Marin Mersenne
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 377 years ago |
| Date of birth | September 8,1588 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Born | Oize |
| France | |
| Date of died | September 1,1648 |
| Died | France |
| Known for | Acoustics |
| Mersenne prime | |
| Mersenne's laws | |
| Mersenne's conjecture | |
| Influenced by | René Descartes |
| Euclid | |
| Blaise Pascal | |
| Job | Philosopher |
| Theologian | |
| Mathematician | |
| Books | Cogitata Physico-Mathematica, Certissimis Demonstrationibus Explicantur (Ed. 1644) |
| Harmonie Universelle: the Books on Instruments | |
| Harmonie universelle | |
| Other name | Marinus Mersennus |
| Education | Prytanée National Militaire De La Flèche |
| Influence | René Descartes |
| Galileo Galilei | |
| Euclid | |
| Gilles de Roberval | |
| Jacques Alexandre Le Tenneur | |
| Notable student | Gilles de Roberval |
| Frans van Schooten | |
| Nationality | French |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 510852 |
Marin Mersenne Life story
Marin Mersenne, OM was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those which can be written in the form Mₙ = 2ⁿ − 1 for some integer n.
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