Marin Mersenne: Quick Facts


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Born September 8, 1588 • France
Died September 1, 1648 (aged 59) • Paris • France
Notable Works “La verite des sciences”
Subjects Of Study Mersenne number • Mersenne prime • cycloid • prime • vibration • pendulum

French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
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Sophie Germain
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
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Nicholas Of Cusa
cardinal, scientist, scholar, and philosopher
Godfrey Hardy, 1941
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
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Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Roman philosopher and mathematician
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Atle Selberg
American mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
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Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
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André Weil
French mathematician
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Levi ben Gershom
French scholar
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Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
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Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician