Alexis Fontaine, known as Alexis Fontaine des Bertins (13 August 1704 to 21 August 1771), was a French mathematician, born at Claveyson in Dauphiné. He first took a liking to mathematics by reading Fontenelle's Géométrie de l'infini, and he gave solutions to the problems of the tautochrone curve, the brachistochrone curve and orthogonal trajectories. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1733 and died at Cuiseaux at the age of sixty seven. He was a patron and teacher of Jean-Jacques de Marguerie.
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