses-Loges (near Fontainbleau), France.

Besides numerous minor works, wrote a Th�orie g�n�rale des �quations alg�briques, published at Paris in 1779, which in particular contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation: he used determinants in a paper in the Histoire de l'acad�mie royale, 1764, but did not treat of the general theory.

See also

• B�zout's theorem
• B�zout's identity

External link

• "�tienne B�zout" in The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bezout.html)

Reference

• The original version of this article was taken from the public domain Rouse History of Mathematics

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