Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (/ˌmoʊpərˈtwiː/; French: [mopɛʁtɥi]; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters...

Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (/də ˈbroʊɡli/, also US: /də broʊˈɡliː, də ˈbrɔɪ/; French: [də bʁɔj] or [də bʁœj] ; 15 August 1892 – 19...

Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar whose work was important...

Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695 (Netherlands) Pierre Bouguer 1698–1758 (France & Peru) Pierre de Maupertuis 1698–1759 (France) Alexis Clairaut 1713–1765...

he was made professor of hydrography at Le Havre, and succeeded Pierre Louis Maupertuis as associate geometer of the Academy of Sciences. He also invented...

In classical mechanics, Maupertuis's principle (named after Pierre Louis Maupertuis, 1698 – 1759) states that the path followed by a physical system is...

1736, aged only 20. He was chosen in the same year to accompany Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Clairaut on their geodetical expedition for measuring...

calculus. She was also tutored by Bernoulli's prodigy students, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Alexis Claude Clairaut. Frederick the Great of Prussia...

the de Broglie wavelength. Whenever the value of the action approaches the Planck constant, quantum effects are significant. Pierre Louis Maupertuis and...

figure of the Revolution Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet (1765–1854), fought in the American Revolutionary War Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759), French...

that the inscriptions were not of runic character. Celsius and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) visited the stone around 11 April 1737, during their...

diameter. It was named after French geodesist and mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis. Maupertuis is a member of the Vesta family (401), a giant asteroid family...

measurements near the Arctic Circle. The expedition to Meänmaa was led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis. As Swedish representative, professor Anders Celsius joined the...

stationary-action principle. Maupertuis also led the French Geodesic Mission to the Equator. Terrall also described and analyzed the way Maupertuis used literary techniques...

8 – Henry Baker, English naturalist (died 1774) July 17 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (died 1759) November 28 – Charlotta...

Maupertuis (French pronunciation: [mopɛʁtɥi]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France Communes of the Manche department...

Giovanni Domenico Maraldi Claude-Louis Mathieu Pierre Louis Maupertuis Alain Maury Victor Mauvais Pierre Méchain Jean-Claude Merlin Charles Messier François Mignard...

and technology involved some significant events. Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the Earth...

Rio de Janeiro in 1711 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759), mathematician and astronomer Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753)...

in 1773, particularly in France. Variations can be found in Maupertuis (1756), Nicolas de Condorcet (1768), Baron D'Holbach (1770), and an undated fragment...

François Nicole, Pierre Rémond de Montmort, Émilie du Châtelet and Pierre Louis Maupertuis are some of his students. He was named "associé géomètre" at the...

Maupertuis Bay (French: Baie Maupertuis) is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the south-west coastline of Kangaroo Island. It...

shortest length and least time. Building on the early work of Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Leonhard Euler, and Joseph Louis Lagrange defining versions of...

times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield,...

France. unknown date – The French mathematician and philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis moves to his final home in Basel, Switzerland. John Armstrong as...

Gottfried Zinn, German anatomist and botanist (born 1727) July 27 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (born 1698) September 10 – Ferdinand Konščak...

visitors, including luminaries like the scientist-philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis. The conversation ranged over every topic imaginable, always enlivened...

commemorate the date. Querelle de M.M. de Voltaire et de Maupertuis (1753) Correspondance secrète, et familière du chancelier de Maupeou avec Sorhouet (1771, in-12)...

German mathematician. Johann Bernoulli instructed both König and Pierre Louis Maupertuis as pupils during the same period. König is remembered largely for...

unavailable to 18th- and 19th-century minds. In the mid-1700s, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, a French scholar now known primarily for his work in mathematics...