Mathematician:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac

Mathematician
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 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Savoy (now France)
 * Died: 26 February 1638 in Bourg-en-Bresse

Theorems and Definitions
Believed to have provided a proof of what is now known as Bézout's Identity.

Publications

 * 1612: ("Pleasant and Delectable Problems that are done by Numbers")
 * 1624:


 * 1621: A translation from Greek to Latin of the of . It was in the margin of this edition that  stated his famous "last" theorem

, which exists in manuscript form

Also known as
Also known as Claude Bachet or Claude-Gaspar Bachet, with or without the hyphen.