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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

problematis a R.P. Marino Mersenne Minimo propositi ... [Solution to a problem proposed by the reverend father Marin Mersenne, member of the Minim order...

(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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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...

Pierre de Fermat, Blaise Pascal, Christiaan Huygens, Galileo Galilei, Marin Mersenne, Evangelista Torricelli and René Descartes. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson...

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

from Francis of Paola.[citation needed] Gaspar de Bono (1530–1604) Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) Emmanuel Maignan (1601–1676) Jean François Niceron (1613–1646)...

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...

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...

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...