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MONTUCLA, JEAN ETIENNE (1725-1799)

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MONTUCLA, See also:JEAN See also:ETIENNE (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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