Florimond de Beaunne | |
Birth Date: | 7 October 1601 |
Birth Place: | Blois, Kingdom of France |
Death Date: | 18 August 1652 |
Death Place: | Blois, Kingdom of France |
Fields: | Mathematics |
Known For: | Proto-calculus |
Florimond de Beaune (7 October 1601, Blois - 18 August 1652, Blois) was a French jurist and mathematician, and an early follower of René Descartes.[1] R. Taton calls him "a typical example of the erudite amateurs" active in 17th-century science.
In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune posed the problem of solving the differential equation
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His Tractatus de limitibus aequationum was reprinted in England in 1807;[4] in it, he finds upper and lower bounds for the solutions to quadratic equations and cubic equations, as simple functions of the coefficients of these equations.[1] His Doctrine de l'angle solide and Inventaire de sa bibliothèque were also reprinted, in Paris in 1975.[5] Another of his writings was Notae breves, the introduction to a 1649 edition of Descartes' La Géométrie.[6]