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Gilles de Roberval. Portrait of Gilles Personne de Roberval (1602-1675) at the inauguration of the French Academy of Sciences, 1666, where he was a founding member. 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 Personne de Roberval (born Aug. 8, 1602, Roberval, France—died Oct. 27, 1675, Paris) was a French mathematician who made important advances in the geometry of curves. In 1632 Roberval became professor of mathematics at the Collège de France, Paris, a position he held until his death. He studied the methods of determination of surface ...
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Gilles Personne de Roberval, aussi appelé Gilles Personier de Roberval, est un mathématicien et physicien français, né le 9 août 1602 1 à Noël-Saint-Martin, désormais commune de Villeneuve-sur-Verberie ( Oise ), et mort le 27 octobre 1675 à Paris . Il fut célèbre en son temps pour son caractère entier et querelleur.
Aug 9, 2011 · Gilles began to study mathematics at the age of 14 years when the parish priest of Rhuis, a village just 2 km to the north of Roberval, realised that young Gilles was highly intelligent and began to give him lessons. The parish priest was actually the chaplain to the queen, Marie de Médici, and he not only instructed Gilles Personne in ...
Jan 5, 2016 · Summary. Roberval was born as Gilles Personne in the small village of Roberval near Senlis, France. His father was a poor farmer or farmworker, and his mother is said to have given birth to him in a field. At the age of fourteen, his intelligence recognized, Gilles Personne was given instruction in mathematics and languages by a local priest.
In 1628, Mersenne encouraged Gilles de Roberval to study the cycloid. By 1634, Roberval had solved the quadrature problem, showing that the area under one arch of the curve is exactly three times the area of the generating circle. By 1638, he could draw the tangent to the curve at any point, and had found the
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Gilles Personne de Roberval. 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 methods of integration, and did foundational work on kinematic ...
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