Timeline for Problem of Mouton
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| Dec 4, 2010 at 14:08 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 13:38 | comment | added | robin girard | If it is un problem de moutons (sheep) then it can be anything... it's like a bath problem... | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 13:37 | comment | added | robin girard | If it is Mouton's problem it is about finding a common metric system to measure distances between towns on earth. | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 9:37 | comment | added | Gjergji Zaimi | I found an old article mentioning "Mouton's problem", but as Gerry mentions it's not related to number theory, more so to interpolation theory and finite differences. | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 9:20 | history | edited | Franz Lemmermeyer |
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| Aug 17, 2010 at 9:19 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | I have the suspicion that this is not about the problem of Mouton, but rather the "probleme de mouton". google and a French dictionary will help -) | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 3:59 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I note the number-theory tag - do you have some reason to think this is a problem in Number Theory? There is a brief biography of Mouton at www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Mouton.html which mentions interpolation, measurement, and tables, but I see no Number Theory. | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 1:16 | comment | added | Will Jagy | aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html $$ $$ Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694) *SB *W Gaspard Clair François Marie Rich de Prony (1755-1839) MacTutor $$ $$ *SB: Mathematicians noted *SB have entries in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 15 volumes. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie. Scribner, New York, 1970-1978, with later additions. $$ $$ *W: Mathematicians noted *W have biographies compiled by Richard S. Westfall, Professor Emeritus in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, and appear in theCatalogue of the Scientific Community, | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 1:03 | comment | added | Will Jagy | Found this, mentions three out of four people but not Haros. realroleplaying.com/rmsmf/… | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 0:45 | comment | added | Will Jagy | Do you have full names and years of birth/death for some of these people? | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 0:37 | history | asked | Scott Guthery | CC BY-SA 2.5 |