Pierre Varignon was a French mathematician who worked on graphical statics and mechanics. He was born in Caen, France in 1654 and died in Paris on 23 December 1722. His proof of the statement that the midpoints of the sides of any quadrilateral form a parallelogram was published after his death, in 1731, and carries his name as Varignon's theorem, and he helped bring Leibniz's calculus into French mechanics.
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Born 1654 Caen, France
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Pierre Varignon was a French mathematician who worked on graphical statics and mechanics.
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It is named after Pierre Varignon, whose proof was published posthumously in 1731.
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