Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac
Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac
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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Date of Birth
October 9th, 1581
Age
444
Birth Place
France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Date of Death
February 26th, 1638
Died Aged
56
Star Sign
Libra
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