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.

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