Jean-Jacques de Marguerie is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Jean-Jacques de Marguerie as French mathematician.
Jean-Jacques de Marguerie was born at Mondeville in 1742. His recorded nationality is France.
This was the age of analysis, when the calculus was pushed hard and its foundations were not yet secure.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
The honours record reads: Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis.
That the work was done from France matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Jean-Jacques de Marguerie died in 1779, aged 37. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis
