Nicolas Guisnée
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Nicolas Guisnée (died 2 September 1718) was a French mathematician.
Life
He studied mathematics with Nicolas Malebranche and was a protégé of Guillaume de l'Hôpital.
Engineer of the king, he was a royal professor of mathematics at the college of maître Gervais. François Nicole, Pierre Rémond de Montmort, Émilie du Châtelet and Pierre Louis Maupertuis are some of his students.[1]
He was named "associé géomètre" at the Royal Academy of Sciences on 15 January 1707.[2] He died in Paris.
Works
- Guisnée, Nicolas (1733). Application de l'algebre a la geometrie (in French). Paris: Gabriel-François Quillau.
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