# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-bertrand-castel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:29:35.585Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-bertrand-castel"
name: "Louis Bertrand Castel"
slug: "louis-bertrand-castel"
description: "Louis Bertrand Castel was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, who entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy. After moving from Toulouse to Paris in 1720, at the behest of Bernard de Fontenelle, Castel acted as the science editor of the Jesuit Journal de Trévoux."
tagline: "Mathematician, philosopher"
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birthDate: "1688-11-15"
deathDate: "1757-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump