Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1581

Place of Birth: Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 26-Feb-1638

Profession: poet, mathematician, translator

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac

  • Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (9 October 1581 – 26 February 1638) was a French mathematician, linguist, poet and classics scholar born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy. Bachet was a pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at the Jesuit College in Rheims.
  • They became close friends. Bachet wrote the Problèmes plaisants, of which the first edition was issued in 1612, a second and enlarged edition was brought out in 1624; this contains an interesting collection of arithmetical tricks and questions, many of which are quoted in W.
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  • Rouse Ball's Mathematical Recreations and Essays.
  • He also wrote Les éléments arithmétiques, which exists in manuscript; and a translation, from Greek to Latin, of the Arithmetica of Diophantus (1621).
  • It was this very translation in which Fermat wrote his famous margin note claiming that he had a proof of Fermat's last theorem.
  • The same text renders Diophantus' term pa??s?t?? as adaequalitat, which became Fermat's technique of adequality, a pioneering method of infinitesimal calculus. Bachet was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions.
  • He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.
  • Some credible sources also name him the founder of the Bézout's identity.For a year in 1601 Bachet was a member of the Jesuit Order.
  • He lived a comfortable life in Bourg-en-Bresse and married in 1612.
  • He was elected member of the Académie française in 1635.

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