Étienne Pascal

Étienne Pascal

Born: 2 May 1588 in Clermont-Ferrand, France
Died: 24 Sept 1640 in Paris, France

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Étienne Pascal was the father of Blaise Pascal and is famed as the discoverer of the curve the Limacon of Pascal. The curve, so named by Roberval, can be used to trisect an angle.

References elsewhere in this archive:

Tell me about the limacon of Pascal

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Rice University, USA

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. M Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik II (Leipzig, 1908), 675, 679, 681, 875, 881, 882.
  3. P Tannery, Mémoires Scientifique X (Paris, 1930), 372, 382-383, XIII (Paris, 1934), 337-338.. 
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