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...
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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...
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by French mathematician and music theorist Marin Mersenne in his 1636 work Harmonie universelle. Mersenne's laws govern the construction and operation...
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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...
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obediently following divine instructions to learn, not by one's logic. Marin Mersenne was an author, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. He wrote in...
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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...
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Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan...
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singer Marin Mema (born 1981), Albanian journalist Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist Marin Morrison...
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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...
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of the pendulum, Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum. Marin Mersenne and René Descartes had discovered around 1636 that the pendulum was...
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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...
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the Grenoble IDEX. The Centre Mersenne is named after Marin Mersenne. Some academic journals published by Centre Mersenne: Algebraic Combinatorics Annales...
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Armogathe ISBN 978-88-452-3422-4. René Descartes, Isaac Beeckman, Marin Mersenne. Lettere 1619–1648, Milano, Bompiani, 2015 pp. 1696. Edizione integrale...
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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...
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del Monte, Adriaan van Roomen, Florence Rivault, Francesco Buonamici, Marin Mersenne, and Galileo Galilei. That said, why was the word momentum chosen for...
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several Jew's harps of various sizes, a curious harmony is produced. — Marin Mersenne, Harmonie Universelle (1636) There are many theories for the origin...
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(d. 1591) Marin Mersenne, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1648). In one of his letters R. Descartes writes to Mersenne that he wants...
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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...
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Pierre de Fermat, Blaise Pascal, Christiaan Huygens, Galileo Galilei, Marin Mersenne, Evangelista Torricelli and René Descartes. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson...
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Charles Maurras Quentin Meillassoux René Ménil Maurice Merleau-Ponty Marin Mersenne Jean Meslier Régis Messac Émile Meyerson Gaston Milhaud Jean-Claude...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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mota (1658), Casati imagines a dialogue among Guldin, Galileo, and Marin Mersenne on various intellectual problems of cosmology, geography, astronomy...
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Torricelli and the participants in the Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and Blaise Pascal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands;...
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the work of Johannes de Sacrobosco, and in the 1640s, French polymath Marin Mersenne published large (but not entirely correct) tables of factorials, up...
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with the natural philosophers and theologians of the day, including Marin Mersenne and Johann Amos Comenius; he facilitated introductions and further collaborations...
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repeated and perfected Torricelli's experiment after hearing about it from Marin Mersenne, who himself had been shown the experiment by Torricelli toward the...
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Mandore (instrument) (section According to Mersenne)
rose, either carved directly into the soundboard or glued in. From Marin Mersenne, 1635: A musician plays the mandore "with the finger or the tip of a...
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7-limit tuning systems. Those considering 7 to be consonant include Marin Mersenne, Giuseppe Tartini, Leonhard Euler, François-Joseph Fétis, J. A. Serre...
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