Paul de Faget de Casteljau (19.11.1930 - 24.3.2022) has left us an extensive autobiography, written in 1997..
Paul de Casteljau
French physicist and mathematician (1930–2022)
Paul de Casteljau (19 November 1930 – 24 March 2022) was a French physicist and mathematician.
In 1959, while working at Citroën, he developed an algorithm for evaluating calculations on a certain family of curves, which would later be formalized and popularized by engineer Pierre Bézier, leading to the curves widely known as Bézier curves.
Paul de Casteljau (1930-2022) became famous for his fundamental algorithms on the representation of curves and surfaces in CAD. This translated.
He studied at École Normale Supérieure, and worked at Citroën from 1958 until his retirement in 1992. When he arrived there, "Specialists admitted that all electrical, electronic and mechanical problems had more or less been solved.
All—except for one single formality which made up for 5%, but certainly not for 20% of the problem; in other words, how to express component parts by equations."[1] A short autobiographic sketch goes back to the early 1990s,[2] a longer autobiography talks about his education and life at Citroën until his retirement.
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