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Joseph Saurin

French mathematician · Academics · Lived 1655 to 1737 · aged 82

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.

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He was accused in 1712 by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau of being the actual author of defamatory verses that gossip had attributed to Rousseau.

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Academics
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Academic
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1655 to 1737 · aged 82