Charles-Benjamin de Lubières worked in mathematics at a period when the field's own foundations were under discussion.
The record lists Charles-Benjamin de Lubières as Genevan mathematician and writer.
Charles-Benjamin de Lubières was born at Berlin in 1714. His recorded nationality is Republic of Geneva.
This was the age of analysis, when the calculus was pushed hard and its foundations were not yet secure.
A theorem is permanent in a way no experiment can be, which raises the standard for entry.
That the work was done from Republic of Geneva matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Charles-Benjamin de Lubières died in 1790, aged 76. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
