Marin Mersenne, OM (also known as Marinus Mersennus or le Père Mersenne; French: [maʁɛ̃ mɛʁsɛn]; 8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath...

number of the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century. If...

after the friar Marin Mersenne, are prime numbers that can be expressed as 2p − 1 for some positive integer p. For example, 3 is a Mersenne prime as it is...

by French mathematician and music theorist Marin Mersenne in his 1636 work Harmonie universelle. Mersenne's laws govern the construction and operation...

obediently following divine instructions to learn, not by one's logic. Marin Mersenne was an author, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. He wrote in...

a power of two minus one. The original, called Mersenne's conjecture, was a statement by Marin Mersenne in his Cogitata Physico-Mathematica (1644; see...

Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan...

Fermat numbers 2 2 n + 1 {\displaystyle 2^{2^{n}}+1} , and Marin Mersenne studied the Mersenne primes, prime numbers of the form 2 p − 1 {\displaystyle...

of the pendulum, Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum. Marin Mersenne and René Descartes had discovered around 1636 that the pendulum was...

del Monte, Adriaan van Roomen, Florence Rivault, Francesco Buonamici, Marin Mersenne, and Galileo Galilei. That said, why was the word momentum chosen for...

singer Marin Mema (born 1981), Albanian journalist Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist Marin Morrison...

19th century and at least one author reports credit being given to Marin Mersenne. Beginning with the work of Moritz Cantor and Siegmund Günther, scholars...

universelle, contenant la théorie et la pratique de la musique) is a work by Marin Mersenne, published in Paris in 1636. It represented the sum of musical knowledge...

Armogathe ISBN 978-88-452-3422-4. René Descartes, Isaac Beeckman, Marin Mersenne. Lettere 1619–1648, Milano, Bompiani, 2015 pp. 1696. Edizione integrale...

a regular debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by Marin Mersenne. Hobbes's first area of study was an interest in the physical doctrine...

several Jew's harps of various sizes, a curious harmony is produced. — Marin Mersenne, Harmonie Universelle (1636) There are many theories for the origin...

(d. 1591) Marin Mersenne, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1648). In one of his letters R. Descartes writes to Mersenne that he wants...

medicine in his native town and corresponded with René Descartes and Marin Mersenne. He discovered that the weight of lead and tin increases when they are...

Charles Maurras Quentin Meillassoux René Ménil Maurice Merleau-Ponty Marin Mersenne Jean Meslier Régis Messac Émile Meyerson Gaston Milhaud Jean-Claude...

clear and distinct ideas. The first person to raise this criticism was Marin Mersenne, in the "Second Set of Objections" to the Meditations: You are not yet...

of n = 3 as challenges to his mathematical correspondents, such as Marin Mersenne, Blaise Pascal, and John Wallis, he never posed the general case. Moreover...

attempts to measure the speed of sound accurately, including attempts by Marin Mersenne in 1630 (1,380 Parisian feet per second), Pierre Gassendi in 1635 (1...

the work of Johannes de Sacrobosco, and in the 1640s, French polymath Marin Mersenne published large (but not entirely correct) tables of factorials, up...

Starrie Booke of Heaven. Gaffarel contributed to the debate between Marin Mersenne and Robert Fludd. On the other hand, the Sorbonne rejected Gaffarel's...

mota (1658), Casati imagines a dialogue among Guldin, Galileo, and Marin Mersenne on various intellectual problems of cosmology, geography, astronomy...

− 1 {\displaystyle 2^{p}-1} are known as Mersenne primes, after the seventeenth-century monk Marin Mersenne, who studied number theory and perfect numbers...

and his brother Constantijn, Gottfried Leibniz, René Descartes and Marin Mersenne. He became a member of French Academy of Sciences in 1678, upon the...

the Grenoble IDEX. The Centre Mersenne is named after Marin Mersenne. Some academic journals published by Centre Mersenne: Algebraic Combinatorics Annales...

Torricelli and the participants in the Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and Blaise Pascal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands;...

No reference or allusion to the quotation is found there. In 1634, Marin Mersenne quoted the expression in his Questions harmoniques: ... comme l'on dit...