Marin Mersenne, OM (also known as Marinus Mersennus or le Père Mersenne; French: [maʁɛ̃ mɛʁsɛn]; 8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath...

number of the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century. If...

by French mathematician and music theorist Marin Mersenne in his 1636 work Harmonie universelle. Mersenne's laws govern the construction and operation...

after the friar Marin Mersenne, are prime numbers that can be expressed as 2p − 1 for some positive integer p. For example, 3 is a Mersenne prime as it is...

obediently following divine instructions to learn, not by one's logic. Marin Mersenne was an author, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. He wrote in...

Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan...

singer Marin Mema (born 1981), Albanian journalist Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist Marin Morrison...

Fermat numbers 2 2 n + 1 {\displaystyle 2^{2^{n}}+1} , and Marin Mersenne studied the Mersenne primes, prime numbers of the form 2 p − 1 {\displaystyle...

19th century and at least one author reports credit being given to Marin Mersenne. Beginning with the work of Moritz Cantor and Siegmund Günther, scholars...

of the pendulum, Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum. Marin Mersenne and René Descartes had discovered around 1636 that the pendulum was...