Alphabetical Index
Index by Year of Birth
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
*1698 in Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets
+1759 in Basel
Pierre Louis Maupertuis was a French mathematician,
philosopher and man of letters.
He invented invented the principle of least action,
and made an expedition to Lapland to determine the shape of the
Earth.
Charles Marie de la Condamine
2016 J. Giesen