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...

parallelogram, called the Varignon parallelogram. It is named after Pierre Varignon, whose proof was published posthumously in 1731. The midpoints of the...

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...

122. Costabel, Pierre; Peiffer, Jeanne (1988). Der Briefwechsel von Johann I Bernoulli", Vol. II: "Der Briefwechsel mit Pierre Varignon, Erster Teil: 1692-1702"...

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...

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...

are missed when one applies the methods of infinitesimal calculus. Pierre Varignon responded by pointing out that Rolle had misrepresented the curve,...

direction of the resultant force. Both polygons were introduced by Pierre Varignon (Nouvelle Mecanique ou Statique, 1725) and became the basis of the...

plane curve near an inflection point. L'Hôpital exchanged ideas with Pierre Varignon and corresponded with Gottfried Leibniz, Christiaan Huygens, and Jacob...

However, recognizable Cremona diagrams appeared as early as 1725, in Pierre Varignon's posthumously published work, Nouvelle Méchanique ou Statique. In the...

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...

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...

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)...

plane, thereby degenerating into a quadrilateral, Varignon's theorem, named after Pierre Varignon, states the following: Let a quadrilateral in R 2 {\displaystyle...

Faille, Paul Guldin, John Wallis, Christiaan Huygens, Louis Carré, Pierre Varignon, and Alexis Clairaut expanded the concept further. Newton's second...

developed ways to find volumes and centers of gravity of solid bodies Pierre Varignon (1654–1722) – priest and mathematician whose principle contributions...

explicitly".: 54  He demonstrated the resolution of forces before Pierre Varignon, which had not been remarked previously, even though it is a simple...

{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...

film director Seb Toussaint (born 1988), street artist and painter Pierre Varignon (1654–1722), mathematician; he invented the U-tube manometer. Estienne...

their alternative name, reciprocal spirals, can be used instead. Pierre Varignon first studied the hyperbolic spiral in 1704, as an example of the polar...

included (Cum Prodiisset). In a 1702 letter to French mathematician Pierre Varignon subtitled “Justification of the Infinitesimal Calculus by that of Ordinary...

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...

Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French general and diplomat (b. 1602) 1722 – Pierre Varignon, French mathematician and academic (b. 1654) 1761 – Alastair Ruadh...

1652) December 20 – Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654) December 23 – Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) "Silence Dogood, No. 1, 2 April 1722"...

the 1725 introduction of the force polygon and funicular polygon by Pierre Varignon. Giovanni Poleni used the graphical calculations (and Robert Hooke's...

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...

a major contribution in study of optics and refraction of light. Pierre Varignon invents the U-tube manometer, a device capable of measuring rarefaction...

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...

zero. This principle was developed by Johann Bernoulli in a letter to Pierre Varignon in 1715, but never separately published.: 23  Cornelius Lanczos uses...

Brunswick-Lüneburg in hopes of a reunification between Catholicism and Lutheranism. Pierre Varignon (1654–1722): French mathematician and Catholic priest known for his...