Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (died 1638)

Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac

French mathematician (1581–1638)

Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy. He wrote Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres, Les éléments arithmétiques, and a Latin translation of the…