Jean-Étienne Montucla
French mathematician and historian
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Jean-Étienne Montucla was a French mathematician and historian.
Montucla was born at Lyon, France.
Career
In 1754 he published an anonymous treatise on quadrature, Histoire des recherches sur la quadrature du cercle. Wikipedia
Born: September 5, 1725, Lyon, France
Died: December 18, 1799 (age 74 years), Versailles, France