Jean François Niceron
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French cleric and mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jean-François Niceron was a French mathematician, Minim friar, and painter of anamorphic art, on which he wrote the ground-breaking book La Perspective Curieuse . Biography Jean-François Niceron was a mathematical prodigy. He studied under Father Marin Mersenne, a famed mathematician and Minim friar, at the College de Nevers. In 1632, at the age of nineteen, he joined the Order of Minims.
