Achille Brocot
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 146 years ago |
Date of birth | July 11,1817 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Died | Boissy-Saint-Leger |
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Date of died | January 19,1878 |
Parents | Louis-Gabriel Brocot |
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ID | 3558589 |
Achille Brocot Life story
Louis Achille Brocot was a French clockmaker and amateur mathematician. He is known for his discovery of the Stern–Brocot tree, a mathematical structure useful in approximating real numbers by rational numbers; this sort of approximation is an important part of the design of gear ratios for clocks.