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See also: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
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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
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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
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The Revolution deprived him of his income and See also:left him in great destitution
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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
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In 1778 he re-edited Jacques See also:Ozanam's Recreations mathematiques, after-wards published in See also:English by See also: |
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