Mathematician:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac
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Also known as Claude (Gaspar) Bachet.
First member to hold Seat 13 of the Académie Française.
- Born: 9 October 1581 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Savoy (now France)
- Died: 26 February 1638 in Bourg-en-Bresse
Theorems and Definitions
Believed to have provided a proof of what is now known as Bézout's Identity.
- 1612: Problèmes plaisans et delectables qui se font par les nombres, a collection of arithmetical tricks and questions
- 1621: A translation from Greek to Latin of the Arithmetica of Diophantus. It was in the margin of this edition that Fermat stated his famous "last" theorem
- 1624: Problèmes plaisans (2nd edition)
Les éléments arithmétiques, which exists in manuscript form
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive