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Grégoire de Saint-Vincent
Belgian Jesuit and mathematician (1584–1667) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (French pronunciation: [ɡʁeɡwaʁ də sɛ̃ vɛ̃sɑ̃]) - in Latin : Gregorius a Sancto Vincentio, in Dutch : Gregorius van St-Vincent - (8 September 1584 Bruges – 5 June 1667 Ghent) was a Flemish Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola.
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Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series."[1]: 136 He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum.[1]: 137