Marin Mersenne

Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne (1588–1648) was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist. Mersenne was "the center of the world of science and mathematics during the first half of the 1600s."

External links

• Marin Mersenne, JOC/EFR © August 2005.
• O’Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., “Marin Mersenne”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mersenne.html .