Mathematician:Peter Ramus

Mathematician

French logician, humanist and political reformer who fell victim to religious war.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 1515 in Cuts (near Noyon), Vermandois, France
• Died: 26 August 1572 in Paris, France

Books and Papers

• 1543: Aristotelicae Animadversiones
• 1547: Brutinae questiones
• 1548: Grammatica latina
• 1549: Rhetoricae distinctiones in Quintilianum
• 1555: Dialectique
• 1555: Arithmétique
• 1559: De moribus veterum Gallorum (second edition 1572)
• 1560: Grammatica Graeca
• 1562: Advertissement sur la réformation de l'université de Paris
• 1562: Grammaire Française
• 1565: Scolae physicae
• 1566: Scolae metaphysicae
• 1567: Prooemium mathematicum
• 1569: Scholarum mathematicarum libri unus et triginta
• 1576: Commentariorum de religione christiana
• 1578: Scolae mathematicae
• 1584: Liber de Cæsaris Militia Paris

Also known as

His name at birth was Pierre de la Ramée. His Latinized name is often given as Petrus Ramus.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Peter Ramus": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive