Marin Mersenne
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a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers
Born
8 September 1588 Oizé, Maine, France
Died
1 September 1648 (aged 59) Paris, France
Nationality
French
Known for
Mersenne primes Mersenne's laws Acoustics
Fields
Mathematics, physics
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France
era
1600-1800
Influences
René Descartes Étienne Pascal Pierre Petit Gilles de Roberval Thomas Hobbes Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc Giovanni Doni Jacques Alexandre Le Tenneur Constantijn Huygens Galileo Galilei
Other names
Marinus Mersennus