Ozanam

Jacques Ozanam

Born: 1640 in Bouligneux, Bresse, France
Died: 3 April 1717 in Paris, France

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Ozanam was interested in recreational mathematics and analysis. The precursor of books to follow for the next 200 years, he published in four volumes in 1694 his Récréations mathématique et physiques which went through many editions.

Ozanam based his book on earlier books by Bachet, Mydorge, Leurechon, and Schwenter. It was later revised and enlarged by Montucla, then translated into English by Hutton (1803, 1814). It contains an early example of a problem about orthogonal Latin squares.

Arrange the 16 court cards so that each row and each column contains one of each suit and one of each value.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. M Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik II (Leipzig, 1913), 770, III, 102-103, 270, 364. 
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