Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (born 1588)

Marin Mersenne

French polymath (1588–1648)

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…