Marin Mersenne photograph

Marin Mersenne

Use attributes for filter !
Gender Male
Death376 years ago
Date of birth September 8,1588
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Oize
France
Date of died September 1,1648
DiedFrance
Known for Acoustics
Mersenne prime
Mersenne's laws
Mersenne's conjecture
Influenced by René Descartes
Euclid
Blaise Pascal
Job Philosopher
Theologian
Mathematician
BooksCogitata Physico-Mathematica, Certissimis Demonstrationibus Explicantur (Ed. 1644)
Harmonie Universelle: the Books on Instruments
Harmonie universelle
Other nameMarinus 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
NationalityFrench
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID510852
Send edit request

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.

Marin Mersenne Photos

Related Persons

Next Profile ❯