# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claude-gaspar-bachet-de-meziriac
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:01:56.088Z

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name: "Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac"
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description: "Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy. He wrote Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres, Les éléments arithmétiques, and a Latin translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus. He also discovered means of solving indeterminate equations using continued fractions, a method of constructing magic squares, and a proof of Bézout's identity."
tagline: "French mathematician (1581-1638)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
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birthDate: "1581-10-09"
deathDate: "1638-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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