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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • singer Marin Mema (born 1981), Albanian journalist Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist Marin Morrison...
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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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  • 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...
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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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    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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    mota (1658), Casati imagines a dialogue among Guldin, Galileo, and Marin Mersenne on various intellectual problems of cosmology, geography, astronomy...
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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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    Perfect number (category Mersenne primes)
    − 1 {\displaystyle 2^{p}-1} are known as Mersenne primes, after the seventeenth-century monk Marin Mersenne, who studied number theory and perfect numbers...
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    problematis a R.P. Marino Mersenne Minimo propositi ... [Solution to a problem proposed by the reverend father Marin Mersenne, member of the Minim order...
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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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  • Danica McKellar (actress) Anderson Gray McKendrick (medical doctor) Marin Mersenne (theologian) George Phillips Odom Jr. (artist) B. Nicolò I. Paganini...
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  • 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...
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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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    from Francis of Paola.[citation needed] Gaspar de Bono (1530–1604) Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) Emmanuel Maignan (1601–1676) Jean François Niceron (1613–1646)...
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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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    needed] This work was taken further by Marin Mersenne, who formulated the current law of vibrating strings. Mersenne was only three years old when Vincenzo...
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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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