Alphabetical Index Index by Birth Year
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
*1698 in Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets
+1759 in Basel
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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.
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