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{{Short description|French mathematician}}
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| birth_place = [[Paris]], [[France]]
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'''Joseph-Alfred Serret''' ({{IPA|fr|sɛʁɛ|lang}}; August 30, 1819 – March 2, 1885) was a [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] who was born in [[Paris]], [[France]], and died in [[Versailles (city)|Versailles]], France.

==See also==
*[[Frenet–Serret formulas]]

==Books by J.-A. Serret==
* [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ABN8403.0001.001 Traité de trigonométrie] (Gautier-Villars, 1880)
* [https://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.math/docviewer?did=05220001&view=50&frames=0&seq=7 Cours de calcul differentiel et integral t. 1] (Gauthier-Villars, 1900)
* [https://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.math/docviewer?did=05270001&view=50&frames=0&seq=7  Cours de calcul differentiel et integral t. 2] (Gauthier-Villars, 1900)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37263490 Cours d'algèbre supérieure. Tome I] (Gauthier-Villars, 1877)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37263498 Cours d'algèbre supérieure. Tome II] (Gauthier-Villars, 1879)

== External links ==
* {{MacTutor Biography|id=Serret|title=Joseph Alfred Serret}}
* {{MathGenealogy|id=129885|title=Joseph Alfred Serret}}

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[[Category:1819 births]]
[[Category:1885 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century French mathematicians]]
[[Category:École Polytechnique alumni]]
[[Category:Members of the French Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:Differential geometers]]


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