Antoine de Laloubère, also written Lalouvère, was a French Jesuit mathematician, born on 24 August 1600 at Rieux-Volvestre in Languedoc into an aristocratic family and dying at Toulouse on 2 September 1664. He entered the Society of Jesus in Toulouse in 1620, was ordained around 1631 or 1632 and taught humanities, rhetoric, theology, Hebrew and mathematics at the Jesuit college there. His main work, Quadratura circuli of 1651, calculates volumes and centres of gravity by inverting a rule of Paul Guldin, which places him among the forerunners of integral calculus alongside Cavalieri, Fermat, Kepler and Torricelli. He was the first to study the properties of the helix. In 1658 a dispute with Blaise Pascal over the cycloid led him to publish in 1660 his seven books on the cycloid, though the solution he sent Pascal was faulty.
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de Laloubère, also Lalouvère and other forms, (24 August 1600 – 2 September 1664), a Jesuit, born in Languedoc (Rieux-Volvestre, where his family had a castle), is chiefly known for an incorrect solution of Pascal's problems on the cycloid, which he
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de Laloubère, also Lalouvère and other forms, (24 August 1600-2 September 1664), a Jesuit, born in Languedoc (Rieux-Volvestre, where his family had a castle), is chiefly known for an incorrect solution of Pascal's problems on the cycloid, which he
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de Laloubère, also Lalouvère and other forms, (24 August 1600-2 September 1664), a Jesuit, born in Languedoc (Rieux-Volvestre, where his family had a castle), is chiefly known for an incorrect solution of Pascal's problems on the cycloid, which he
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and other forms, (24 August 1600-2 September 1664), a Jesuit, born in Languedoc (Rieux-Volvestre, where his family had a castle), is chiefly known for an incorrect solution of Pascal's problems on the cycloid, which he gave in 1660, but he has a better
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he has a better claim to distinction in having been the first mathematician to study the properties of the
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With Cavalieri, Fermat, Vincentio, Kepler, Torricelli and Valerio, Lalouvere can be considered one of the forerunners of modern integral calculus.
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