Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (died 1694)

Antoine Arnauld

French Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician (1612–1694)

Antoine Arnauld was a French Catholic theologian, priest, philosopher and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics. Contemporaries called him le Grand to distinguish him from his…