# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-nicole
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:52:00.192Z

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name: "François Nicole"
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description: "François Nicole was a French mathematician, born in Paris and died there, who published his Traité du calcul des différences finies in 1717; it contains rules both for forming differences and for effecting the summation of series. In 1706, he wrote a work on roulettes, particularly spherical epicycloids. In 1729 and 1731, he published memoirs on Newton's essay on curves of the third degree."
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birthDate: "1683-12-23"
deathDate: "1758-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump