Joseph Saurin was a French mathematician and a converted Protestant minister, born at Courthézon on 1 September 1659 and dying in Paris on 29 December 1737. He was the first to show how the tangents at the multiple points of curves could be determined by mathematical analysis. In 1712 he was accused by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau of being the actual author of defamatory verses that gossip had attributed to Rousseau. He was the father of Bernard-Joseph Saurin.
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Joseph Saurin (1 September 1659, in Courthézon – 29 December 1737, in Paris) was a French mathematician and a converted Protestant minister.
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Biography Joseph Saurin was educated at home, being brought up as a Calvinist by his father, Pierre Saurin, who was a Calvinist minister.
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Joseph Saurin (1 September 1659, in Courthézon, 29 December 1737, in Paris) was a French mathematician and a converted Protestant minister.
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He was the first to show how the tangents at the multiple points of curves could be determined by mathematical analysis.
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