Florimond de Beaune
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French jurist and mathematician
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Florimond de Beaune's Degrees
- Doctorate Law Université Paris Cité
Why Is Florimond de Beaune Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Florimond de Beaune was a French jurist and mathematician, and an early follower of René Descartes. R. Taton calls him "a typical example of the erudite amateurs" active in 17th-century science. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune posed the problem of solving the differential equationnow seen as the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents.
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