Jean Paul de Gua de Malves (1713, Malves-en-Minervois (Aude) – June 2, 1785, Paris) was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical...

In mathematics, De Gua's theorem is a three-dimensional analog of the Pythagorean theorem named after Jean Paul de Gua de Malves. It states that if a tetrahedron...

resume the project of translating the English Cyclopaedia that Jean Paul de Gua de Malves could not successfully complete. Diderot undertook the history...

of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia of 1728. He initially chose Jean Paul de Gua de Malves as his editor, but he tired of the job after two years, and in...

the Pythagorean theorem to three dimensions is de Gua's theorem, named for Jean Paul de Gua de Malves: If a tetrahedron has a right angle corner (like...

involved some significant events. Jean Paul de Gua de Malves publishes his work of analytic geometry, Usages de l'analyse de Descartes pour découvrir, sans...

Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (born 1717) June 2 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (born 1713) November 16 – Johan Gottschalk...

demonstrates what is today known as De Gua's theorem. The polemics with Jean Paul de Gua de Malves was granted because de Gua was published an other demonstration...

(died 1781) Anthony Addington, English physician (died 1790) Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (died 1785) April 29 (bur.) – Francis Hauksbee...

settled on the mathematician Jean Paul de Gua de Malves. Among those hired by Malves were the young Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and...