Marin Mersenne

Marin Mersenne

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 which can be 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 322,509 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Marin Mersenne is the 60th most popular mathematician (down from 57th in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from France (down from 371st in 2019) and the 14th 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.