Achille Brocot
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 147 years ago |
| Date of birth | July 11,1817 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Died | Boissy-Saint-Leger |
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| Date of died | January 19,1878 |
| Parents | Louis-Gabriel Brocot |
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| ID | 3558589 |
Achille Brocot Life story
Louis Achille Brocot was a French clockmaker and amateur mathematician. He is known for his discovery of the Stern–Brocot tree, a mathematical structure useful in approximating real numbers by rational numbers; this sort of approximation is an important part of the design of gear ratios for clocks.