Joseph Privat de Molières is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Joseph Privat de Molières as French physicist and mathematician.
Joseph Privat de Molières was born at Tarascon in 1676. His recorded nationality is France.
The seventeenth century produced the calculus and with it a dispute over priority that shaped mathematics for a century.
His academic posts were held at Collège de France.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from France matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Joseph Privat de Molières died in 1742, aged 66. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at Collège de France
