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Gilles de Roberval
French mathematician (1602–1675)
Gilles Personne de Roberval (August 10, 1602 – October 27, 1675), Frenchmathematician, was born at Roberval near Beauvais, France.
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His name was originally Gilles Personne or Gilles Personier, with Roberval the place of his birth.[1]
Biography
Like René Descartes, he was present at the Siege of La Rochelle in 1627.
In the same year he went to Paris, and in 1631 he was appointed the philosophy chair at Gervais College, Paris. In 1634,[2] he was also made the chair of mathematics at the Royal College of France. A condition of tenure attached to this particular chair was that the holder (Roberval, in this case) would propose mathematical questions for solution, and should resign in favour of any person who solved them better than himself.
Notwithstanding this, Roberval was able to keep the chair until his death.
Roberval was one of those mathematicians who, just before the invention of the infinitesim