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JEAN ETIENNE MONTUCLA (1725-1799)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:ETIENNE See also:MONTUCLA (1725-1799)  , See also:French mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Lyons on the 5th of See also:September 1725 . In 1754 he published an See also:anonymous See also:treatise entitled Histoire See also:des recherches sur la See also:quadrature du cercle, and in 1758 the first See also:part of his See also:great See also:work, Histoire des mathematiques, the first See also:history of See also:mathematics worthy of the name . He was appointed See also:intendant-secretary of See also:Grenoble in 1758, secretary to the expedition for colonizing See also:Cayenne in 1764, and " premier commis des batiments " and See also:censor-royal for mathematical books in 1765 . The Revolution deprived him of his income and See also:left him in great destitution . The offer in 1795 of a mathematical See also:chair in one of the See also:schools of See also:Paris was declined on See also:account of his infirm See also:health, and he was still in straitened cirumstances in 1798, when he published a second edition of the first part of his Histoire . In 1778 he re-edited Jacques See also:Ozanam's Recreations mathematiques, after-wards published in See also:English by See also:Charles See also:Hutton (4 vols., See also:London, 1803) . He died on the 18th of See also:December 1799 . His Histoire was completed by J . J . Le F. de See also:Lalande, and published at Paris in 1799-1802 (4 vols.) .

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