Mathematician:Grégoire de Saint-Vincent

Mathematician
Flemish Jesuit and mathematician, best remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola.

Gave an early account of the summation of geometric series

Resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum.

Nationality
Flemish

History

 * Born: 8 September 1584 in Bruges, Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium)
 * Died: 27 January 1667 in Ghent, Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium)

Theorems and Definitions

 * Grégoire's Constant, also known as:
 * Mercator's Constant, for
 * the alternating harmonic series


 * Independently of and : Newton-Mercator Series

Publications

 * 1619: Theses cometis
 * 1620: Theses mechanicae
 * 1647: Opus geometricum quadraturae circuli sectionum coni
 * 1668: Opus geometricum ad mesolabium