Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac [SEP] place of death
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (9 October 1581 – 26 February 1638) was a French mathematician, linguist, poet and classics scholar born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy.
Bachet was a pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at the Jesuit College in Rheims. They became close friends.
Bachet wrote the "Problèmes plaisants", of which the first edition was issued in 1612, a second and enlarged edition was brought out in
Gaspard
Gaspard is a Francophone male given name or family name, and may refer to:
People.
People Given name.
- Gaspard II Schetz, Lord of Grobbendonk
- Gaspard Abeille (1648–1718), French poet
- Gaspard André (1840–1896), French architect
- Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581–1638), French mathematician
- Gaspard Bauhin (1560–1624), Swiss botanist
- Gaspard Laurent Bayle (1774–1816), French physician
- Gaspard Bobek (1593–1635), Croatian Roman Catholic prelate