Talk:Marin Mersenne

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Could someone suggest a pronunciation for Mersenne's name, please? Thanks! HCBowman 14:35, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

It is mer-SEEN.

The correct pronunciation is not mer-SEEN: it is mayr-SENN. --82.229.209.33 22:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

According to http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Printonly/Mersenne.html, he didn't die because of complications arising from surgery, but because of a lung abscess.

[edit] Date of Harmonie Universelle

It is given at one point as 1636-7 and at another as 1627. I assume the latter is a misprint and have excised it. --Tdent 20:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why 53-ET

I don't see what is the relation of Mersenne to 53-note equal temperament. I have read the article on 53tet and Mersenne does not appear. --Tdent 20:33, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I might have done that by accident, thinking of Nicholas Mercator instead... Delete it for now. I'll check up on it. - Rainwarrior 21:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I can't find anything to that effect. I think it was a slip on my part. - Rainwarrior 23:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Descartes

It's generally regarded as untrue that Mersenne was friends with Descartes when they were going to the Jesuit school in La Fleche, so I removed, "where he was a schoolmate and friend of René Descartes."

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/Links/MathBiog.html

links to:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Mersenne.html

Also, see Descartes, an Intellectual Biography, by Stephen Gaukroger, page 38. Guywithbadusername 20:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

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