Pierre Louis Maupertuis
French mathematician and philosopher
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the... Wikipedia
Born: 1698, Saint-Malo, France
Died: July 27, 1759 (age 61 years), Basel, Switzerland
Known for: Principle of least action, precursor of transmutation
Influenced: Leonhard Euler, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and Immanuel Kant
Parents: René Moreau de Maupertuis
Books
Essai De Cosmologie
1750
Essai de Philosophie morale. By Maupertuis
1749
Earthly Venus
The figure of the earth, determined from observations made by order of the French king, at the Polar Circle
1738
An Examination Of Dr. Burnet's Theory Of The Earth: With Some Remarks On Mr. Whiston's New Theory Of The Earth. Also An Examination Of The Reflections On The Theory Of The Earth, And A Defence Of The Remarks On Mr. Whiston's New Theory