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Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac

1581 - 1638

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Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac (9 October 1581 – 26 February 1638) was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy. He wrote Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres, Les éléments arithmétiques, and a Latin translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus (the very translation where Fermat wrote a margin note about Fermat's Last Theorem). He also discovered means of solving indeterminate equations using continued fractions, a method of constructing magic squares, and a proof of Bézout's identity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac is the 376th most popular mathematician (up from 655th in 2019), the 2,417th most popular biography from France (up from 4,046th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 376 out of 1,004. Before him are Daina Taimiņa, Sergei Sobolev, Antoine Gombaud, Vladimir Drinfeld, Michael Maestlin, and László Lovász. After him are John Milnor, Raymond Smullyan, Guillaume Postel, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Thomas Heath, and Marshall Harvey Stone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1581, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 8. Before him are False Dmitry I, Domenichino, Bernardo Strozzi, James Ussher, Peter Claver, and Giulia Tofana. After him are Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Hendrik Brouwer, Edmund Gunter, Frans Francken the Younger, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, and Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. Among people deceased in 1638, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 15. Before him are Amakusa Shirō, Willem Blaeu, Cornelis van Haarlem, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, and Cyril Lucaris. After him are Hercules Seghers, Barbara Longhi, Paulus Moreelse, Georg Flegel, Jacques Blanchard, and Johann Heinrich Alsted.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 2,417 out of 6,770. Before him are Adolphe Marbot (1781), Robert de Cotte (1656), Christian-Jaque (1904), Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643), André Navarra (1911), and Paul Hazard (1878). After him are Sophie Calle (1953), Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (1929), Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704), Abbo of Fleury (945), Henry II, Duke of Guise (1614), and William I of Provence (950).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 63. Before him are Alain Connes (1947), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), René-Louis Baire (1874), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Paul Émile Appell (1855), and Antoine Gombaud (1607). After him are Guillaume Postel (1510), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Christian Kramp (1760), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), and Gilles de Roberval (1602).

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