Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac

Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy. He wrote Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres, Les éléments arithmétiques, and a Latin translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus.

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Who was born first?

• Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac and Edmund Gunter were born the same year
• Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac was born 1 year after Willebrord Snellius
• Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac was born 1 year before Giulio Alenio
• Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac was born 1 year after Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
• Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac was born 2 years before Denis Pétau

Timeline

1. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de PeirescDecember 1, 1580 – June 24, 1637
2. Willebrord SnelliusJune 13, 1580 – October 30, 1626
3. Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac (this page)October 9, 1581 – February 26, 1638
4. Edmund Gunter1581 – December 10, 1626
5. Giulio Alenio1582 – August 3, 1649
6. Denis PétauAugust 21, 1583 – December 11, 1652

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