Marin Mersenne, OM (also known as Marinus Mersennus or le Père Mersenne; French:[maʁɛ̃mɛʁsɛn]; 8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. He also developed Mersenne's laws, which describe the harmonics of a vibrating string (such as may be found on guitars and pianos), and his seminal work on music theory, Harmonie universelle, for which he is referred to as the "father of acoustics".[1][2] Mersenne, an ordained Catholic priest, had many contacts in the scientific world and has been called "the center of the world of science and mathematics during the first half of the 1600s"[3] and, because of his ability to make connections between people and ideas, "the post-box of Europe".[4] He was also a member of the ascetical Minim religious order and wrote and lectured on theology and philosophy.
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MarinMersenne, OM (also known as Marinus Mersennus or le Père Mersenne; French: [maʁɛ̃ mɛʁsɛn]; 8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath...
number of the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. They are named after MarinMersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century. If...
after the friar MarinMersenne, are prime numbers that can be expressed as 2p − 1 for some positive integer p. For example, 3 is a Mersenne prime as it is...
obediently following divine instructions to learn, not by one's logic. MarinMersenne was an author, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. He wrote in...
Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, MarinMersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan...
of the pendulum, Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum. MarinMersenne and René Descartes had discovered around 1636 that the pendulum was...
Fermat numbers 2 2 n + 1 {\displaystyle 2^{2^{n}}+1} , and MarinMersenne studied the Mersenne primes, prime numbers of the form 2 p − 1 {\displaystyle...
19th century and at least one author reports credit being given to MarinMersenne. Beginning with the work of Moritz Cantor and Siegmund Günther, scholars...
universelle, contenant la théorie et la pratique de la musique) is a work by MarinMersenne, published in Paris in 1636. It represented the sum of musical knowledge...
the Grenoble IDEX. The Centre Mersenne is named after MarinMersenne. Some academic journals published by Centre Mersenne: Algebraic Combinatorics Annales...
a power of two minus one. The original, called Mersenne's conjecture, was a statement by MarinMersenne in his Cogitata Physico-Mathematica (1644; see...
(d. 1591) MarinMersenne, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1648). In one of his letters R. Descartes writes to Mersenne that he wants...
a regular debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by MarinMersenne. Hobbes's first area of study was an interest in the physical doctrine...
Pierre de Fermat, Blaise Pascal, Christiaan Huygens, Galileo Galilei, MarinMersenne, Evangelista Torricelli and René Descartes. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson...
Charles Maurras Quentin Meillassoux René Ménil Maurice Merleau-Ponty MarinMersenne Jean Meslier Régis Messac Émile Meyerson Gaston Milhaud Jean-Claude...
mota (1658), Casati imagines a dialogue among Guldin, Galileo, and MarinMersenne on various intellectual problems of cosmology, geography, astronomy...
the work of Johannes de Sacrobosco, and in the 1640s, French polymath MarinMersenne published large (but not entirely correct) tables of factorials, up...
Torricelli and the participants in the Accademia del Cimento in Italy; MarinMersenne and Blaise Pascal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands;...
No reference or allusion to the quotation is found there. In 1634, MarinMersenne quoted the expression in his Questions harmoniques: ... comme l'on dit...
attempts to measure the speed of sound accurately, including attempts by MarinMersenne in 1630 (1,380 Parisian feet per second), Pierre Gassendi in 1635 (1...
clear and distinct ideas. The first person to raise this criticism was MarinMersenne, in the "Second Set of Objections" to the Meditations: You are not yet...
repeated and perfected Torricelli's experiment after hearing about it from MarinMersenne, who himself had been shown the experiment by Torricelli toward the...
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