In the history of mathematics, Thomas Fantet de Lagny is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Thomas Fantet de Lagny as French mathematician.
Thomas Fantet de Lagny was born at Lyon in 1660. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at Fénelon - La Trinité School and University of Toulouse (1896-1968).
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 French Academy of Sciences, House of Noailles and Arsenal de Rochefort.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
That the work was done from France matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Thomas Fantet de Lagny died in 1734, aged 74. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at French Academy of Sciences, House of Noailles and Arsenal de Rochefort
- Fields: mathematics
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