MATHEMATICIAN

Marin Mersenne

1588 - 1648

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Marin Mersenne, OM (also known as Marinus Mersennus or le Père Mersenne; French: [maʁɛ̃ mɛʁsɛn]; 8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) 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 written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. He also developed Mersenne's laws, which describe the harmonics of a vibrating string (such as may be found on guitars and pianos), and his seminal work on music theory, Harmonie universelle, for which he is referred to as the "father of acoustics". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marin Mersenne has received more than 375,978 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Marin Mersenne is the 54th most popular mathematician (up from 60th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from France (up from 424th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Mathematician.

Marin Mersenne is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. He was a French mathematician who lived from 1588 to 1648. He is most famous for his work on prime numbers.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marin Mersenne ranks 54 out of 1,004. Before him are Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Brahmagupta, Sophie Germain, Karl Weierstrass, and Philolaus. After him are Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Gaspard Monge, Al-Battani, Émilie du Châtelet, and August Ferdinand Möbius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, Marin Mersenne ranks 2. Before him is Thomas Hobbes. After him are Constance of Austria, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Henri, Prince of Condé, Marina Mniszech, Isaac Beeckman, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Robert Filmer, Jan Janssonius, and Pierre Séguier. Among people deceased in 1648, Marin Mersenne ranks 4. Before him are Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire, Christian IV of Denmark, and Władysław IV Vasa. After him are Tirso de Molina, Joseph Calasanz, George I Rákóczi, Claudia de' Medici, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Qin Liangyu, Vincent Voiture, and Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marin Mersenne ranks 377 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), Theodor Eicke (1892), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Ève Curie (1904), and André Malraux (1901). After him are Théophile Gautier (1811), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), John Vianney (1786), Hans Bethe (1906), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), and Jean-Martin Charcot (1825).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Marin Mersenne ranks 12. Before him are Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Pope Sylvester II (938), and Sophie Germain (1776). After him are Gaspard Monge (1746), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), and Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752).

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