Carcavi
Pierre de Carcavi
Born: 1600 in Lyon, France
Died: 1684 in Paris, France
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Pierre de Carcavi is best known for his correspondence with other mathematicians rather than for his own mathematics. He was friends with Huygens, Fermat and Pascal and corresponded with them. He also corresponded with Galileo, Mersenne, Torricelli and Descartes and he is important in transferring information from one to the other. Carcavi made many suggestions which were later developed and incorporated in the papers of the other mathematicians.
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References:
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- C Henry, Pierre de Carcavi, intermédiaire de Fermat, de Pascal et de Huygens, Bollettino di bibliographia e storia della scienze matematiche 17 (1884), 317-391.
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