Bernard Lamy (mathematician)

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Bernard Lamy (June 15, 1640, in Le Mans, France – January 29, 1715, in Rouen, France) was a French mathematician.

After studying in Le Mans, he went to join the Maison d'Institution in Paris, and to Saumur thereafter. Lamy became professor of classics at Vendome in 1661, and at Juilly in 1663. His best known work is the Traité de Mécanique (1679), showing the parallelogram of forces. He also wrote Traité de la grandeur en general (1680) and Les éléments de géometrie (1685). Lamy moved to Paris, but had to leave after publishing some scandalous theological work, and moved to Rouen in 1690.

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  • O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Bernard Lamy". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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