Billy

Jacques de Billy

Born: 18 March 1602 in Compiègne, France
Died: 14 Jan 1679 in Dijon, France

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Billy taught mathematics and theology at Jesuit colleges all his life. He became a close friend of Bachet, who was one of his pupils, while teaching at Rheims. While teaching at Dijon one of his pupils was Ozanam. Billy corresponded with Fermat and produced a number of results in number theory which have been named after him. He also published astronomical tables.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. R P Niceron, Mémoires pour servir à l'hostoire des hommes illustres dans la république des lettres XL (Paris, 1739), 232-244.
  3. P Humbert, Les Astronomers francais de 1610 à 1667, Société d'études scientifiques et archéologiques de Draguignan, Mémoires 63 (1942), 1-72. 
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