Jean Prestet (1648–1690) was a French Oratorian priest and mathematician who contributed to the fields of combinatorics and number theory. Prestet grew...
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Éléments des mathématiques by the French Oratorian priest and mathematician Jean Prestet and a short treatise on games of chance, De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae...
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the number of multiset permutations when one element can be repeated. Jean Prestet published a general rule for multiset permutations in 1675. John Wallis...
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number theory. The generalization of the lemma to integers appeared in Jean Prestet's textbook Nouveaux Elémens de Mathématiques in 1681. In Carl Friedrich...
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politician (b. 1643) François Tortebat, French engraver (b. 1616) June 8 – Jean Prestet, French priest and mathematician (b. 1648) June 11 – Frederik Bloemaert...
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politician (b. 1643) François Tortebat, French engraver (b. 1616) June 8 – Jean Prestet, French priest and mathematician (b. 1648) June 11 – Frederik Bloemaert...
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7–13. See in particular the entries for Stevin, Brancker, Wallis, and Prestet. Caldwell et al. 2012, pp. 6-7. Caldwell et al. 2012, p. 15. Caldwell,...
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