Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac, born at Bourg-en-Bresse, then part of the Duchy of Savoy, on 9 October 1581 and dead on 26 February 1638, was a French mathematician and poet. Orphaned by the age of six, he was looked after by the Jesuits and was a member of the order for a year around 1601, leaving because of illness. He was a pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at Rheims and wrote Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres of 1612, enlarged in 1624, Les éléments arithmétiques, and a Latin translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus, the edition in whose margin Fermat wrote his note on Fermat's Last Theorem. He also discovered means of solving indeterminate equations with continued fractions, a method of constructing magic squares and a proof of Bézout's identity.
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Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac (9 October 1581 – 26 February 1638) was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy.
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Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac (9 October 1581-26 February 1638) was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy.
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Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac (9 October 1581-26 February 1638) was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy.
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He wrote Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres, Les éléments arithmétiques, and a Latin translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus (the very translation where Fermat wrote a margin note about Fermat's Last Theorem).
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Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac (9 October 1581-26 February 1638) was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy.
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Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac (9 October 1581-26 February 1638) was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy.
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