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    Pierre Varignon (1654 – 23 December 1722) was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University of Caen, where he received...
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    parallelogram, called the Varignon parallelogram. It is named after Pierre Varignon, whose proof was published posthumously in 1731. The midpoints of the...
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  • Varignon's theorem is a theorem of French mathematician Pierre Varignon (1654–1722), published in 1687 in his book Projet d'une nouvelle mécanique. The...
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    122. Costabel, Pierre; Peiffer, Jeanne (1988). Der Briefwechsel von Johann I Bernoulli", Vol. II: "Der Briefwechsel mit Pierre Varignon, Erster Teil: 1692-1702"...
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  • a model akin to a physical frame adapted from some ideas by Pierre Varignon (a Varignon frame), Weber applies freight rates of resources and finished...
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    mathematics and physics. In 1708, at the age of 24, he was nominated by Pierre Varignon (who taught him mathematics) and elected a member of the Académie des...
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    plane, thereby degenerating into a quadrilateral, Varignon's theorem, named after Pierre Varignon, states the following: Let a quadrilateral in R 2 {\displaystyle...
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    direction of the resultant force. Both polygons were introduced by Pierre Varignon (Nouvelle Mecanique ou Statique, 1725) and became the basis of the...
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    plane curve near an inflection point. L'Hôpital exchanged ideas with Pierre Varignon and corresponded with Gottfried Leibniz, Christiaan Huygens, and Jacob...
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  • virtual work law appeared in his letter to Pierre Varignon in 1715, which was later published in Varignon's second volume of Nouvelle mécanique ou Statique...
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    are missed when one applies the methods of infinitesimal calculus. Pierre Varignon responded by pointing out that Rolle had misrepresented the curve,...
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  • {m^{2}}}}}+\cdots .} Bernoulli called this equation a "not inelegant paradox". Pierre Varignon (1654–1722) treated Grandi's series in his report Précautions à prendre...
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  • The mathematician Pierre Varignon, whose work would influence the young Leonhard Euler, earned his M.A. from Caen in 1682. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)...
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    However, recognizable Cremona diagrams appeared as early as 1725, in Pierre Varignon's posthumously published work, Nouvelle Méchanique ou Statique. In the...
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    developed ways to find volumes and centers of gravity of solid bodies Pierre Varignon (1654–1722) – priest and mathematician whose principle contributions...
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    Faille, Paul Guldin, John Wallis, Christiaan Huygens, Louis Carré, Pierre Varignon, and Alexis Clairaut expanded the concept further. Newton's second...
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    film director Seb Toussaint (born 1988), street artist and painter Pierre Varignon (1654–1722), mathematician; he invented the U-tube manometer. Estienne...
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    explicitly".: 54  He demonstrated the resolution of forces before Pierre Varignon, which had not been remarked previously, even though it is a simple...
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    their alternative name, reciprocal spirals, can be used instead. Pierre Varignon first studied the hyperbolic spiral in 1704, as an example of the polar...
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  • included (Cum Prodiisset). In a 1702 letter to French mathematician Pierre Varignon subtitled “Justification of the Infinitesimal Calculus by that of Ordinary...
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    The Varignon frame, named after Pierre Varignon, is a mechanical device which can be used to determine an optimal location of a warehouse for the destribution...
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  • to have invented them nor is there any evidence that he made them.) Pierre Varignon applies calculus to spring-driven clocks. November 5 – Edward Stone...
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    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
    and became friendly with the abbé de Saint-Pierre, the abbé Vertot and the mathematician Pierre Varignon. He witnessed, in 1680, the total failure of...
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  • Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French general and diplomat (b. 1602) 1722 – Pierre Varignon, French mathematician and academic (b. 1654) 1761 – Alastair Ruadh...
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  • the 1725 introduction of the force polygon and funicular polygon by Pierre Varignon. Giovanni Poleni used the graphical calculations (and Robert Hooke's...
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  • by a permanent new production and destruction of aether. In 1690, Pierre Varignon assumed that all bodies are exposed to pushes by aether particles from...
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    geometry to solve structural problems. In 1717 Jean Bernoulli wrote to Pierre Varignon explaining the principle of virtual work, while in 1726 Daniel Bernoulli...
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  • Brunswick-Lüneburg in hopes of a reunification between Catholicism and Lutheranism. Pierre Varignon (1654–1722): French mathematician and Catholic priest known for his...
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    1652) December 20 – Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654) December 23 – Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) "Silence Dogood, No. 1, 2 April 1722"...
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  • by James Clerk Maxwell from 1864 to 1870, based on earlier work of Pierre Varignon, William Rankine, and others, and was popularized in the late 19th...
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