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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (/ˌmoʊpərˈtwiː/; French: [mopɛʁtɥi]; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters...28 KB (3,194 words) - 23:17, 25 April 2024
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (/də ˈbroʊɡli/, also US: /də broʊˈɡliː, də ˈbrɔɪ/, French: [də bʁɔj] or [də bʁœj] ; 15 August 1892 – 19...35 KB (3,951 words) - 08:54, 22 April 2024- In classical mechanics, Maupertuis's principle (named after Pierre Louis Maupertuis, 1698 – 1759) states that the path followed by a physical system is...13 KB (1,725 words) - 15:10, 11 March 2024
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar and polymath whose work was...106 KB (13,186 words) - 09:45, 26 April 2024
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier; 25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813), also reported as Giuseppe...47 KB (6,141 words) - 16:46, 20 March 2024- List of French astronomers (section M)Giovanni Domenico Maraldi Claude-Louis Mathieu Pierre Louis Maupertuis Alain Maury Victor Mauvais Pierre Méchain Jean-Claude Merlin Charles Messier François...6 KB (595 words) - 01:50, 21 December 2022
- theory. Maupertuis' principle and Hamilton's principle exemplify the principle of stationary action. Scholars often credit Pierre Louis Maupertuis for formulating...19 KB (2,083 words) - 19:19, 6 March 2024
List of geodesists (section M)Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695 (Netherlands) Pierre Bouguer 1698–1758 (France & Peru) Pierre de Maupertuis 1698–1759 (France) Alexis Clairaut 1713–1765...6 KB (624 words) - 03:28, 19 March 2024- d'Insectologie (1745) and Contemplation de la nature (1732). He confirmed parthenogenesis of aphids. 1745. Pierre Louis M. de Maupertuis (French, 1698–1759) went to...56 KB (7,112 words) - 11:53, 1 May 2024
- Action (physics) (section Maupertuis's principle)are summarized below. In classical mechanics, Maupertuis's principle (named after Pierre Louis Maupertuis) states that the path followed by a physical...24 KB (3,074 words) - 22:32, 19 April 2024
diameter. It was named after French geodesist and mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis. Maupertuis is a member of the Vesta family (401), a giant asteroid family...15 KB (1,069 words) - 21:22, 14 January 2024
unavailable to 18th- and 19th-century minds. In the mid-1700s, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, a French scholar now known primarily for his work in mathematics...29 KB (3,561 words) - 11:20, 3 December 2023- List of French scientists (section M)d'Ortous de Mairan (1678–1771), geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759)...15 KB (1,643 words) - 08:55, 13 April 2024
a huge controversy among French scientists. Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairaut, and Pierre Charles Le Monnier traveled to Lapland, where...14 KB (1,825 words) - 05:08, 27 February 2024
Émilie du Châtelet (redirect from Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet)calculus. She was also tutored by Bernoulli's prodigy students, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Alexis Claude Clairaut. Frederick the Great of Prussia...51 KB (6,077 words) - 22:22, 15 April 2024- Martial Gueroult (redirect from M. Gueroult)principe de la moindre action chez Maupertuis. [Leibniz: Dynamics and Metaphysics; Followed by A Note on The Principle of Least Action in Maupertuis] Paris:...8 KB (1,032 words) - 07:59, 20 March 2023
List of lay Catholic scientists (section M)one of the founders of modern oceanography Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) – known for the Maupertuis principle and for being the first president...42 KB (4,551 words) - 17:03, 8 April 2024
commemorate the date. Querelle de M.M. de Voltaire et de Maupertuis (1753) Correspondance secrète, et familière du chancelier de Maupeou avec Sorhouet (1771,...4 KB (447 words) - 21:39, 29 April 2024
Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (category CS1 German-language sources (de))in the Universal Natural History. Within the work Kant quotes Pierre Louis Maupertuis, who discusses six bright celestial objects listed by Edmond Halley...7 KB (859 words) - 10:13, 2 May 2024- 1698: Pierre Louis Maupertuis born. 1790: Adam Smith dies. 1797: Immanuel Hermann Fichte born. 1922: Thomas Samuel Kuhn born. 1754: Antoine Destutt de Tracy...28 KB (2,957 words) - 00:15, 25 April 2024
- plane of the fixed circle, were studied by the Bernoullis, Pierre Louis M. de Maupertuis, François Nicole, Alexis Claude Clairault and others. In the
- possible in the motion of light. Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Histoire de l'Academie (1744) p. 423; Les Oeuvres De Mr. De Maupertuis (1752) vol. iv p. 17; as quoted
- the difference between the kinetic and potential energies. Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis discovered the idea of least action in 1746. He defined the