# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-saurin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:07:27.170Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-saurin"
name: "Joseph Saurin"
slug: "joseph-saurin"
description: "Joseph Saurin was a French mathematician and a converted Protestant minister. He was the first to show how the tangents at the multiple points of curves could be determined by mathematical analysis. He was accused in 1712 by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau of being the actual author of defamatory verses that gossip had attributed to Rousseau."
tagline: "French mathematician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1655-09-01"
deathDate: "1737-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.53
  momentum:             4.038461538461539
  historical:           6.135961333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Saurin"
    title: "Joseph Saurin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "چوزيف سورين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Saurin"
    title: "Joseph Saurin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Saurin"
    title: "Joseph Saurin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Saurin"
    title: "Joseph Saurin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Saurin"
    title: "Joseph Saurin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Saurin"
    title: "Joseph Saurin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q501936"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump