Key facts
- Born
- 1654 ( 1654 ) , Caen , France
- Died
- 23 December 1722 (1722-12-23) (aged 67–68) , Paris , France
- Known for
- statics , mechanics , infinitesimal calculus , convergence of series , water clock , mechanical explanation of gravitation , Varignon's theorem
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Académie Royale des Sciences , Collège Royal , Collège Mazarin , Berlin Academy , Royal Society
- Doctoral advisor
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Doctoral students
- Jacques Cassini
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pierre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Caen
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Caen Normandy
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Doctoral advisor
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Field of work
- Catholic theology
- Image
- Pierre Varignon. Line engraving by E. Desrochers. Wellcome V0005993.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
- Residence
- Paris
- Religious order
- Society of Jesus
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- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Pierre Varignon
- date of birth
- 1654-00-00
- date of death
- 1722-00-00
- name in native language
- Pierre Varignon
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- Faxälven
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierre Varignon ( French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ vaʁiɲɔ̃]; 1654 – 23 December 1722) was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University of Caen, where he received his M.A. in 1682. He took Holy Orders the following year.
Varignon gained his first exposure to mathematics by reading Euclid and then Descartes' La Géométrie. He became professor of mathematics at the Collège Mazarin in Paris in 1688 and was elected to the Académie Royale des Sciences in the same year. In 1704, he held the departmental chair at Collège Mazarin and also became professor of mathematics at the Collège Royal. He was elected to the Berlin Academy in 1713 and to the Royal Society in 1718. Many of his works were published in Paris in 1725, three years after his death. His lectures at Mazarin were published in Elements de mathematique in 1731.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pierre Varignon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.