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As results of Roberval’s labours outside the department of pure mathematics may be noted a work on the system of the universe, EHandler: no quick summary.
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 GILLES PERSONNE ROBERVAL (or PERSONIER) DE - LoveToKnow Article on GILLES PERSONNE ROBERVAL (or PERSONIER) DE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
GILLES PERSONNE ROBERVAL (or PERSONIER) DE - LoveToKnow Article on GILLES PERSONNE ROBERVAL (or PERSONIER) DE GILLES PERSONNE ROBERVAL (or PERSONIER) DE (or PERSONIER) DE (1602-1675), French mathematician, was born at Roberval, near Beauvais, on the 8th of August 1602.
His name was originally Gilles Personne, that of Roberval, by which he is known, being taken from the place of his birth.
As results of Robervals labors outside the department of pure mathematics may be noted a work on the system of the universe, in which he supports the Copernican system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter; and also the invention of a special kind of balance which goes by his name.
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ROBERVAL, GILLES PERSONNE (or PERSONIER) DE (1602-1675), See also:
His name was originally Gilles Personne, that of Roberval, by which he is known, being taken from the See also:
Roberval was one of those mathematicians who, just before the invention of the infinitesimal calculus, occupied their See also:
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 Timeline of mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
1634 - Gilles de Roberval shows that the area under a cycloid is three times the area of its generating circle,
1733 - Abraham de Moivre introduces the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution in probability,
1895 - Diederik Korteweg and Gustav de Vries derive the KdV equation to describe the development of long solitary water waves in a canal of rectangular cross section,
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 Articles - 1675   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
*January 16 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d.
*October 27 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b.
*December 23 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b.
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