List of Famous people with last name Meziriac

Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac

First Name Claude
Last Name Méziriac
Born on October 9, 1581
Died on February 26, 1638 (aged 56)

Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac 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. He also discovered means of solving indeterminate equations using continued fractions, a method of constructing magic squares, and a proof of Bézout's identity.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.017025947570801s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.012151002883911s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.012104988098145s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0054600238800049s
router_page: 1x 0.0043268203735352s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0035600662231445s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0029401779174805s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0028960704803467s
headline: 2x 0.0016307830810547s
qids: 2x 0.00073099136352539s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00037813186645508s
head-facts: 1x 0.00034189224243164s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00023388862609863s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.7166137695312E-5s
related: 1x 5.0067901611328E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-10-27 07:35:10)  -----