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- 1Birthday of Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac remembered●French mathematician Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, born OTD in 1581, translated Diophantus' Arithmetica from Greek
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, the French mathematician born on this day in 1581, is being commemorated for his landmark translation of Diophantus' Arithmetica from Greek into Latin. That translation later helped European scholars, including Fermat, engage with ancient number theory. Posts marking the anniversary also nod to his connection with Burgundy, France, his home region.