François Nicole, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French mathematician
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About François Nicole
- François Nicole (December 23, 1683 – January 18, 1758) was a French mathematician, born in Paris and died there, who published his Traité du calcul des différences finies in 1717; it contains rules both for forming differences and for effecting the summation of given series.
- Besides this, in 1706 he wrote a work on roulettes, especially spherical epicycloids; and in 1729 and 1731 he published memoirs on Newton's essay on curves of the third degree.
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