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Alexis Fontaine des Bertins

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Name
  
Alexis des

Role
  
Mathematician

Died
  
August 21, 1771, Cuiseaux, France

Alexis Fontaine, known as Alexis Fontaine des Bertins (13 August 1704 – 21 August 1771) was a French mathematician. He was a patron and teacher of Jean-Jacques de Marguerie.

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Life

Fontaine was born in Claveyson. He first got a taste for maths by reading the Geometrie de l'infini of Fontenelle and gave solutions to the problems of the tautochrone curve, the brachistochrone curve and orthogonal trajectories. He was elected a member of the Academie des sciences in 1733. He died, aged 67, in Cuiseaux.

Publications

  • Memoires donnes a l'Academie royale des sciences, non imprimes dans leur temps (1764)
  • Traite de calcul differentiel et integral, par M. Fontaine, de l'Academie royale des sciences, pour servir de suite aux memoires de la meme Academie (1770)

    • References

    Alexis Fontaine des Bertins Wikipedia
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