Gilles Personne De Roberval
1602-1675
French mathematician who became a professor of mathematics at the Collège Royale in Paris, despite his peasant background. He traveled widely through France ...
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Gilles Personne de Roberval is generally considered to be the founder of kinematic geometry (a branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion) because of his discoveries about plane curves and the me...
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Gilles Personne De Roberval
Gilles Personne de Roberval