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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 17 July 1698, 28 September 1698
- Died
- 27 July 1759
- Place of birth
- Saint-Malo
- Place of death
- Basel
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Pierre-Louis
- Family name
- Moreau
- Field of work
- mathematics, mechanics, astronomy, geodesy, biology
- Occupation
- astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, naturalist, military personnel
- Position held
- seat 8 of the Académie française, president
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- Catholicism
- archives at
- Berlin State Library
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, BEIC Digital Library, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8
- doctoral advisor
- Johann Bernoulli
- doctoral student
- Pierre Charles Le Monnier
- educated at
- Collège de la Marche, University of Basel
- employer
- Musketeers of the Guard, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- influenced by
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- member of
- Académie Française, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Académie de Stanislas (Nancy, France)
- name in native language
- Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
- place of burial
- Saint-Roch, Paris
- significant person
- Anders Celsius
- student
- Émilie du Châtelet
- work location
- Tornio
- writing language
- French
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