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Biography of Gilles Personne de Roberval
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Gilles Personne de Roberval is generally considered to be the founder of kinematic geometry (a branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion) because of his discoveries about plane curves and the method he developed for drawing the tangent to a...


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1602-1675 French mathematician who became a professor of mathematics at the Collège Royale in Paris, despite his peasant background. He traveled widely through France teaching mathematics and meeting many important mathematicians. He developed new...
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Gilles Personne de Roberval (August 10, 1602 - October 27 1675), French mathematician, was born at Roberval, near Beauvais, France. His name was originally Gilles Personne or Gilles Personier, that of Roberval, by which he is known, being taken from the...


 

Gilles de Roberval

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