Sluze

René Francois Walter de Sluze

Born: 2 July 1622 in Visé, Principality of Liège (now Belgium)
Died: 19 March 1685 in Liège, Principality of Liège (now Belgium)

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René de Sluze was a canon in the church and wrote many books on mathematics. He worked on calculus, in particular on the equation for the cycloid. In these works he discusses spirals, points of inflection and the finding of geometric means.

The family of curves y^n = k(a-x)^px^m for positive integer exponents, are called the pearls of Sluze .

References elsewhere in this archive:

Show me the Pearls of Sluze

Other Web sites:

Rice University, USA

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. M C le Paige, Correspondance de René Francois de Sluze publiée pour la première fois, Bollettino di bibliografia e di Storia delle scienze mathematiche e fisiche 17 (1884), 494-726.
  3. P Gilbert, René de Sluze (Brussels, 1886). 
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