About Alexis Fontaine des Bertins
Lived 1704 – 1771 (aged 67). Alexis Fontaine des Bertins was a French mathematician.
Alexis Fontaine, known as Alexis Fontaine des Bertins (13 August 1704 – 21 August 1771) was a French mathematician. He was a patron and teacher of Jean-Jacques de Marguerie.
Life Fontaine was born in Claveyson, Dauphiné. He first got a taste for maths by reading the Géométrie de l'infini of Fontenelle and gave solutions to the problems of the tautochrone curve, the brachistochrone curve and orthogonal trajectories. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1733. He died, aged 67, in Cuiseaux.
Publications Mémoires donnés à l'Académie royale des sciences, non imprimés dans leur temps (1764) Traité de calcul différentiel et intégral, par M. Fontaine, de l'Académie royale des sciences, pour servir de suite aux mémoires de la même Académie (1770)
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French mathematician (1704-1771)
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Alexis Fontaine des Bertins was born on 13 August 1704 in Claveyson.
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Alexis Fontaine des Bertins died on 21 August 1771 in Cuiseaux.
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