Joseph Saurin
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1659 – 1737
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Who was Joseph Saurin?
Joseph Saurin was a French mathematician and a converted Protestant minister. He was the first to show how the tangents at the multiple points of curves could be determined by mathematical analysis. He was accused in 1712 by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau of being the actual author of defamatory verses that gossip had attributed to Rousseau.
He was the father of Bernard-Joseph Saurin.
An original entry was based on the book A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball.
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- Born
- 1659
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 29, 1737
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on July 23, 2013
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