Joseph Tilly
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1837 – 1906
Who was Joseph Tilly?
Joseph Tilly was a Belgian military man and mathematician.
He was born in Ypres, Belgium. In 1858, he became a teacher in mathematics at the regimental school. He began with studying geometry, particularly Euclid's fifth postulate and non-Euclidean geometry. He found similar results as Lobachevsky in 1860, but the Russian mathematician was already dead at that time. Tilly is more known for his work on non-Euclidean mechanics, as he was the one who invented it. He worked thus alone on this topic until a French mathematician named Jules Hoüel showed interest in that field. Tilly also wrote on military science and history of mathematics. He died in München, Germany.
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