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    Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (French pronunciation: [ɡʁeɡwaʁ də sɛ̃ vɛ̃sɑ̃]) - in Latin : Gregorius a Sancto Vincentio, in Dutch : Gregorius van St-Vincent...
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    inédites de Grégoire de Saint-Vincent publiées avec des notes bibliographiques sur les œuvres de Grégoire de Saint-Vincent et les manuscrits de della Faille"...
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    radians (π rad being equal to 180° and 2π rad being equal to 360°). Grégoire de Saint-Vincent and Bonaventura Cavalieri independently introduced the concepts...
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  • Grégoire is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Alexandre Grégoire (1922–2001), Haitian painter Antonina Grégoire (1914-1952)...
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    14th decimal place. In 1649, Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa, a former student of Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, related logarithms to the quadrature of the hyperbola...
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    impossibility of squaring the circle, against the opinion of Grégoire de Saint-Vincent. Examen circuli quadraturae (in Latin). Vol. 1. Lyon: Guillaume...
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  • ungulates. The volume of an ungula of a cylinder was calculated by Grégoire de Saint Vincent. Two cylinders with equal radii and perpendicular axes intersect...
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  • function Prime number theorem Richter magnitude scale Grégoire de Saint-Vincent Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa Schnorr signature Semi-log graph Significand...
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    With its help Galileo Galilei and Gilles de Roberval found the area of a cycloid arch, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent investigated the area under a hyperbola...
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  • left some magnitude less than the lesser magnitude set out." Grégoire de Saint-Vincent gave the first definition of limit (terminus) of a geometric series...
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    Johannes Kepler publishes Nova stereometria doliorum, 1620 - Grégoire de Saint-Vincent discovers that the area under a hyperbola represented a logarithm...
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  • Quadrature (geometry) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    With its help, Galileo Galilei and Gilles de Roberval found the area of a cycloid arch, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent investigated the area under a hyperbola...
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  • functions through quadrature of the rectangular hyperbola xy = 1 by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent in 1647, two millennia after Archimedes had produced The Quadrature...
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    = 1) is one of quadrature. The solution, found by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent and Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa in 1647, required the natural logarithm function...
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    including a mathematical proof of the law of free fall, the claim by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent of circle quadrature, which Huygens showed to be wrong, the rectification...
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    quadrature required the invention in 1647 of a new function: Gregoire de Saint-Vincent addressed the problem of computing the areas bounded by a hyperbola...
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    Archimedes succeeded in summing what is now called a geometric series. Grégoire de Saint-Vincent gave the first definition of limit (terminus) of a geometric series...
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  • resolved by Flemish Jesuit and mathematician Grégoire de Saint-Vincent and his student Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa in the mid 17th century, who demonstrated...
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    attempt to perform a quadrature of a rectangular hyperbola by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, a Belgian Jesuit residing in Prague. Archimedes had written The...
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    {\displaystyle e} . This appropriation of the significant number from Grégoire de Saint-Vincent’s calculus suffices to establish the natural logarithm. This part...
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    cone. Further, the attention to areas of hyperbolic sectors by Gregoire de Saint-Vincent led to the logarithm function and the modern parametrization of...
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    worked alongside Gregoire de Saint-Vincent whose ideas he developed, exploited, and promulgated. According to Sommervogel, Alphonse de Sarasa also held...
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    mathematics, physics and logic at Leuven. Two of his teachers were Grégoire de Saint-Vincent and Francois d'Aguilon.[citation needed] Tacquet became a brilliant...
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    Diocese of Tuticorin. Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, contributions to the theory of logarithms Karel San Juan, Filipino president of Ateneo de Zamboanga University...
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    Wolfgang Rindler (2001). The quadrature of the hyperbola xy = 1 by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent established the natural logarithm as the area of a hyperbolic...
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    Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (d. 1663) March 22 – Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Flemish Jesuit mathematician (d. 1667) March 26 – John II, Count...
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  • 10 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician (born 1595) June 5 – Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Flemish mathematician (born 1584) probable date – Peter Mundy...
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    Squaring the circle (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    decem libris comprehensum by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, was heavily criticized by Vincent Léotaud. Nevertheless, de Saint-Vincent succeeded in his quadrature...
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    but hyperbolic angle was developed in this configuration by Gregoire de Saint-Vincent. He was attempting to perform quadrature with respect to the rectangular...
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    to Antwerp where, as one of the best Mathematics' students of Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, he became also his disciple. In 1620, he went to Dole, also part...
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