Marin Mersenne
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 376 years ago |
Date of birth | September 8,1588 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Oize |
France | |
Date of died | September 1,1648 |
Died | France |
Known for | Acoustics |
Mersenne prime | |
Mersenne's laws | |
Mersenne's conjecture | |
Influenced by | René Descartes |
Euclid | |
Blaise Pascal | |
Job | Philosopher |
Theologian | |
Mathematician | |
Books | Cogitata Physico-Mathematica, Certissimis Demonstrationibus Explicantur (Ed. 1644) |
Harmonie Universelle: the Books on Instruments | |
Harmonie universelle | |
Other name | Marinus Mersennus |
Education | Prytanée National Militaire De La Flèche |
Influence | René Descartes |
Galileo Galilei | |
Euclid | |
Gilles de Roberval | |
Jacques Alexandre Le Tenneur | |
Notable student | Gilles de Roberval |
Frans van Schooten | |
Nationality | French |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 510852 |
Marin Mersenne Life story
Marin Mersenne, OM was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those which can be written in the form Mₙ = 2ⁿ − 1 for some integer n.