Mathematician:Bernard Frénicle de Bessy

Mathematician
French mathematician who wrote numerous mathematical papers, mainly in number theory and combinatorics.

Described all $880$ essentially different normal magic squares of order $4$.

Invented the Frénicle standard form, a standard representation of magic squares

Solved many problems created by.

Discovered the cube property of the number $1729$ (Ramanujan number), later referred to as a taxicab number.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: c. 1604 in Paris, France
 * Died: 1674 in Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

 * Frénicle Standard Form

Publications

 * 1693: Des quarrez ou tables magiques, a treatise on magic squares
 * 1693: La Méthode des exclusions

Also known as
Generally known as Frénicle.

Some sources report his name without the accent: Frenicle.