Died 1648-09-01.
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Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne, OM 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, and his seminal work on music theory, Harmonie universelle, for which he is referred to…
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science · French polymath (1588–1648) · philosopher · theologian · mathematician · musicologist · music theorist · physicist · astronomer · also Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus, le Père Mersenne, le Pere Mersenne, Mersenne
Born 8 September 1588 · Died 1 September 1648 · Q188663
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Studied at University of Paris (1609–1611).
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Studied at collège Henri-IV de La Flèche (1604–1609).
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Born 1588-09-08.
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