C. V. Mourey (1791? – 1830?) was a French mathematician who wrote a work of 100 pages titled (The true theory of negative quantities and of alleged imaginary quantities), published in Paris in 1828 and reedited in 1861, in which he gave a systematic presentation of vector theory. He seems to be the first mathematician to state the necessity of specifying the conditions of equality between vectors., page 539.
Mourey also stated that there exists a more general algebra but no other writings by him have survived., pages 11 and 16.
Nothing is known about Mourey's life., page 569. The St. Andrews University's researcher Elizabeth Lewis, supposes Mourey was a technician in Paris, but says she cannot positively identify him., MacTutor History of Mathematics.
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