Mathematician:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac

1581 - 1638

Also known as Claude (Gaspard) Bachet.

First to discuss the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions.

First member to hold Seat 13 of the Académie Française.

Nationality
French.

History

 * Born: 9 October 1581
 * Died: 26 February 1638

Books and Papers

 * "Problèmes plaisants" (1612, 2nd edition 1624), a collection of arithmetical tricks and questions.
 * "Les éléments arithmétiques" (1621), a translation from Greek to Latin of the "Arithmetic" of Diophantus. It was in the margin of this edition that Fermat stated his famous "last" theorem.