Pierre Varignon (1654 – 23 December 1722) was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University of Caen, where he received...
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parallelogram, called the Varignon parallelogram. It is named after Pierre Varignon, whose proof was published posthumously in 1731. The midpoints of the...
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Varignon's theorem is a theorem of French mathematician Pierre Varignon (1654–1722), published in 1687 in his book Projet d'une nouvelle mécanique. The...
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122. Costabel, Pierre; Peiffer, Jeanne (1988). Der Briefwechsel von Johann I Bernoulli", Vol. II: "Der Briefwechsel mit Pierre Varignon, Erster Teil: 1692-1702"...
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a model akin to a physical frame adapted from some ideas by Pierre Varignon (a Varignon frame), Weber applies freight rates of resources and finished...
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direction of the resultant force. Both polygons were introduced by Pierre Varignon (Nouvelle Mecanique ou Statique, 1725) and became the basis of the...
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mathematics and physics. In 1708, at the age of 24, he was nominated by Pierre Varignon (who taught him mathematics) and elected a member of the Académie des...
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are missed when one applies the methods of infinitesimal calculus. Pierre Varignon responded by pointing out that Rolle had misrepresented the curve,...
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The mathematician Pierre Varignon, whose work would influence the young Leonhard Euler, earned his M.A. from Caen in 1682. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)...
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plane curve near an inflection point. L'Hôpital exchanged ideas with Pierre Varignon and corresponded with Gottfried Leibniz, Christiaan Huygens, and Jacob...
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