Mathematician:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac

1581 - 1638

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.